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Ron Nasty said
Ringo showed off the Revolver box in an Instagram video yesterday…

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And the first pictures of the package have appeared…

Vinyl…

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CD…

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So, obvious choice really, Robert Freeman’s rejected cover is being used for the Sessions’ discs. There’s also no sign of a Blu-Ray disc which still has me scratching my head over Giles’ comment that it was “all going a bit immersive too,” which suggested a 5.1 surround mix.

  

Looks like we are very close to an announcment then! YEAH!!! Cant wait for it!

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Looks like the immersive mix might be available for streaming – Talk about it going on apple music. 

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New video from The Beatles YouTube channel.

Also links to pre order at Amazon UK

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Tony Japanese said

New video from The Beatles YouTube channel.

Also links to pre order at Amazon UK

https://amzn.eu/d/cKYt3Xp

Mods it might be worth updating the title of the thread!

  

AHH I need the german amazon preorder link mccartney-shrug_01_gifpaul-mccartneya-hard-days-night-john-3a-hard-days-night-ringo-13a-hard-days-night-ringo-6a-hard-days-night-george-4

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Equally as important as the YT trailer/ad, is the blurb that goes with it…

Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream…

On 28th October, ‘Revolver ‘ will be released worldwide in a range of beautifully presented, newly-mixed and expanded Special Edition packages.

The new stereo mix, sourced directly from the original four-track master tapes, is brought forth in stunning clarity with the help of cutting edge de-mixing technology developed by Peter Jackson’s WingNut Films Productions Ltd.

Showcasing GRAMMY-winning original album artwork created by Klaus Voormann, the Super Deluxe CD and vinyl house a beautiful book featuring Paul McCartney ‘s foreword, an introduction by Giles Martin, an enlightening essay by Questlove, and insightful chapters by Kevin Howlett.

Available across 5CD/4LP Super Deluxe, 2CD Deluxe, Picture Disk, 1LP, 1CD, Download and Streaming. Dolby Atmos Mixes + original mono mix accompany never-before-released session recordings and demos, plus the “Paperback Writer ” and “Rain ” EP.

Pre-order now: https://TheBeatles.lnk.to/Revolver2022

I think there will be unhappiness that the Dolby Atmos Mixes will have to be bought separately by the looks of it.

Here’s a look at a few other of the formats…

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And all this pre the official announcement!

Please buy using @Joe’s Amazon link if possible. Joe gets a bit back for it and it helps support the website.

Maybe someone can put in the link…

(Side note: @KyleKartan you do not need to quote every post you reply to, especially if directly above your post. You can use the a-hard-days-night-ringo-8 smiley to indicate you’re reacting to a post somewhere above. It can be annoying, especially with longer posts, to have to scroll through the same post twice for a one or two line comment. You’ll have noticed most of don’t quote posts unless necessary, and then usually only relevant parts. Hope you don’t mind me saying, just one of my pet peeves.)

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@Ron Nasty My bad! Apologies!

 

Funny, if you browse the YT Channel (in germany) the trailer cant be found! 

 

If someone can provide me with a amazon.de link for the CD sets I’d glady buy them over the bible link tohave you guys benefit from it!

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No apologies necessary @KyleKartan, it was just advice on how people here use the forum. All forums work differently. We try to keep quoting down to either direct lines that are being responded to or old posts that are being dragged up (often happens in the news thread where something has been posted and there’s follow-up a few weeks/months later).

The YT video can’t be found in the UK either. Makes you wonder if it was up for a few minutes to test ahead of announcement and then taken out of the index until the announcement, with @Tony Japanese having caught it while it was indexed and the link remaining valid.

(Another tip, it’s “I am” or “I’m”, never “Iam”.)

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I’ve been checking amazon.de every 30 minutes for the pre order page. No Luck yet. Maybe they really were to early…the uk link is working but doesn’t let you buy it. 

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“never-before-released session recordings and demos”

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The add was just released on their instagram page. Should be available soon now!

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The 2022 mix of “taxman” is up on spotify as a taster. See what you think. 

 

SUPER DELUXE [5CD + 100-page hardbound book in slipcase | digital audio collection]

  • Digital Audio Collection (stereo & hi res 96kHz/24-bit stereo + mono + Dolby Atmos)

Looks like you have to buy the 5 disc to get the dolby.

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From Rob Sheffields article in rolling stone – he’s heard the set and picked some highlights.
 

