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Well, as with 'Sgt.Pepper', it's rather hard to say. I've had mails from
loads of people saying they can hear 'Tron on this or that Beatles track,
and chances are, you're all correct! Bit of a bugger to hear in the mix,
unfortunately. Since Beatles stuff is easy to find on file-sharing programs,
I'll listen to anything that anyone recommends - the aforementioned Pepper
is my next 'is it or isn't it?' listen.

Andy T.
M400 #1145

Ah yes, Pepper - even now I still struggle with working out whether or not any 'tron is on there - the only possible candidates I could think of would be the audience sounds on the title track and reprise (though I've heard somewhere that George Martin actually got those from recordings of 'Beyond The Fringe' a few years previously - anyone else know for certain about that?), and ∗maybe∗ the following tracks:

the animal sound effects on 'Good Morning Good Morning'? - MKII flute buried somewhere on the tooty parts of 'Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite'? and another one, the main one I still can't work out - on the piano solo in 'Lovely Rita' - it sounds like either the piano is heavily reverbed elsewhere in the mix, or just maybe, could be very heavily reverbed MKII violins playing (more or less) the same melody as the piano - it has a bit of 'that sound' about it (more so on my mono copy anyway). Again though, all guesses - anyone else shed any light on those?

Tony Swettenham
M400S # 581