Unreleased Beatles Album To be Released

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Unreleased Beatles tracks are to be reworked for a Las Vegas circus show soundtrack, with an accompanying album reported to be lined up for release.
Producer Sir George Martin is making background music for the forthcoming Cirque du Soleil show by remastering unheard recordings by the band.
Variety says the band's label Apple Corps plans to release an album of "completely new music" from the show.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are said to be overseeing the project.
The families of George Harrison and John Lennon have also been involved.
Announced in 2004, the Cirque du Soleil show is expected to open at the Mirage resort in Las Vegas this summer.
Remastered singles
Sir George's son Giles Martin, who is working on the project, told Variety they were trying to "achieve the same intimacy we get when listening to the master tapes at Abbey Road".
"I think we will achieve a real sense of drama with the music," he said.
"The audience will feel as though they are actually in the room with the band."
Cirque du Soleil performers at the Royal Albert Hall in 2005
Cirque du Soleil is among the most popular Las Vegas shows
The Beatles remastered the unfinished tracks Free as a Bird and Real Love for release as singles in the mid-1990s.
The singles were taken from the band's Anthology sets of demos and rarities.
An album of the band's number one singles, entitled 1, was a chart-topper around the world in 2000.

Box sets such as the Capitol Albums collections of the US versions of the band's albums have also been released in recent years.

I bet Geir is excited.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:33 (twenty years ago)

Who gives a shit?

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:35 (twenty years ago)

Geir!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Mojo!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Uncut!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:36 (twenty years ago)

I don't love love love the Beatles quite as madly as I did when I was thirteen but this is still rawther exciting. It seems like a circus is the perfect environment for the goofy whimsidelia of mid-period Beatles; the fact that it's Cirque de Soleil means that it will probably be considerably less goofy than the image I have in my head (Ringo with his head in a lion's mouth, Paul on the tightrope, etc., a la "Hard Day's Night") but UNRELEASED BEATLES ALBUM? THAT SEEMS PRETTY NEAT.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:48 (twenty years ago)

Beatles = circus music seems about right.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:58 (twenty years ago)

"Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite" anyone?

― D.D. Disappointed Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Well, how 'bout that!

― yarn, Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:31 (twenty years ago)

Just think, the material probably isn't as good as Free As A Bird...

Still excited?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:32 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure what's holding them back from releasing a collection of EVERY unreleased Beatles track, since there are probably at least 30 songs (such as "I'm In Love" or any of their Christmas fanclub records) that were not included on the Anthology set or on Live At the BBC. Even if every last one of the songs is terrible, the record will still sell millions.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:32 (twenty years ago)

Does this mean "Carnival Of Light" will finally get a legit release?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:32 (twenty years ago)

"Carnival Of Light" was due to be released in the months after Lennon's death but the Thatcherist Tory conspiracy blocked its release in order to prevent a swing to the left and start riots amongst unemployed youth.

― Carcello Marlin (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:41 (twenty years ago)

"Unreleased Beatles tracks" crowbarred into a theatrical soundtrack does not equal "Unreleased Beatles Album."

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Actually George Harrison put the kibosh on "CoL" coming out. I suppose "Commonwealth Song" will not be forming part of this treasure trove.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

the Beatles not releasing every last thing they recorded is a) genius, but b) only because they don't need the money right now

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

They might not need the money but Michael Jackson surely does

― D.D. Disappointed Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:50 (twenty years ago)

I wish Apple would reissue Ringo's Blast From Your Past greatest hits album.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:54 (twenty years ago)

I thought everthing had come out at some point, at least in bootleg form. When does the stuff date from?

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:03 (twenty years ago)

this SOUNDS like they're talking about Carnival of Light, to me.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:13 (twenty years ago)

and yes, Carnival of Light is, I think, probably the only known song to have been recorded that hasn't made it out as a bootleg in some manner

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:13 (twenty years ago)

They might not need the money but Michael Jackson surely does

But Michael jackson owns only the publishing, not the recordings.

― Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

"remastering unheard recordings...to create an album of completely new music".

Don't hold your breath folks, I'm betting it's just remixed, remastered, jigged around versions of their old recordings, possibly similar to that meh Super Furry Animals thing that Paul did a few years back, not a cool album of unheard songs.

Everything Cirque De Soleil is involved with ends up sounding like 3 Enyas singing along to 3 Yannis so lets just chill about this.

― everything, Thursday, 13 April 2006 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Unedited half-hour take of "Helter Skelter" (w/Lennon sax-skronk!) anyone?

