The final version "Archie" was the last to be mixed in the studio - its greatest challenge was, inconveniently, the engineering of Charlie's drums, which Michael considered central to the track's rhythm section.

"If anyone can bang a snare and kick like Bonham, it's Charlie. But how do you capture an unmistakable sound without merely aping the treatments that originally produced it? After a lot of fiddling, we had something: a combination of the performed track and triggers of varying timbres and ambiences, heavy compression in key places, and a touch of distortion. Maybe a little too bright, or close, or big, but for 'Archie,' it was what pretty much fit."