Okay, I might personally prefer the mono mixes of Sgt. There has been some grumbling in certain quarters about the very idea of Giles Martin, and Sam Okell, even thinking about remixing The Beatles (“I tend towards the ‘fuck all wrong with it to begin with’ camp,” one Mr P McLoone told me during the week, over a mug of ale). With all that weight on it, I gave it a swerve – or at least what you could class as a swerve in comparison to the amount of time I’ve spent with everything else they did - and surely I wasn’t that only one? This fiftieth anniversary box – the last Beatles re-release for the foreseeable? Probably not – allows foolish doubters like me, then, to go at it again. Has it been written out of their history? I’m a fan of the Macca-sanctioned Let It Be… Naked where the Abbey Road boffins despectorised the tapes but, slightly surprisingly, there’s no sign of it here. There’s no getting around it, he did over-egg a song as great as ‘The Long And Winding Road’ with layers of mush. I’ve also heard McCartney giving out, repeatedly about what Phil Spector, at Lennon’s behest, did to the finished tapes. It's included here and is, while interesting and worth having, hardly the revelation we might have expected. I know the story about them all telling Glyn Johns to fuck off up the yard when he initially handed them his version of the sessions, Get Back. I know the stories about the rushed recordings in an unsuitable space with cameras - and other people - over their shoulders.
LET IT BE THE BEATLES PICS MOVIE
I, like even the more casual Beatles fan, have read more about The Beatles than I have about almost anyone else and I’ve seen a crappy bootleg of the Let It Be movie a few times - it’s not quite the disaster some have said it is, but it is short on laughs. I’ll even admit that such was my unfamiliarity with it – compared to everything else that bore their name – that when I bought Anthology 3 upon its release, I heard the versions of tracks like ‘Dig A Pony’ or ‘Two Of Us’ and thought ‘that’s a good song, how come I don’t know it?’. Maybe I read that comment from my colleague in the rockin’ fourth estate and thought he had a point. Why is that? Any record that has the title track, ‘Get Back’, ‘Across The Universe’ and the great ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’ on it has got to be good. I, of course, as a reasonably sensible person, bought Abbey Road separately, for, as I’ve said before, if side two of that final recorded work was all they had done, we’d still be talking about them, but I never got around to putting money on a counter for Let It Be. The thing is, it doesn’t include the last two Beatles albums. It is a thing of eternal joy and worth four times whatever ridiculous price I paid for, an initial investment that has been recouped a thousand times over. I replaced all the eighties vinyl – and the crappy first-round CDs – with The Beatles In Mono vinyl box/monolith when it was released. Spitting out this class of rot – that it’s the “worst one” – is a bit like grumbling about a Himalayan peak that isn’t quite as tall as the others it’s still pretty impressive, it’s still The Beatles.Ī confession here Let It Be is the only Beatles studio album I didn’t own – until last Wednesday. Is there such a thing as a runt in The Beatles’ litter? A ridiculous notion really when we’re talking about perhaps the most perfect discography in music but I do remember a journalist – a noble breed against whom I won’t countenance an ill word – saying something along the lines of how Let It Be was often the first Beatles record people bought – because of the cover – and it’s the worst one.
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