"Another Heart Breaks"

I listened to Time this morning and noticed that at ~2:34 in "Another Heart Breaks," a voice starts counting off the measures, from one to eight.  This may be yet an-other instance of the Beatles' influence; there's also a voice counting off the measures in "A Day in the Life."  According to the liner notes of Anthology 2, this is "Mal Evans, one of the Beatles' two assistants, counting out the first of two long gaps that would later be so famously filled with the orchestral crescendos."