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but the opportunity of getting into Abbey Road and helping a good cause along the way wasn't one to be missed. SAFCSA London Branch sent out a circular email asking if anyone was interested in representing us as every club was to be represented. I don't know why I was selected (maybe nobody else wanted to do it) but I wasn't going to argue and all I had to do was turn up this afternoon around 1.30 wearing my Sunderland shirt.
After signing some paperwork and a bit of chat with fellow fans we were led down to the cafeteria and I was delighted to see there were alcoholic beverages on sale. I got talking to a couple of lads representing Port Vale and Barnsley and we swapped football tales while slurping a beer or two till we were summoned up to Studio 1. It's a huge place and can accommodate an orchestra. We were seated on four rows and I stuck with my two new pals as the conductor briefed us all on what we had to do. The music track had already been recorded and the composer, Thomas Spencer- Wortley, had laid down a guide vocal, in his kitchen apparently. We were scheduled to spend an hour rehearsing between 3 and 4 p.m. but we managed to get about half of the song recorded in that time. It wasn't too difficult as a lot of it consisted of chants along the lines of, “OH-WHA-OH-OH!” and the like. My voice is maybe the worst thing you've heard since the cats' home burnt down but it was subsumed into the general uproar and the acoustics in there were of course first class.
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