CHAPTER 17

‘You had me from ‘Hello’

One word, that's all you said

Something in your voice caused me to turn my head

Your smile just captured me

And you were in my future, far as I could see

And I don't know how it happened, but it happened still

You ask me if I love you, if I always will…’

In the recording studio, it was difficult to keep track of the passing of time because there were no windows, and, with the heavy acoustic material on the walls and ceiling, it felt like a cave all the time.

When Lennon sat down with the sound engineer to go over what he’d designed for the background track, he was surprised to see it was seven o’clock.

“Hey, everyone, let’s call it a day. We can figure out the rest of this tomorrow while Rosalee and I give our voices a break, and then we’ll record vocals on Wednesday…”

“Sounds great, dude!” Jared said, pulling himself up off the couch. “Besides, I’m starving. Come on, Rosalee. Let’s go see what Mom has planned for dinner.”

“Okay,” Rosalee s