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The sun jumped off the bright white snow and illuminated the whole bedroom 

as John Lennon woke up to the sound of the doorbell ringing. Annoyed, he 

shuffled out of bed and opened to the door to see his band mates Paul 

McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr cheerily standing on the porch. 

Paul happily said good morning, stepped inside the house with the others and 

then told John, “George called; he wants us in the studio by 10 to record the 

remaining songs for the album. “

John grumbled something incomprehensible and went upstairs to get ready 

while Paul, George, and Ringo started joking around and went to the kitchen to 

get some tea. 30 minutes later they arrived at Abbey Road Studios where 

George Martin, their manager, was impatiently waiting for them in the heavy 

snowfall. He rushed them inside the cramped recording studio and told them 

to start practicing. John, Paul, and George slowly walked over to their guitars 

while Ringo went and sat down at his drums which had the infamous logo “THE 

BEATLES” displayed on the bass drum. Everybody played a few notes and 

then started practicing a new song Paul had written for the album.

After going through a few run-throughs, Ringo signaled to the recording 

engineers upstairs that they were ready to start. When the recording 

engineers signaled back, they started playing their first song: There’s A Place. 

Ten takes later, John said, “We've done a 100 takes of this song already, I’m 

not doing any more takes so we can use what we have or use nothing.” Paul, 

John, and George looked around, decided not to argue with him and got 

prepared for their next song: I Saw Her Standing There. When they were 

ready, Paul screamed “one, two, three, four”and the band   energetically 

launched into the song.

By the time the band had finished the two songs it was 1 pm and the 

recording engineers decided to go out to lunch. Out of their microphone 

they told the band “were going to take a break for lunch, you guys can 

leave also.” The Beatles nodded at the engineers but chose to stay and 

practice through the lunch break. Paul went to help out George with a 

section of their next song while John absentmindedly strummed his 

Gibson guitar and Ringo played a random beat on his drums. As the 

break went on everyone became more and more tired but they kept on 

practicing until lunch was over.

When the engineers came back they were astonished that The Beatles had 

decided to stay and practice through the break since they were the first 

band they had ever seen do so. One of the engineers asked, "why didn't you 

take a break?" George looked at him and snidely replied, "because we didn't 

want to." The engineer turned around without saying anything went back 

upstairs and for the next three and half hours the band recorded three 

songs: A Taste Of Honey, Do You Want To Know A Secret, and Misery.

When they were done, George Martin’s voice came through the microphone 

as loud as a clap of thunder, “we’re taking a small break now, but we still have 

a few songs to record so try not to strain your voice that much.” Then the 

recording studio fell into silence and John, Paul, George, and Ringo stepped 

outside of the room to relax and have a snack before they went back in and 

finished recording the rest of the songs. They got some tea and crumpets 

from the cabinets in the break room and started joking around.

The next session started an hour and a half later at 7:30 p.m. and it began 

with the band recording a new song of theirs: Hold Me Tight. After 13 

takes, John once again decided that it was good enough and when nobody 

challenged him the band moved on and played three more songs: Anna (Go To 

Him), Boys, and Chains. By the time they had finished all of the songs it was 

10:00 pm and everybody was tired and wanted to go home. However, George 

Martin stopped the band and engineers from packing up and said he had an 

announcement to make.

George Martin wanted one last song to be recorded for the album, 

everybody was disappointed that they had to stay longer but soon the whole 

studio was offering suggestions for the new song. One of the recording 

engineers suggested that the band cover a song called Twist and Shout by 

The Isley Brothers and that John sing the lead vocal. Paul, George, and 

Ringo all liked the idea but John was against it since his voice almost gone. 

“Come on John, its one song and then we’re done with our first album,” Paul 

said, trying to convince his friend to sing.  

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