1. The BeatlesAbbey Road
I came across that when we were all on a family holiday and we just played it the whole trip. I think it was around the time I was ten or 11, and we just played it constantly. It may have been around the time we had changed from tapes to CDs, and so my parents were re-buying stuff they had on vinyl. I don’t remember thinking at the time that they all flowed into each other – [sings various clips] – but I know every bit of that album though, every hook and drum fill. It was so varied yet so cohesive, and I think a lot of that was down to George Martin. I’d never heard anything like it, and even at that age I was blown away by it.
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