Soul singer and producer Jordan Rakei has been spending a lot of his Fridays staring at John Lennon’s cigarette marks recently.
This March, the songwriter became the first artist in residence at the Beatles’ spiritual home Abbey Road Studios. It’s a fairytale position that involves playing around with Adele’s microphone and tinkling the keys of John Lennon’s piano at a moment’s notice, or whatever mystical toys he can find in the fabled Studios Two and Three. But Abbey Road approached Rakei with one strict instruction: that he makes it a space where people make music for fun.
