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File contents
227 CRICKLADE ROAD, SWINDON, WILTSHIRE, SN2 1AE, 01793 488020
Dear Gus
Your mention of listening to the latest of the Beatles Anthology releases
got me thinking about just how much material they produced as a group and
a little sceptical about whether anyone can truly have all their
officially released output.
All the official Beatle output in its final British album format (plus
single and EP tracks not on album) was given a worldwide release on CD in
'86-'87. While this was a very good attempt to get it all on digital
medium, it was actually another version ("Mix" as I believe pop-pickers
have it) of their work even if it stuck close to the original. However, a
vast number of slightly, and some greatly, different mixes are left
ignored on vinyl and even shellac all around the world.
I don't mean accidental issuing of recordings with the wrong EQ setting
for the medium (all their albums were available on vinyl or open reel tape
during the 60's, this small techy difference has an immense effect, it
usually sounds like a bass/drums heavy remix - mistakes occur today with
the CD/cassette media), but full blown different versions.
A silly example first, 'All My Loving' in vinyl single form starts with
three high-hat beats, but only the album version, sans high-hat, was
released on CD. More seriously, 'And I Love Her' a maudlin air from the
Beatles lovable mop-top period came in different versions in different
territories. The difference is the number of repeats of the closing
guitar riff. Of course these are not major differences, but they do
change the overall feel of the recording.
By the time Beatles had mastered growing their hair but were beginning to
lack confidence with a brush and comb, some songs were doctored for
the express reason they were considered unsuitable for 'unsophisticated'
US ears. This ranges from 'wacky baccy' fueled "played it backwards,
recorded it forwards, played it back backwards" guitar solo's in 'I'm only
Sleeping' (A recent hit for someone else) to twenty seconds of Lennonesque
noise in 'I Am The Walrus'. By a quirk of fate the doctored '... Walrus'
(Stop smirking) is the only one available on CD.
The first four Beatles albums, weren't released in the stereo form on CD
that was popular for twenty odd years on LP prior to the remastering.
Half of the joy to me of these versions is hearing all the switches and
glitches expanded across two channels that are deliberately submerged in
mono. But I didn't realise that there are greater differences too. Most
notably 'Please Please Me', I am reliably informed, has a different final
verse between stereo and mono releases. You can get them as pirate CDs,
but the quality is almost certainly very poor.
Ok with the mono stereo thing so far? Now cop this. By the time the
Beatles had abandoned all manner of tonsorial tweaking in favour of
spending a year in bed for tax reasons, stereo had very much pushed mono
to one side and the fabs knew it. So the 'The Beatles White Album' comes
in two very different forms on original vinyl - one mono one stereo. The
songs are mixed differently (Guitar up, bass down, sitar sideways, "BASS UP
or I'll leave") and come in markedly different lengths. I don't much care
for the white album, it's a triuumph of form over content with content
putting up no fight, but I'd love to hear and compare the two versions.
Which is why the original 60's (Especially), 70's and early 80's LP's (The
de luxe edition LPs that accompanied the CD issue were the CD mix)
command such exorbitant prices in second hand record shops. Because they
are (In many cases) different from the CD version for half as much in the
high street. Except the budget label re-release of the 'RocknRoll' music
album that is. As Beatles collectables go it's got everything going for
it. Not only are there stereo versions of the only-mono-on-CD songs but
it was actually withdrawn by EMI. Yep, John "Full wack, wack" Lennon
really imagined no possessions and had it taken off the shelves because it
was budget price. But no value at all secondhand for Beatles collectors.
Oh yes. And when was the LP version of Mystery Tour released in the UK?
1978, true. Prior to that it was imported, officially, in vast quantity
as a US Capitol/Apple album, while EMI/Parlo stuck with the double EP. So
that's why, uniquely among Beatles albums it is stuffed with singles - and
probably why it lacks the 'oneness' of a real Beatles album too. And why
the US mix of '... Walrus' came to befavoured over the British one on CD.
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