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The first album we did was entitled The Last song in Abbey Road. Recording in the Beatles Studio in Abbey Road studio 2. Was the best studio we have worked in and an occasion we will remember all our lives. The actual ambience and natural acoustics in this studio are by far the very best we had heard an just to have recorded in the place the Fab Four had done it all was a unique and unforgettable experience. Walking in and seeing they still had all the original tape machines and Mrs Mills old upright piano that recorded ‘Lady Madonna’, we sat down at the Steinway Grand and played ‘Long and Winding Road‘ David Paton who plays bass and produces me had worked at Abbey Road many times before in the 70’s and had Alan Parsons as his engineer, in fact he recorded a No.1 song ‘January’ which he also wrote. He then went on to play with Macca on Mull of Kintyre, then Elton John for 8 years.
On one of the tracks on the Last song in Abbey Road track, ‘I don’t know why’ I hired a quartet of string players from The LSO who came in an palyed the song perfectly first time. On this album we tried not to copy the Beatles (which is impossible) but to keep the feel of all the great melodies from they once created there. The biggest musical love of my life has always been ‘The Beatles’ that is why I decided to write and sing, not to copy the Fab four, but to celebrate the overall sound and good feeling they gave in their music. In all my songs I try to make them sound as if they have the ambience and good melodies of the great songs written in the back then. You will understand this being a writer as we all strive to get the best results, the music being the real reward.