In a Rolling Stone interview on November 10, 1969, Ray Davies said, “Sunny Afternoon was made very quickly, in the morning, it was one of our most atmospheric sessions. I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it’s superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently – if I had walked around the studio or gone out – it wouldn’t have turned out that way. The bass player went off and started playing funny little classical things on the bass, more like a lead guitar: and Nicky Hopkins, who was playing piano on that session, was playing “Liza” – we always used to play that song – little things like that helped us get into the feeling of the song.
At the time I wrote Sunny Afternoon I couldn’t listen to anything. “I was only playing The Greatest Hits of Frank Sinatra and Dylan’s Maggie’s Farm – I just liked it’s whole presence, I was playing the Bringing It All Back Home LP along with my Frank Sinatra and Glenn Miller and Bach – it was a strange time. We thought they all helped one another, they went into the chromatic part that’s in the back of the song. I once made a drawing of my voice on ‘Sunny Afternoon.’ It was a leaf with a very thick outline – a big blob in the background – the leaf just cutting through it.”
(Source)
RELATED: Wild Cherry, 1976: ‘Play That Funky Music’
Terminator star and former Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is a proud father of five…
Roseanne Barr made heads turn at the premiere of a new series, Mr. Birchum, following…
The family of Beach Boys' co-founder, Brian Wilson, is taking proactive steps to care for…
Monty Python’s Eric Idle and John Cleese have hardly gotten along for years, with both…
Katherine Schwarzenegger has strong feelings about the Met Gala, the highly exclusive fashion event held…
Elizabeth Hurley and her 22-year-old son Damian Hurley were recently at Everyman Chelsea movie theater…