-I know that Yoko Ono sang on "Bungalow Bill" (you can hear her voice, which almost sounds like a child's)

-Eric Clapton played guitar on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

-George Martin played the instrumental on "In My Life"

-I just found out on another thread that Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones played sax on "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)"

I would love to find out more.  What you guys got?

I have a reverse of this...did u know John and Paul sang back-up on the Stones "We Love You" ('67)..?

the stones helped on all you need is love too....

There aren't a lot of guests that play conventional rock/pop instruments. Clapton, The Stones, Brian Jones. Billy Preston, of course. I guees Andy White was also a guest. Mostly the guests were classical musicians. And of course George Martin playing the odd harpsichord, and organ.

In All You Need Is Love apart from the crappy Jagger-Richards  , Marianne Faithfull and Patti Harrison are singing backgrounds. Yoko and Patti are also in Birthday. Maureen is in Bungalow Bill. George Martin also plays that fantastic honky-tonk piano in Lovely Rita and Rocky Raccoon. And also Mal Evans play a lot of percussion in some records, like Mr Kite he played harmonica or tambourine in Dear Prudence.

Well, there are many guests. Who doesn't want to work with the Fab Four?  

Linda McCartney sang the high back-up vocal on Let It Be

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I have a reverse of this...did u know John and Paul sang back-up on the Stones "We Love You" ('67)..?

I don't know that Stones song, unfortunately.  Too bad John and Paul didn't guest on one of their #1's ("Ruby Tuesday" or "Get Off My Cloud")

david mason, who played the trumpet on penny lane. well, i think it was him.

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And also Mal Evans play a lot of percussion in some records, like Mr Kite he played harmonica or tambourine in Dear Prudence.

Not forgetting the instrument of hammer and anvil, which he played in Maxwell's Hammer...

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Not forgetting the instrument of hammer and anvil, which he played in Maxwell's Hammer...

And (I think) Mal Evans also played the alarm clock that is really faint that goes off just before "Woke up, got out of bed ..." in "A Day in the Life".

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-I know that Yoko Ono sang on "Bungalow Bill" (you can hear her voice, which almost sounds like a child's)

-Eric Clapton played guitar on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

-George Martin played the instrumental on "In My Life"

-I just found out on another thread that Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones played sax on "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)"

I would love to find out more.  What you guys got?

I've read that it was too fast for him, and so they recorded it at half speed then sped it up for the record.

Also ... have heard that he played the piano on "Long Tall Sally". It has been so long since I've listened to anything but live versions of this (obviously no piano), I was actually quite shocked when I did recently listen to the album version and heard the piano ... it really changes the song. Actually, except for parts of a phrase here and there, the whole album version seems so much tamer than the live versions (like the BBC version, or various youtube versions).

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And (I think) Mal Evans also played the alarm clock that is really faint that goes off just before "Woke up, got out of bed ..." in "A Day in the Life".

And that's Mal counting the 24 bars of the orchestral passage.

Alister Taylor & George Martin are the people talking at the very beggining of
Revolution #9.

Yoko Ono & 2 Apple Scruffs appear on the Wildlife Version of Across The Universe

sounds more like Tiny Tim singing backround in Bungalow Bill than Yoko (just kidding)

Didn't Nicky Hopkins play on Revolution?

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Didn't Nicky Hopkins play on Revolution?

Sounds like his style. And didn't he play with everyone?

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Sounds like his style. And didn't he play with everyone?

Selected performances - Nicky Hopkins

The Who, My Generation album (1965), "The Song Is Over" (1971),"Getting In Tune"(1971), "We're Not Gonna Take It [movie remix]" (1975), "They're All in Love" (1975), "Slip Kid" (1975)

The Kinks, The Kink Kontroversy (1965), Face to Face (1966), "Mr. Pleasant" (1967), "Village Green", "Berkeley Mews"

Jeff Beck, "Blues De Luxe", "Morning Dew" (1967), Truth (1967), "Girl From Mill Valley",Beck-Ola(1969)

Cat Stevens, "Matthew and Son" (1967), Matthew and Son (1967)

Marc Bolan, "Jasper C. Debussy" (1966-7, released 1974)

The Rolling Stones, "She's a Rainbow" (1967), "Sympathy for the Devil", "No Expectations", "Gimme Shelter" (1969), "Monkey Man" (1969), "Moonlight Mile" (1970), "Tumbling Dice" (1972), "Torn and Frayed" (1972), "Angie" (1973), "Time Waits for No One" (1974), "Fool to Cry" (1976), "Waiting on a Friend" (1981)

The Beatles, "Revolution" (single version)

The Move, "Wild Tiger Woman"

Jamming With Edward [jam session with Ry Cooder and some Rolling Stones] (recorded 1969, released 1972)

Quicksilver Messenger Service, "Shady Grove," "Edward (the Mad Shirt Grinder)," "Spindrifter"

Jefferson Airplane, "Volunteers" (1969), "Eskimo Blue Day" (1969), "Hey Fredrick" (1969)

John Lennon, "Jealous Guy" (1971), "Oh My Love" (1971), "Oh Yoko" (1971)

George Harrison, "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" (1973)

Joe Cocker, "You Are So Beautiful" (1974)

Dogs D'Amour "Hurricane", "Trail of Tears", and "Princes Valium" from the Errol Flynn/King Of The Thieves album (1989)

Yep. Oh, and check out 'Sittin' On My Sofa' from The Kink Kontroversy, a too cool super-rocker. This guy was amazing.

I can't really pick out John and Paul on "We Love You"--there are background vocals but they don't have clarity to me.  

Nicky Hopkins was awesome.  He's right in the middle of that classic Stones sound (late 60s-early 70s).  "Angie" is a high point--though there are plenty of them.  His solo album's supposed to be good Tin Man was a Dreamer (I think).  

It's amazing the Beatles didn't collaborate with their peers more.  I guess these days they'd be on 50 Cent's Curtis record or maybe they'd be on Kanye West's.  

John and Fiddy, what a pair.  

To me, Nicky Hopkins will always be associated w/ the Stones. His body of work w/ them is definitely memorable. When The Fab needed to lay down some complex keyboard work (that Macca couldn't handle) they always ran to Sir George Martin--For Mick & the boys, it was always Nicky Hopkins. I 'll always recall his delicate classical piano style in "She's A Rainbow".  I remember hearing it through a crappy transistor radio in late '67, and even then it was catchy. He was fixture w/them, and he looked very content playing w/the Bad Boys of Rock all the way up to their legendary TV film from '68 "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus" (which I now have on dvd--and it's a treasure)

r.i.p. Nicky (say hello to Brian Jones for me)