3 Facts About the Drum Solo on 'The End'

The drum solo was recorded in a stairwell Ringo played in the stairwell at Abbey Road Studios, not the main studio room, to get a big, natural reverb.

The engineer miked the stairwell on purpose Geoff Emerick set up microphones in the stone-walled stairwell outside the control room to capture the cavernous, live sound that artificial reverb couldn’t provide at the time.

The stairwell recording made the solo iconic If they had used the standard studio setup, the solo would have sounded flat. The happy accident of the stairwell’s acoustics gave it its distinctive, powerful sound.