Rain ” (Take 5, Actual Speed)

The Beatles got that dreamy psychedelic buzz on the “Paperback Writer ” B-side by recording the instrumental track extra-fast, then slowing it down. But there’s no real way to prepare for the shock of hearing them play it live at the original manic speed—Ringo turns into all four Ramones at once.  Beatlemaniacs have always marveled at the drums on “Rain ”—as he once said, “I know me and my playing, and then there’s ‘Rain .’” Ringo Hive, rise.

Yellow Submarine ” (Songwriting Work Tapes 1 & 2)

Brace yourself: Everything we thought we knew about “Yellow Submarine ” is wrong. The whole world agrees on the standard origin story—a Paul ditty whipped up fast as an Uncle Ringo kiddie chant, something John grimly tolerated. But don’t be shocked if you catch yourself shedding a tear hearing John sing it. The chorus was Paul, but the verses started out as John in his sad confessional mode, with folkie guitar picking. He sings, “In the place where I was born / No one cared, no one cared / And the name that I was born / No one cared, no one cared.” The demo, on his home tape recorder, is a heart-wrenching childhood memory ballad, halfway between “Julia ” and “Strawberry Fields Forever .” 

“I had no idea until I started going through the outtakes,” Martin says. “This was a Lennon-McCartney thing. I said to Paul, ‘I always thought this was a song that you wrote and gave to Ringo and that John was like, ‘Oh, bloody ‘Yellow Submarine ’’” Not at all. That’s like a Woody Guthrie song. But it’s beautiful in a way, where you realize that there’s so much depth behind it” But still, what a drag to imagine a world without the Ringo version. “When you listen to the outtakes, even knowing the beauty of that John version, you know why Ringo ended up singing it,” Martin says. “And it was acutely, let’s face it, the right decision to make.”

Eleanor Rigby ” (Speech Before Take 4)

 

George Martin rehearses the classical musicians for “Eleanor Rigby ,” translating between them and Paul. They ask Paul whether to use vibrato on the strings, but Paul defers to Mr. Martin, who decides the vibrato would add the wrong touch of sweetness. “Let’s do it without, then,” he says. “So you only hear the vibrato when you’ve got something to say.” What a perfect proverb of his production philosophy, in one line. Marin always avoided adding anything pointless–which says a lot about how Revolver  turned out as great as it did.

Love You To ” (Take 7)

George’s sitar-and-tablas hymn takes on a new dimension, with Paul singing a delicate harmony. It adds a bit of lightness to the song, but somehow you can see how they knew lightness didn’t work for this austere song. Working so hard on a harmony part, but then discarding it when it doesn’t fit—the Beatles’ musical wisdom at work.

For No One ” (Take 10)

Ringo asks, “What, shall I just keep it straight then? Not do anything else?” Paul urges him, “No, do!” The whole Revolver  creative mission in one moment. As you can imagine, hearing the last two surviving Beatle brothers in this piano-and-drums instrumental duet on “For No One ” is a massive emotional gut-punch.

I Want To Tell You ” (Take 4)

George had a tendency to get stuck on song titles. After writing “Love You To ,” he kept calling it “Granny Smith” (after the apple) because he couldn’t think of anything else. “I Want To Tell You ” is one of his greatest songs,  but it’s pretty damn obvious the title should be the hook “I Want To Tell You .” (And this is the guy who mocked Paul for the title “I’ve Got a Feeling.”) When Mr. Martin asks, “What do you call it, George?” the others crack up. John sneers, “‘Granny Smith, Part Friggin’ Two!’” Even the diplomat Ringo can’t help dropping a hint: “’Tell You,’ that’s a nice one. ‘Tell You.’” Infinite patience, thy name is Ringo.

Here, There And Everywhere ” (Take 6)

Macca takes a solo guitar stroll through his love-never-dies valentine, without the others’ breathy harmonies. Somehow, hearing him wing it in this loose version simply confirms that “Here, There, and Everywhere” is the king of all Paul ballads. There is none higher.

And Your Bird Can Sing ” (First Version with Giggling & Take 2)
John always dismissed this satirically soulful gem—a typical John move when he scared himself with how nakedly he exposed himself in a song. Anthology 2  already had a version of the much-loved “giggling” take, but this has one version with an alternate duet vocal, and one that’s just hardcore giggles, 144 seconds of John and Paul face to face, the headphones on, howling with laughter into each other’s mouths. Imagine the joy of being half of that duet. It’s a key to how the whole Revolver  Deluxe Edition feels.

 
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Joe set up the link in my signature to get you to the Amazon in your country.

Here’s the Germany link https ://www.amazon.de/Revolver -Remastered-Beatles/dp/B0025KVLTC/?tag=beatbibl06-21
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Be sure to bookmark the link and/or add it to you phone’s home screen.

