Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey RoadProducer: Chris ThomasEngineer: Ken ScottThe Beatles began recording the White Album ballad I Will during this session. George Harrison was absent, so it was a three-man effort. Paul McCartney sang and played acoustic guitar, Ringo Starr played drums and maracas, and John Lennon kept a beat on temple blocks.It took 67 attempts before a satisfactory take was completed. McCartney also led the others through various improvisations, including take 19, better known as Can You Take Me Back?, a snippet from which appeared on the White Album in between Cry Baby Cry and Revolution 9.Also during the session, the trio recorded Step Inside Love, a song written by McCartney for Cilla Black. Their rendition segued into an improvised song, Los Paranoias. These were included on 1996’s Anthology 3, along with take one of I Will.Take 65 was chosen of the best take of I Will. The Beatles had been recording the session on four-track tape, and to enable further overdubs the performance was dubbed onto eight-track tape.At the end of the session a brief overdub was added to Glass Onion: the sound of a recorder, played by Paul McCartney, after the couplet about The Fool On The Hill.