Lady Madonna
(John Lennon, Paul McCartney)

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Lady Madonna, children at your breast,

wonder how you manage to feed the rest ......

The Facts:
                Producer: George Martin
                Engineer: Ken Scott (3 February), Geoff Emerick (6 February)

The principal product of a brief flurry of recording activity in February 1968, just before the Beatles took off for India to study Transcendental Meditation, Lady Madonna became the Beatles' follow-up single on Hello, Goddbye, issued in March and, as usual, a worldwide number one.
This is a unique remix of some of the different takes and sounds that comprised the master, encompassing Take 3 (the basic track of piano and drums with overdubs of guitar, bass, vocals and more drums) from 3 February and a "reduction" of this called Take 4, also with overdubs (particularly saxes), from 6 February.
                          

© 1996 Apple Corps. Ltd under exlusive license of EMI Records Ltd.