Travis have discussed the recording process of their new album, and revealed that the piano used on the single ‘Gaslight’ was the same that The Beatles used on ‘Lady Madonna’.
The discussion arose during a new interview with band members Fran Healy and Dougie Payne, who both joined Chris Moyles on his Radio X show.
During the interview, they opened up about their latest record ‘LA Times’, which arrived last week. It marked their ninth studio album, and first since their 2016 release ‘Everything At Once’.
News of the LP was first shared in March, when the band confirmed new material and dropped the lead single ‘Gaslight’. Now, in the latest interview with Radio X, the members have shared that the piano heard on the track is the same as used by Liverpool legends The Beatles on their 1970 track ‘Lady Madonna
It sounds amazing on the radio, it really does. Because on the record it sounds a certain way, but when you get that FM compression, it does something to certain songs,” Fran Healy explained, recalling how the album was recorded in a place called ‘Dave’s Room’.
“That piano there – That was from a very famous jazz club in Chicago. The person who owned the studio was called Dave Bianco, and he worked with Tom Petty and various kinds of like rock and roll bands. And he’d just go and find all these amazing things. So, they’d ship this in, it’s a very famous piano. It sounds great,” he added, before clarifying that this wasn’t the one used on the lead single.
“Do you know what that is? That’s the piano from Abbey Road,” he said. “It’s the same piano as ‘Lady Madonna’ was played on… It’s a plug-in. They recorded that piano at Abbey Road, they sampled it all [as] a demo, and Tony [Hoffer, producer] was like, ‘It sounds brilliant, let’s just use that.’ And I was like, ‘Really, are you sure?’”
Check out the interview above, and both the tracks to feature the tack piano below.
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