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 13 April 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Kinda surprised geir hasn't posted to this, if only to scream about the upcomimg "Beatles Remasters" to be sold on-line.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 13 April 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

I can't foresee this being anything but terrible. George Martin is a hack.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 April 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

the upcoming remasters are exciting though, definitely.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 April 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

George Martin is a hack? How so?

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

oh I just think he's kind of a lucky asshole who was in the right place at the right time - check anything he did sans Beatles and its all dreck, gloopy unadventurous schlock. He was the guy with the technical know-how to implement the Beatles' ideas, but ideas of his own he does not seem to have had at all. Plus his admonishing musicians for taking drugs while simultaneously living off of the millions that drug-taking musicians made him = rich hypocrite.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:30 (twenty years ago)

I think most bands would benefit from having a guy like George Martin around. Did anyone ever rely on him for "ideas" (which he did have btw, they were just arranging/orchestration ideas as opposed to song ideas)? I mean, how does something like Strawberry Fields even happen w/out George Martin?

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

look obviously he played a central role in the Beatles recordings - I'm just saying that that role was one of the "hired hand" of expert engineering, and not one of aesthetic input. If you look at the stuff he did outside of the Beatles, or the orchestral things he put together for them (movie soundtracks etc.) its run-of-the-mill crap.

The way "Strawberry Fields Forever" was made is pretty well-documented. I'm not sure what your point is in bringing that one up.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Plus his admonishing musicians for taking drugs while simultaneously living off of the millions that drug-taking musicians made him = rich hypocrite.

That's one of the silliest things I have ever heard.

― musically (musically), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Like anyone would go so far to give the money back.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

That he did a nice score for it? (x-posts re. "Strawberry Fields")

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

who cares what he did outside of the Beatles?

He may sort of been a hired hand by the end, but at first he was not only producing them, but deciding which of their songs to record, even at one point replacing Ringo on a song! The Beatles are the one of the best produced bands in pop history - if not *the* best - and yes they had great ideas and great ears, but they also had options available to them that w/out George Martin would never have been there.

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

"not one of aesthetic input"

Don't agree. I think he was pretty instrumental in the element of Classicism in the Beatles, starting with the scoring of "Yesterday" and "Eleanor Rigby," the "Baroque" piano solo on "In My Life," etc.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:52 (twenty years ago)

I'm just saying that that role was one of the "hired hand" of expert engineering, and not one of aesthetic input.

except he wasn't even/ever the engineer; usually it was Norman Smith or Geoff Emerick or Ken Scott or Chris Thomas or Phil MacDonald or a few others.

martin's talent was in his ability to translate the beatles' orchestration ideas into scores that the hired musicians could read. as far as the sound itself, that's all down to the engineers. revolver had a *dramatically* different sound than rubber soul -- george martin produced both, but geoff emerick gave revolver its sound. came up with ideas like, "what if i put the mic *inside* the bass drum? what if i use loads of compression and limiting?" in fact, many of the beatles' ideas were initially dismissed by martin only for emerick to make them possible.

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm not denying that - but they could've gotten just about any quality studio engineer at the same time to do the same kinds of things. Classically-trained engineers were not all that much of a rarity in that era. Its the kind of music they were most familiar with.

(TS: Nicky Hopkins harpsichord solos vs. George Martin piano solos)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:58 (twenty years ago)

People are excited about this? Must be shite if it didn't make it on the insultingly overhyped Anthology thing.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

(uh xpost to Tim)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

But Shakey, didn't Martin suggest the string quartet on "Yesterday?" I don't think he was just a facilitator - I think it was partly his vision.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

I think he did, yes. So he contributed a schlocky idea to one of the Beatles' schlockiest songs, let's all call him an ARTISTE now, shall we?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:12 (twenty years ago)

(btw the drug thing I was referring to was a fairly recent interview wherein Martin derided modern musicians' drug intake - seemingly unaware of the irony involved from dispensing such wisdom from his ivory tower. which was at least partially built with drugs.)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

I think the idea was that it wasn't supposed to be schlocky. McCartney was worried that it would sound like Mantovanti. The string quartet was supposed to be tasteful.

You might not like the song, but do you really hate the arrangement? (And of course it got the ball rolling - the next year he did the scoring for the string octet on "Eleanor Rigby.")

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:15 (twenty years ago)

"Mantovani"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:15 (twenty years ago)

actually I find most of the Beatles classical gestures (Yesterday, Eleanor Rigby, the Bach trumpet in "Penny Lane", "Goodnight", etc.) to be rather forced and self-conscious - a "hey lookit me playin SERIOUS music" gambit that's sorta unnecessary and not all that interesting. I don't know if I hate the arrangement to "Yesterday" per se but it doesn't really strike me as phenomenal or unusual or anything. I can think of similarly arranged songs that I like more (Nico's "Fairest of the Seasons" springs to mind).