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From Rob Sheffields article in rolling stone – he’s heard the set and picked some highlights.
 

  

Thanks for this…I nearly always hate Sheffield’s tastes, his cutesiness as a writer, etc. But I did buy and mostly enjoy his anthology of short pieces “Dreaming The Beatles”, so…

GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty. 

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Joe set up the link in my signature to get you to the Amazon in your country.

Here’s the Germany link https ://www.amazon.de/Revolver -Remastered-Beatles/dp/B0025KVLTC/?tag=beatbibl06-21

(delete the space between the s and the :colon)

Be sure to bookmark the link and/or add it to you phone’s home screen.

  

Thats the link to the 2009 edition. Thanks anyway 🙂

I got a preorder for the big set through a different retailer. When amazon finally comes down to put them online Ill order there and delete the first order!

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Taxman is up on Apple and Spotify. So crisp! I can’t wait for Eleanor Rigby .

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KyleKartan said

Ahhh Girl said

Joe set up the link in my signature to get you to the Amazon in your country.

Here’s the Germany link https ://www.amazon.de/Revolver -Remastered-Beatles/dp/B0025KVLTC/?tag=beatbibl06-21

(delete the space between the s and the :colon)

Be sure to bookmark the link and/or add it to you phone’s home screen.

  

Thats the link to the 2009 edition. Thanks anyway 🙂

I got a preorder for the big set through a different retailer. When amazon finally comes down to put them online Ill order there and delete the first order!

  

Sorry, it is the link to German Amazon in general. Once you get to the page, search for the item you want. Joe gets a percentage from what you buy – music and everything else too.

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Here’s the full announcement from Beatles.com…

ANNOUNCING REVOLVER SPECIAL EDITIONS

– AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE OCTOBER 28, 2022 –

GET THE BEATLES’ REVOLVER INTO YOUR LIFE WITH NEWLY MIXED AND EXPANDED SPECIAL EDITION PACKAGES

Revolver Album Presented in New Stereo and Dolby Atmos Mixes + Original Mono Mix; Expanded with Never Before Released Session Recordings and Demos
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Paperback Writer ” and “Rain ” EP

Revolver : The Beatles’ 1966 album that changed everything. Spinning popular music off its axis and ushering in a vibrant new era of experimental, avant-garde sonic psychedelia, Revolver brought about a cultural sea change and marked an important turn in The Beatles’ own creative evolution. With Revolver , John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison , and Ringo Starr set sail together across a new musical sea.

On October 28, Revolver will be released worldwide in a range of beautifully presented, newly mixed and expanded Special Edition packages by Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe. The Special Edition’s new stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes of the album’s opening track “Taxman ” make their digital release debuts with today’s announcement and preorder launch.

The Revolver album’s 14 tracks have been newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell in stereo and Dolby Atmos, and the album’s original mono mix is sourced from its 1966 mono master tape. Revolver ’s sweeping new Special Edition follows the universally acclaimed remixed and expanded Special Editions of Sgt. Pepper ’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (2017), The BEATLES (‘White Album ’) (2018), Abbey Road (2019), and Let It Be (2021).

All the new Revolver releases feature the album’s new stereo mix, sourced directly from the original four-track master tapes. The audio is brought forth in stunning clarity with the help of cutting edge de-mixing technology developed by the award-winning sound team led by Emile de la Rey at Peter Jackson’s WingNut Films Productions Ltd. The physical and digital Super Deluxe collections also feature the album’s original mono mix, 28 early takes from the sessions and three home demos, and a four-track EP with new stereo mixes and remastered original mono mixes for “Paperback Writer ” and “Rain ”. The album’s new Dolby Atmos mix will be released digitally.

Revolver Special Edition (Super Deluxe): 63 tracks

  • Digital Audio Collection (stereo & hi res 96kHz/24-bit stereo + mono + Dolby Atmos)
  • 5CD (stereo & mono audio) with 100-page hardbound book in a 12.56” x 12.36” slipcase
  • 4LP+7-inch EP (stereo & mono audio) on half-speed mastered 180-gram vinyl with 100-page hardbound book in a 12.56” x 12.36” slipcase
    • DISC 1: Revolver (New stereo mix): 14 tracks
    • DISCS 2 & 3: Sessions (stereo & mono): 31 tracks
    • DISC 4: Revolver (Original mono master): 14 tracks
    • DISC 5: Revolver EP: 4 tracks
    o “Paperback Writer ” & “Rain ” (New stereo mixes & Original mono mixes remastered)

