Chords for David Mason Penny Lane Trumpeter

_ _ _ The sparkling sound of Johann [D] Sebastian Bach.
Not the first thing you'd associate with the psychedelic 60s.
But Bach would have a big influence on one of the Beatles' best love [B] songs.
Penny Lane, there is a barber [C#] showing photographs.
With [B] every hand he's had the pleasure to_
Penny Lane [Bm] was one of several tracks the Beatles recorded back in 1967
during sessions that eventually [F#] produced one of the most famous albums of all time,
Sergeant Pepper.
_ [B] _ _ Author and journalist Chris Ingham is a Beatles expert.
So Chris, was Penny Lane then a straightforward recording?
Well, the song itself is quite a bouncy little groove.
_ _ [E] So the actual rhythm [B] track wasn't particularly difficult.
[G#] But they still had to come up with something magical for the instrumental section.
And Paul's first [C#] attempt with a cor anglais,
which is a sort of slightly dour, [G#m] reedy [B] instrument,
wasn't quite ticking anyone's [G#] boxes. _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ [E] What happened next?
_ He was watching the television one [F] night in December 1966
and heard _ Bach's second Brandenburg Concerto.
And he heard the sound of this high trumpet.
_ [G] _ [Fm] This clean, bright, [G] exciting _ sound.
[D] And it was a piccolo trumpet.
_ _ _ The soloist that Paul saw was David Mason,
a former student and later a [G] trumpet professor,
right here at the Royal College of Music.
_ _ _ So [C#] David, [N] Paul McCartney sees you playing the piccolo trumpet on telly.
What happens then?
Well, I received a phone call the next day from George Martin.
And George said, well, are you free tomorrow and can you come along for Abbey Road?
And I said yes.
And we arranged it.
And just as an afterthought, I said, oh, who's this for?
He said, oh, it's the Beatles.
So I went along the next night and in walked these four
and I thought they were in fancy dress.
So I said, have you come off a film set?
Oh, no, mate, we always dress like this.
Who said that?
George Lennon.
No, John [C#] Lennon.
See, I didn't even know [G#] their names at that time.
It was terrible.
And then [G#m] Paul sat down at the piano
and George sat down with a piece of manuscript paper
and Paul played a bit on the piano and said,
diddle-um, diddle-um, can you play that?
And I tried and [G#] he said, well, a bit higher, or, you know, like that.
And we went [B] on like that for about three hours.
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_ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
The [G] trumpet's a physically demanding instrument
and David retired from playing a couple [F#] of years ago.
But so [E] nimble was David's original playing
that a rumour [A] spread that it wasn't authentic.
Many people, including a lot of [D] trumpet players, of course,
thought that it was played on the ordinary big B-flat trumpet
and had [A] been speeded up, but it wasn't.
I did play it like that.
And is [E] it true that you [F#] suggested Penny Lane to be in A-side as well?
[Bm] I said, what's going to happen to it?
They said, oh, it's going on the back of Strawberry Fields.
And I, quite innocently, said,
I like this much better than Strawberry Fields.
[G#] John Lennon, who was sitting in the corner, said,
oh, [G] thanks, mate, I wrote that.
_ [F#] It didn't please him too much, of course. _ _
[B] David was paid £27.10 [F#] for his work.
_ [B] The Beatles decided not to [Bm] include Penny Lane on Sergeant Pepper,
giving [G#] it an early release date [G] as a double A-sided single
along with Strawberry Fields Forever.
[F#] It was described as [E] the greatest double A-side ever.
[D#] So, Dave, Penny Lane, iconic song, wonderful trumpet,
you're the player, how does it make you feel? _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [G#] _ _ Being [C#] thoroughly modest, most [D] people came up to me
and said it made the [E] record, but I think it did.
I think it did as [G] well, mate.
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_ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [C#m] _ LAUGHTER
Well done, that [D] was absolutely terrific.
Thank you very