John Lennon & George Martin listen to playback, in a photo by Frank Hermann from 1967.
Here's a #playback thread 🧵
I love the staring-into-space looks of the musicians, producers & engineers.
Gregor Piatigorsky listening to #playback of his Brahms sonatas
📷 W. Eugene Smith, 1947
Bruno Walter listening to playback at Columbia Studios
📷 Dennis Stock, 1959
Leonard Bernstein in a playback session.
📷 Siegfried Lauterwasser
"Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear."
- Henry David Thoreau
Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans listen to playback in the studio.
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1961
Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline Du Pre & Daniel Barenboim listen to the playback of the Beethoven "Ghost" Trio, op. 70 no. 1
📷 David Hurn, 1970
What an extraordinary group of friends!
Studio backup singer @cher listens to #playback at a Phil Spector recording session at Gold Star Studios
📷 Ray Avery, LA, 1964
Sir Thomas Beecham listens to the #playback of one of his Delius recordings
📷 Erich Auerbach, 1949
Billie Holiday listens to #playback, in her last studio recording session
📷 Milt Hinton, 1959
This is so sad; she was very ill by this time. Billie died on July 15, 1959
Don Hunstein
Bob Dylan listens to Highway 61 Revisited #playback in the booth of Columbia's Studio A, New York, summer 1965. That Dylan's manager Albert Grossman to his right.
Graham Nash
Stephen Stills at Wally Heider Recording Studio 3 on Selma Avenue, while listening to playback of 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes', 1969.
Jimi Hendrix listens to #playback with producer & engineer Eddie Kramer & studio manager Jim Marron at Electric Lady Studio in New York
📷 Fred W. McDarrah, June 17, 1970
Nice to see this photo of the late Harry Belafonte listening to #playback in the studio. #RIP
Unidentified photographer, 1957
Marc Bolan & T-Rex listen to #playback at Rosenberg Studios, Copenhagen
📷 Jorgen Angel, 1972
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band listen to #playback at The Power Station during the recording of The River
📷 David Gahr, March 1980
Aretha Franklin listens to #playback with Neshui & Ahmet Ertegun & producer & engineer Tom Dowd
📷 by David Gahr, April 1980
Frank Zappa listens to #playback of "We're Only In It For the Money".
📷 Charlie Steiner, New York, August 1967
Listening to #playback of Carole King's Tapestry:
James Taylor, engineer Hank Cicalo, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, producer Lou Adler
📷 Jim McCrary, 1971
Alfred Wertheimer
Elvis Presley in the studio, listening to #playback, 1956
Kwame Braithwaite
Cannonball Adderley, Great Northern Hotel, listening to #playback, early 60s
Linda McCartney
John Lennon listening to #playback during the recording of The White Album, 1968
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