23-07-2021, 06:10
(23-07-2021, 02:12)JeromeD Wrote: What on earth possessed McCartney to go and record in Nigeria? And so soon after their civil war too. Nuts.
he wanted to record somewhere other than Abbey Road Studios and was looking through the list of EMI studios around the world.
Lagos was on the list and he thought it sounded 'exotic'....
when the band got there, the studio was a shell, no sound proofing, no glass, half the roof/ceilings werent installed etc, it was a constrution site...
as i mentioned he was walking through the city at night with the 'master tapes' of the album and was robbed at knifepoint, the tapes were never recovered, McCartney says they were probably after cash in the briefcase and discarded the tapes not knowing what they were.
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They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.