Revolver Special Edition (Deluxe): 29 tracks

  • 2CD in digipak with a 40-page booklet abridged from the Super Deluxe book
    • DISC 1: Revolver (New stereo mix): 14 tracks
    • DISC 2: Sessions highlights + “Paperback Writer ” & “Rain ” (New stereo mixes): 15 tracks

Revolver Special Edition (Standard): 14 tracks

  • Digital (New album mix in stereo & hi res 96kHz/24-bit stereo + new Dolby Atmos mix)
  • 1CD in digipak (New stereo mix)
  • 1LP (New stereo mix) on half-speed mastered 180-gram vinyl
  • Limited Edition 1LP vinyl picture disc (New stereo mix) illustrated with the album cover art

Across all the configurations, Revolver ’s Special Edition showcases the GRAMMYÒ-winning original album artwork created by The Beatles’ longtime friend, German bassist and artist Klaus Voormann. The Super Deluxe CD and vinyl collections’ beautiful book features Paul McCartney ’s foreword; an introduction by Giles Martin; a thoughtful, enlightening essay by Questlove; and insightful chapters and detailed track notes by Beatles historian, author, and radio producer Kevin Howlett. The book is illustrated with rare and previously unpublished photos, never before published images of handwritten lyrics, tape boxes, and recording sheets, as well as 1966 print ads and extracts from Voormann’s graphic novel, birth of an icon: REVOLVER.

Following the December 1965 release of their groundbreaking album, Rubber Soul , and after wrapping up that year’s tour dates, a late decision to cancel shooting plans for a third Beatles film, A Talent For Loving, would have a significant effect on the creation of Revolver . The time allocated for filming and recording songs for a soundtrack was removed from the band’s schedule, allowing the group to take a four-month break before the Revolver recording sessions began. “One thing’s for sure,” John said a few weeks before the band’s return to the studio, “the next LP is going to be very different.”

On April 6, 1966, The Beatles gathered in Studio Three at EMI Studios (now called Abbey Road Studios) for their first Revolver recording session. With their producer George Martin flanked by recording engineer Geoff Emerick and technical engineer Ken Townsend, they went in blazing, starting with “Tomorrow Never Knows ”. John’s ethereal vocals (fed from his mic through a rotating Leslie speaker), innovative tape loops – including Paul saying ‘ah, ah, ah, ah’, which when sped up produced a sound similar to a seagull’s screech – converge with Ringo’s thunderous drum pattern, George’s tamboura drone, and a backwards guitar solo. “Tomorrow Never Knows ” propelled The Beatles and popular music into exciting new terrain. In an interview before Revolver ’s August 5, 1966 release, Paul explained to NME, “We did it because I, for one, am sick of doing sounds that people can claim to have heard before.” Revolver ’s Special Edition also features The Beatles’ first take of “Tomorrow Never Knows ” from the April 6 session and a mono mix that was issued on a small number of records before the LP was recut with the correct version.

The next day, The Beatles returned to Studio Three, completed most of their “Tomorrow Never Knows ” recording, and started work on the first version of “Got To Get You Into My Life ”. As heard on the Special Edition’s Sessions One, this recording sounds very different from the released track. Revolver ’s Special Edition also spotlights two more stages of the finished track’s evolution: an unreleased mono mix and a special mix highlighting the overdubs of three trumpets and two tenor saxophones.

One of George’s most important songwriting influences is heard in “Love You To ”. The previous year, his deepening interest in Indian music and learning how to play sitar had brought him together with Ravi Shankar, who became his close friend and occasional musical collaborator. The Beatles began recording “Love You To ” in Studio Two on April 11, the third anniversary of the UK release of “From Me To You ”. Taken with the whole of Revolver , the short three-year span between these songs illuminates the band’s astonishing creative progression. “It was one of the first tunes I wrote for sitar,” George later recalled. “This was the first song where I consciously tried to use the sitar and tabla on the basic track.” With George on sitar and vocals, Paul on tamboura and vocal harmony, and university student Anil Bhagwat on tabla, the song’s intricate arrangement began to take shape over several takes. Overdubs included an additional harmony vocal by Paul, omitted from the released version but now faded up in a mix of Take 7. Revolver ’s Special Edition also features Take 1 and a previously undocumented and only recently discovered rehearsal for the song with George playing sitar and Paul on tamboura.

Between April 13 and 16 in Studios Two and Three, The Beatles recorded their chart-topping “Paperback Writer ” single (with layered harmonies, riffing guitars, and Paul’s booming bass lines) and its B-side “Rain ” (achieved with tape machines slowed down for the recording and mixing processes). Prior to the single’s release on June 10 (May 30 in the U.S.), The Beatles spent a couple of days away from recording to shoot several promotional films for both songs with director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who would later direct the Let It Be film. In addition to the songs’ new stereo mixes and original mono mixes, Revolver ’s Special Edition features “Paperback Writer ” Takes 1 and 2 – Backing track and two versions of “Rain ” Take 5: one at the actual speed The Beatles played it and the other, a slowed down evolutionary mix used to create the master tape.

