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Parts from some of the tracks were played on the telly the other day, and I'd like to hear more before I actually buy the album.

 

I've been a fan of the Beatles since 1963, and love most of their stuff, but I'm not sure about this updating. I suppose they've completely ruined (again) The Long and Winding Road, of which the recorded track was not how Paul McCartney originally wanted it.

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Parts from some of the tracks were played on the telly the other day, and I'd like to hear more before I actually buy the album.

 

I've been a fan of the Beatles since 1963, and love most of their stuff, but I'm not sure about this updating. I suppose they've completely ruined (again) The Long and Winding Road, of which the recorded track was not how Paul McCartney originally wanted it.

 

It's more as he wanted it to sound on 'Let It Be ...... Naked', and the triple-live album 'Wings Over America'

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The Long and Winding Road, mercifully escaped the remixing of George and Giles Martin.

 

I bought the album last week and despite being a Beatles fan of 23 years, was left wondering what on earth it's all about.

 

True, some songs work, but to me it's akin to rearranging the original manuscripts of the Bible. In other words, the legacy of the Beatles shouldn't be messed with. It's clever in places, but so was the Beatles Movie Medley (single released in 1982) which segued various tracks into one long and decent melody.

 

But it's worth getting simply for George Harrison's songs. One remix places Ringo's driving drumbeat from Tomorrow Never Knows onto George's Within You Without You. (Incredibly, Lennon's brief vocal 'Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream' sounds uncannily like Liam Gallagher!) The version of Something which comes in without the drum fill is also gorgeous.

 

And George Martin's newly recorded strings onto George Harrison's original demo of While My Guitar (the only new recordings supposedly added to the album) turns a beautiful song into an all-time classic.

 

As I said, some of it's clever, quite interesting, but a 'must-have' it certainly ain't.

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