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I've been listening to Manfred Mann's first album (The Five Faces of Manfred Mann) a lot recently, and in looking up Mike Vickers, I discovered that he programed the Moog parts on the Beatles' Abbey Road album. On his website, he writes that "I bought a Moog Series III synthesizer, one of the first to arrive in the UK, and used it a lot in the studios, including programming all the electronic sounds heard on the Beatles' 'Abbey Road'." On the Beatles' website, I found this picture of George Harrison, Mike Vickers, and Paul McCartney with a Moog:
