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Performers credited with sound effects - slams, applause, animal noises, found audio - added to the recording.

12
values
28
total uses
Eleven people provide the sound effects on nine Beatles recordings. John Lennon provides the sound effects on six of them, ahead of Paul McCartney on four and Mal Evans on three. Most of them are credited on one record only, six of the eleven, among them Brian Jones (on 'Yellow Submarine'), Terry Condon (on 'Yellow Submarine') and Alf Bicknell (on 'Yellow Submarine'). Revolver shows more of them than any other album for its length, nine of the eleven across its fourteen tracks. Lennon wrote six of the nine, well past his usual share of the catalogue.
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Behind George Martin, Mal Evans is the most prolific non-Beatle player on the catalogue - credited on 13 Beatles recordings.

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All Values(12)

#ValueSongs% of total
1John Lennon

John Lennon contributed sound effects.

6
21.4%
2Uncredited

Unnamed session musicians played the sound effects on this recording.

5
17.9%
3Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney contributed sound effects.

4
14.3%
4Mal Evans

Road manager and personal assistant to the Beatles from the Cavern years through the rooftop concert.

3
10.7%
5Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr contributed sound effects.

2
7.1%
6George Harrison

George Harrison contributed sound effects.

2
7.1%
7Alf Bicknell

Sound-effects contributor credited on a Beatles recording.

1
3.6%
8Brian Jones

Founding member and multi-instrumentalist of the Rolling Stones.

1
3.6%
9John Skinner

EMI Studios commissionaire, who joined the sound-effects crowd on Yellow Submarine.

1
3.6%
10Terry Condon

EMI Studios employee in the 1960s, commonly identified as a doorman at Abbey Road.

1
3.6%
11Mick Jagger

Session instrumentalist working in London studios in the 1960s.

1
3.6%
12Pattie Boyd

British model and George Harrison's wife from 1966 to 1977; later Eric Clapton's wife and the subject of 'Something' and 'Layla'.

1
3.6%