The album’s opening track, “Taxman ”, was recorded across three Studio Two sessions in April and May. One of three songs on the album by George, in “Taxman ” he expresses his frustration with the UK’s ‘super-rich’ tax rate at the time (90%), with a vocal wink to the “Batman” TV theme song. In a 12-hour session on April 20, The Beatles recorded and mixed the first version of “And Your Bird Can Sing ” (for this song, the Special Edition features two Version One/Take 2 recordings and Version Two’s Take 5), then began recording “Taxman ”. They returned to the song the next day, laying down George’s foundational guitar, Paul’s bass and his dynamic, raga-style guitar solo, and Ringo’s drums and cowbell. Revolver ’s Special Edition also features Take 11, with falsetto backing vocals by John and Paul with different words from the released version.

Yellow Submarine ” was recorded on May 26 and June 1 in Studios Three and Two, respectively. The iconic, sunny rite of singalong passage for children everywhere and a favorite for the young-at-heart began quite differently than it finished. Parts 1 and 2 of the Special Edition’s songwriting work tape for “Yellow Submarine ” reveal the song’s evolution from a rather sad verse sung by John over acoustic guitar – “In the town where I was born / No one cared, no one cared…” – to its adaptation by John and Paul to suit the jollier subject matter of the chorus. Revolver ’s Special Edition also includes “Yellow Submarine ” Take 4 and highlighted sound effects (a complex and merry sonic seascape, including Mal Evans’ sand-shoveling and Brian Jones’ glass-clinking) for listeners to journey with The Beatles through the song’s progression. “We were really starting to find ourselves in the studio,” Ringo explained later. “The songs got more interesting, so with that the effects got more interesting.”

The Beatles’ final Revolver recording session took place in Studio Two on the evening of June 21, 1966 into the wee hours of June 22, just one day before the band traveled to Munich to start their international summer tour. The lyrics for “She Said She Said ” drew upon the memory of a disorienting day of misadventure The Beatles had experienced in Los Angeles. Having received George’s help to create a whole new song from some unfinished fragments, John led the group through the rehearsals and recording while the clock ticked away the last remaining session time. Revolver ’s Special Edition also features John’s home demo for the song and Take 15 – Backing track rehearsal, with its introductory speech revealing convivial banter between The Beatles as they worked out the arrangement (later praised by composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein as “remarkable” with “real inventions”).

By 4am on June 22, The Beatles finished “She Said She Said ”, wrapping up their Revolver recording sessions. The album’s final mono and stereo mixes were completed that evening, and the next day The Beatles were once again off and running on tour. They would next return to Abbey Road in November 1966 to begin recording Sgt. Pepper ’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Released on August 5, 1966, Revolver spent seven weeks at number one on the UK albums chart, and a double A-side single with “Eleanor Rigby ” and “Yellow Submarine ” topped the UK singles chart for four weeks in August and September. In the U.S., Capitol released an 11-track version of Revolver , which spent six weeks at number one on Billboard’s albums chart. “I’m Only Sleeping”, “And Your Bird Can Sing ”, and “Doctor Robert ” had been previously plucked from the sessions for Capitol’s North American release of the Yesterday And Today compilation album in June. That album’s sleeve was originally printed with the infamous “butcher cover” before pre-release controversy resulted in Capitol recalling and re-covering well over one million mono and stereo LPs with an innocuous photo of The Beatles gathered around a trunk.

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Interview with Giles in Variety

Giles Martin Details Beatles’ ‘Revolver’ Deluxe Edition and Remix: In 1966 Sessions, ‘You Can Hear Them Unwrapping Their Presents’

One interesting part of the interview is that, in looking at Revolver for a Deluxe, the question was whether there was enough of interest to make it worthwhile, or whether it should be done as a set with Rubber Soul , but was happy to find enough that a combined set wasn’t necessary.

Which, of course, considering he’s looked at the sessions for both albums, suggests Rubber Soul  may be next.

He also talks about how important, ironically, the pandemic has been to developing the technology needed to do this. I remember saying sometime back (before Get Back was released) that if Peter Jackson’s de-mixing AI was as good as he was making it sound, that it opened up the possibility of being able to do the pre-Pepper albums properly, and it does seem Jackson’s AI is the great leap forwards.

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