As Paul McCartney observed only days before the group joined producer George Martin at EMI Studios to begin formal recordings for The White Album: “We are going in with clear heads and hoping for the best. The bandmates’ original plan had been to conduct multiple rehearsals in advance of their new album.
As the Beatles prepared to record their new long-player, the group gathered at Harrison’s Kinfauns studio in London’s Esher suburb. Having only recently returned from their sojourn with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh, the bandmates were eager to commit their new musical ideas to tape. Known as the “Esher demos,” the rough recordings they produced in George Harrison’s home studio would serve as a blueprint for the group’s landmark album The Beatles, later popularized as The White Album. At the tail end of May 1968, the Beatles assembled for one of the most extraordinary sessions in their storied career.
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