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:21 (twenty years ago)

TS: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles vs. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Soundtrack. George Martin produced them both.

― everything, Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:22 (twenty years ago)

I like 'em. What would have been better for "Eleanor Rigby" than that arrangement? What would have been better for "For No One" and "Penny Lane" than those horn solos? (The cor anglais solo on the Anthology version of "Penny Lane" is SO inferior.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Also: you know what's awesome? The fucking orchestra at the end of Abbey Road. Totally compromised in the original mix. Hearing it on the Anthology, you hear how it should have sounded: the sudden presence of AN ENTIRE ORCHESTRA.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

What's the opinion on the harpsichord bit from "In My Life"? I assume it's George Martin's contribution. I'd have prefered something a bit less jaunty sounding.

― everything, Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

its a piano and it is played by George Martin.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

(altho I think a bunch of the other piano/organ things on Rubber Soul are played by Mal Evans, correct...?)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

It's also played back at twice the speed, which is part of what's cool about it - it has a sort of inhuman quality.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Evans is credited with the Hammond part on "You Won't See Me." Ringo plays the part on "I'm Looking Through You."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:38 (twenty years ago)

hating on george martin for not being a creative visionary is pointless, the guy got his job done. it was a good thing they hired a classical guy to produce them, he was there with the chops when they started asking about trumpet solos and string sections and "twelve bars of bach or something". in interviews some of his statements make me roll my eyes a bit, but no more than paul.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000024ZB.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

The 1972 release Icarus was produced by George Martin and described by him as "the finest album I have made".

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

I agree with all that - which is why I'm not particularly excited about any project where he's the helmsman, including this most recent one.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:04 (twenty years ago)

I mean I'm not "hating on him" - he definitely got the job done. He was, y'know, workmanlike. A hack. A competent guy who was there cuz they paid him and it was good for his career.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

he's old and pretty deaf now also

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Anyone ever heard any of his pre-Beatles, novelty record productions like the Goons?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

b. 3 January 1926, London, England. Martin became the world's most famous record producer through his work with the Beatles . Classically trained at London's Guildhall School of Music, he joined EMI Records in November 1950 as a junior A&R man. Five years later, Martin was given charge of the Parlophone Records label where he produced a wide variety of artists. Among them were ballad singers ( Shirley Bassey and Matt Monro ), skiffle groups (the Vipers ), jazz bands ( Temperance 7 , John Dankworth , Humphrey Lyttelton ) and numerous comedy artists. Chief among these were Peter Sellers and Bernard Cribbins , whose "Right Said Fred" and "Hole In The Ground" were hits in 1962.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

hah I never knew "Right Said Fred" was a novelty tune! kinda makes "I'm Too Sexy" even funnier.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gladding.com/rsf/right_said_fred-.mp3

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Where is Geir?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

listening to the new T.I.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

T.I?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 April 2006 23:02 (twenty years ago)

I doubt there is any unreleased Beatles material worth checking out out there. I was not at all impressed with "Anthology", where IMO the two new recordings (both better than their reputation) were the most interesting things.

I'd rather look for 24 bit remasters, preferrably with both stereo and mono versions available on the same album.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 13 April 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

george martin produced America so that makes him genius, AMIRITE??

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 13 April 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

ANTHOLOGY WAS TOO ROUGH FOR GEIR (THANK HEAVENS FOR THE TWO ULTRA-POLISHED SHITTY SINGLES THEN)

― Father Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 14 April 2006 00:17 (twenty years ago)

What do you do for a living Buttez? Your 'interventions' always raise a chuckle this side of the pond.

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Friday, 14 April 2006 10:31 (twenty years ago)

But he's also speculated, on at least one occasion, that the combination of drugs (Beatles) and no drugs (Martin) had great results.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:40 (twenty years ago)

I am a Tourism student and I am enjoying my Easter break!

― Father Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 14 April 2006 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Happy Easter!

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Friday, 14 April 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Anyone who does not like the Beatles has nothing to contribute to discussions about music.

