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“They walk out onto the crossing, into history”

EACH afternoon for weeks as his band neared its desolate end, Paul McCartney entered Abbey Road studios with a commuter’s punctuality and commenced a daily ritual. “Paul slaved over getting ‘Oh! Darling’’s vocal right,” reveals assistant engineer Alan Parsons. “He was really screaming it, so he couldn’t do it more than a couple of times a day. He used

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