"Watch the Sound," hosted by music producer Mark Ronson debuts this Friday on Apple TV+.
The show features Ronson interviewing Paul McCartney and Sean Ono Lennon, along with QuestLove, Dave Grohl, Charli XCX and others.
A few interesting nuggets about the show from NME:
Sean Ono Lennon reimagines his dad’s ‘Hold On’
Offsetting the fact-heavy vibe of the rest of the series, this tender moment from episode one sees Sean Ono Lennon team up with Ronson at his studio to rework John Lennon’s 1970 track, ‘Hold On’. When the British-American musician and multi-instrumentalist puts the original vocal take through the Harmony Engine, he is keen to emphasise how his father would’ve loved the opportunity to play around with this technology. “The Beatles and my dad, they were always on the cutting edge of what was happening,” he reasons.
Macca unpacks the structure of ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’
Shortly after the Moog Synthesiser debuted in 1964, McCartney got his paws on the model. When it came to recording ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ for The Beatles’ seminal 1969 album ‘Abbey Road’, he tested the patience of his band members as he spent weeks crafting the jaunty track’s synth solo. It turned out to be one of the first-ever uses of the Moog on record, and he alchemised the perfect part via adopting a ribbon-slide technique, moving his finger up and down continuously.
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