“Beatles Revolver Milestone Remembered” plus 3 |
- Beatles Revolver Milestone Remembered
- More Beatles Remasters Coming in October
- Beatles piano up for sale
- The Beatles Red and Blue Collections Remastered
| Beatles Revolver Milestone Remembered Posted: 13 Aug 2010 04:45 AM PDT 08/13/2010 Gibson has an in-depth look back on this momentous anniversary: The Beatles' recorded output remains staggering to this day. When the band released Revolver in August 1966, it was their seventh LP in just over three years (not to mention the scores of singles released during that time that did not appear on their British albums). Beyond mere volume, the band broke ground for all of popular music with nearly every release, adding elements of folk, classical, Indian and other new strands of music to the core material of rock and roll, namely R&B and country. Of all the band's records, perhaps no album took a longer leap forward than the album that was nearly titled Beatles on Safari. When the group entered the studio that April, they were between grueling tours. In fact, the tour that would follow the recording of Revolver would indeed be the band's last. But tired as they were of deafening (and non-listening) crowds and hotel room imprisonment, the band was as vitalized as ever when it came time to record. They were eager to experiment with produced sound to the point that they no longer took into consideration whether a recording was even possible to reproduce live on stage. This was certainly the case with the sound effects on "Yellow Submarine" and the backward guitar tracks on "I'm Only Sleeping." Likewise, the band employed ornate orchestration on "Eleanor Rigby," as well as soulful horns on "Got to Get You into My Life" and tabla, sitar and tambura on George Harrison's "Love You To." And on the album closer, "Tomorrow Never Knows," the band and production team threw everything from tape loops to untried (and illegal with Abbey Road policy pushers) mic placement and speaker employment in order to get the otherworldly sound that blew the minds of so many in the rapidly growing psychedelic scene. - more on this story Click here to read today's full report Preview and Purchase Beatles CDs
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| More Beatles Remasters Coming in October Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:04 AM PDT 08/12/2010 The two double-disc sets, better known as the "Red" (1962-1966) and "Blue" (1967-1970) albums, will include an expanded booklet with original liner notes, rare pictures of the Fab Four and written essays by Bill Flanagan, the editorial director and senior vice president at VH1. When they were released in 1973, the "Red" and "Blue" albums were the first compilations of the band's music since their break-up three years before. The collections were assembled by manager Allen Klein and were approved by the band themselves. The collection of early material rose to #3 on both the U.S. and U.K. charts, while the latter-era collection hit #2 in England and #1 in the States. - more on this story Click here to read today's full report Preview and Purchase Beatles CDs
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| Posted: 10 Aug 2010 06:13 PM PDT A piano used by the Beatles at London's famed Abbey Road studios is set to go under the hammer in August. The battered Challen upright piano, covered in cigarette burns and coffee stains, can be heard on hits such as Paperback Writer and Tomorrow Never Knows, both recorded in Abbey Road's Studio Three in 1966. The piano also features on Pink Floyd's 1973 Dark Side of the Moon LP. 'I think it is the first instrument from the Abbey Road studios to come on the open market,' says Stephen Maycock, the consultant specialist for Beatles memorabilia at Bonhams auction house. 'The piano has had quite a few knocks. It's had coffee cups placed on it and it's got cigarette burns,' he added. 'It's a working instrument that was used pretty much every day of its working life, and it's got the scars to prove it. 'But it still plays well and sounds great.' The instrument retired from service in the 1980s and is now set to be sold at auction at the Vintage Goodwood festival in West Sussex, southeast England, on August 15. Bonhams expects the piano to fetch between STG100,000 ($A172,562) and STG150,000 ($A258,843). This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php | ||||||||||
| The Beatles Red and Blue Collections Remastered Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:08 PM PDT by Paul Cashmere - August 11 2010 The Beatles` record label Apple Corps Ltd will reissued remastered versions of the `Red` (1962-1966) and `Blue` (1967-1970 albums in October. The albums, originally released in 1973, will both be 2CD packages with an expanded booklet featuring the original liner notes, rare photos and newly written essays by Bill Flanagan. The 'Red' and 'Blue' compilations were the first compilations from The Beatles after they broke up in 1970. 'Red' and 'Blue' were remastered at Abbey Road Studios in London by the same team of engineers who remastered the original UK albums. EMI will release the albums on October 15. Tracks are: 1962-1966 (Red) album: 1. Love Me Do (The Beatles 1962-1966) 1967-1970 (Blue) album: 1. Strawberry Fields Forever (The Beatles 1967-1970)
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