76. Sam Okell

Round of applause please......this week's episode was recorded over the internet and there were no, I repeat no, technical hitches! And good job too as Seb and Verity have Senior Engineer at Abbey Road, multiple Grammy and Emmy winner and all round top bloke Sam Okell on for a chat.

What Sam doesn't know about the Beatles ain't worth knowing, having for many years been heavily involved in remastering their complete back catalogue. He recently worked with Giles Martin alongside Peter Jackson on the hugely successful documentary series Get Back. Sam also works extensively on film sessions as a recording engineer and mixer including The Hobbit, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows and The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Seb and Verity catch up with Sam in his home in Cornwall, where he is currently in the process of converting a Methodist Chapel into a recording studio... sounds pretty idyllic. They chat extensively about his work on the Beatles' albums, watching endless hours of their old rehearsal footage, the reception from diehard Beatles fans to the remastered albums and whether he can still listen to their music after all theses years immersed in it!

Sam talks about how he started out - in part with a DIY set up in a woodshed - how he worked his way up the ranks at Abbey Road and how he negotiates his way through tricky film sessions where it's a hotbed of conflicting opinions.

In a perhaps ill advised move, Verity and Seb invited listeners to submit questions for Sam, with varying quality in the responses! Sam's answers involve some mortifying incidents picked up on mics, hidden Beatles 'artifacts' at Abbey Road and an artfully sidestepped answer to what Verity was like at school....

You can follow Sam on his socials, https://www.instagram.com/samokell/ and https://www.twitter.com/samjokell/

Check out his work on the remixed Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band here: https://open.spotify.com/album/6b7ycwe2rxq6FkaupNuGoS?si=AhXZfQlNSPWPy5KoChvrcw

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