Dick produced, obviously aware of the beating of our novice hearts, allowing us time to settle down, to accustom ourselves to the cathedral studio. Our songs were very carefully written, rewritten, arranged and polished long before recording sessions. We never wrote in the studio like some bands. But all the songs went into the studio fully-formed. We were always willing to listen and incorporate inventive ideas. The arrangements were down to us, although Dick did have some input via carefully phrased suggestions. The actual recording process was taken out of our hands and was something of a mystery: we did what we were told in terms of levels and retakes. In fact we were stunned by the clarity of the results, fascinated by the recording process and pleased to find that the engineers were friendly and co-operative. We recorded `Holiday Maker` and `Kaleidoscope.` Unlike every recording session we`d ever had before - in egg-box dives - we were not disappointed with the results. Although nervous, entering this mysterious, subterranean dimly-lit cavern, we knew that we could not allow anything to go wrong. On the 24th February 1967 we had our first recording session as Kaleidoscope at Philips` Stanhope Place studio just a giant leap for mankind from Marble Arch.
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