― Dhani, Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:35 (twenty years ago)

What remasters for sale over the internet?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:49 (twenty years ago)

be considerably less goofy than the image I have in my head (Ringo with his head in a lion's mouth, Paul on the tightrope, etc., a la "Hard Day's Night") but UNRELEASED BEATLES ALBUM? THAT SEEMS PRETTY NEAT.
-- owen moorhead (owen_...) (webmail), April 13th, 2006 12:48 PM. (link)

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Hall/1056/lions.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:02 (twenty years ago)

all hail me.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:03 (twenty years ago)

Anyone who does not like The Rutles has nothing to contribute to discussions about music.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

CMon! It's Ringo! With his head in a Lion's Mouth!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 April 2006 11:28 (twenty years ago)

Anyone who does not like The Rutles has nothing to contribute to discussions about music.
-- Chewshabadoo (ilx@chew.nildram(R£M0V£).co.uk), April 20th, 2006.

amen that, brother. i think that album is really crazy. some of the songs have 4 or 5 or more beatles references, melodies, lyrics buried in them. just crazy the amount of crap that would pack into one rutles song.

― corey c (shock of daylight), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 07:50 (twenty years ago)

Anyone who does not like The Rutles has nothing to contribute to discussions about music.
-- Chewshabadoo (il...), April 20th, 2006.

thirded.

― pisces, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 10:57 (twenty years ago)

Forphed.

― Saxophone Colostomy (NickB), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 10:58 (twenty years ago)

In his Rolling Stone interview with Jonathan Cott,Glenn Gould was so disgusted with Beatles' early "classical." He said pop should be pop, and he preferred Petula Clark. Letters To The Editor so indignant! But good strings on "I Am The Walrus," "A Day In The LIfe" (Martin claimed he tore up the tape, threw the pieces in the air, and spliced 'em together),"Strawberry Fields"(Lennon always complained about Martin's splice, but I thought it added a hazey shade of jolt, appropriately), and the ending of "Glass Onion." (A major influence on Tindersticks? Who cares.) Live At The BBC and the first Anthology are often exhilarating, the other Anthologies can be pretty tedious. They really did tend to build, take by take by take by take, only very gradually getting more interesting, so we shouldn't wish for the Compleat. Emerick's got a book out now, reportedly good on the engineering bits, not so good on other. Think he's the one (I've read elsewhere) who finally realized that the way to audibly multitrack Lennon's voice (which Lennon demanded, because he hated his solo voice,supposedly), was to have the tracks slightly out of sync. And of course they had to bounce tracks too, without losing volume or adding noise, the latter in pre-Dublin days (sorry, I just watched This Is Spinal Tap again recently). Recent Rolling Stone has Douglas's review of the new collection of American versions of albums, yes! "I've Just Seen A Face" was always the way to open Rubber Soul. Beatles VI ruled my midchildhood. (Okay, midteenhood.)

― don, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm just about finished w/Emerick's book ("Here There & Everywhere"). Fun read - suprisingly kind of bitchy, but in a good way. Dude was only 19 years old when he engineered Revolver. Overall, probably one of the better Beatles books I've ever read.

― darin (darin), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the reviewer said he was *still* resentful that McCartney & friends wouldn't sit near him at a concert. Got up and moved, I think! And that they were a pain to work with, after a while, because of endless petty disputes, as well as the more important ones. That sounds plausible. And the reviewer said there wasn't that much about what he did after the Beatles. What did he do?

― don, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

has anyone read bob spitz's new book on the beatles? i never thought i'd ever want to read another book about them but it's been getting good reviews. on the other hand, it's like 900 pages.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 01:57 (twenty years ago)

The best book I read about the Beatles was "Magical Mystery Tours" by some guy who I think was Brian Epstein's personal assistant? Anyway, he knows his stuff, and the book was great. I've heard that Bob Spitz's book is full of errors, and it is in fact *1000+ pages*. I'm not afraid of long books or anything but sweet merciful crap I love the Beatles but not that much.

― musically (musically), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 03:19 (twenty years ago)

"I've Just Seen A Face" was always the way to open Rubber Soul.

true; this is probably the only one of the US albums that I prefer to the UK version (maybe meet the beatles too)

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 05:17 (twenty years ago)

Emerick is mostly still pissy about George Martin. Alledgedly, Martin told all of the engineers to get lost before the press would come by and effectively claim ownership for all of the advances being made that year in the studio.

One of the cooler revelations from Emericks' book is that the orchestra breakdown during the bridge of Yellow Submarine is actually the first example of the "grab a bunch of EMI library tapes, cut them up, and then re-attach them" techniques that the Apple guys used. George Martin always refers to "Mr. Kite" when it comes to this, but according to Geoff, they first used this technique during the Revolver sessions on Yellow Submarine. It's amazing that the parts fit as well as they do - but it's totally random parts.

Spitz's book is fine, but totally full of shit.

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 06:50 (twenty years ago)

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