Title: When I'm Sixty-Four Sgt. Peppers Loneley Hearts Club Band
Credits: John Lennon, Paul McCartney
Recorded: EMI Studios, London, 6 December 1966
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Geoff Emerick
Location: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - track 9

The first album track to be completed, When I'm Sixty-four was wrapped up ten days before the end of 1966. The song had been written by Paul some years previously - the Beatles had performed it acoustically in the Cavern Club when their amplifiers broke down; now newly revived and suitably polished, recordings began on 6 December 1966, while Strawberry Fields Forever was on the boil and before Penny Lane was begun. Three clarinettists were brought in on 21 December to augment the Beatles' own instrumentation, then - like Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - the song was speeded up quite considerably during remixing.

Time

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1:05 Left channel: Paul can be heard to sing "um um" along with the other instruments,
this may have been to emphasize the beat
2:24 Left channel: When Paul sings "Will you still.." an edit into "will" can be heard.
2:28 LEft channel: The edit seems to have been placed between 2:24 and ends here
with Paul singing "When I'm sixty four/ ye Hoo!"
2:37 A faint whistle can be heard right at the end of the track before if cut to the next song.



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