11/22/2023 0 Comments Yellow submarine lyrics uncle albert![]() ![]() But there’s really clever people that know everything, and I have to tap into them, Mike Heatley and Kevin Howlett, and there’s Matthew Cocker at Abbey Road, who’s the archivist. I’m the person that, I suppose, makes decisions and does these things. I don’t really know until we start looking into it. “People ask me about outtakes on Rubber Soul. “I didn’t know anything honestly, not until I start doing it,” he confides. But Martin says he only ever finds out what is available to each project from the expert archivists on the reissue team. “ Revolver is an album of inspiration and discovery, Let It Be was a period of time where they were being retrospective and wanted to back to how they were before they had all these gifts they got given.”Įven committed Beatles devotees have been surprised at the depth of unissued recordings served up in the new editions, which run to 28 early takes from the sessions and three home demos. ![]() “The analogy is, I’m listening to a band unwrapping their presents, as opposed to a band that have all their presents around the floor, and they’re just basically ignoring them. “I found the outtakes really entertaining, especially as I’d been working on Get Back,” he notes. That augments a listening experience as arresting in 2022 as it was 56 years ago. Martin started listening to the sonic potential to bring the original Revolver to a new audience, with the addition of extensive previously unreleased material. So it was that Martin and engineer Sam Okell jumped out of the chronological sequence that had seen them oversee the expanded editions of all The Beatles’ studio albums from 1967 onwards, and most recently the Super Deluxe configuration of Let It Be, released in October 2021. I did a couple of tests and we can now do Revolver.” This turned into a development where we could actually open up the mixers, we could take guitar, bass and drums and separate them. Everyone hunkered down and worked in their boxes. “It wasn’t until working on the Peter Jackson film, which went on for way longer than we thought it would do because of the pandemic. “The simple answer is, it was impossible to do, because the technology wasn’t in place, or, if you like, the technology they had at the time meant there was very little to mix in any way. ‘When are you going do Revolver?’” says the producer of the landmark 1966 album’s new stereo mix. “That’s always been the question that I’ve been asked. ![]() As he discusses the new deluxe editions of an unforgettable staging post in the peerless recording history of The Beatles, Giles Martin has a straightforward reply ready when people ask “Why Revolver, why now?” ![]()
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