REVIEWS U.K. 1960s


November-December 2009 andy@shindig-magazine.com THERE’S MUSIC... AND THEN THERE’S THE BEATLES


Love ’em or loath ’em, there’s no denying that they kicked down the doors for virtually every guitar ’n’ vocal band that followed. Here’s the most talked about back catalogue overhaul of all-time. By ANDY MORTEN.


THE BEATLES Please Please Me With The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night Beatles For Sale Help! Rubber Soul Revolver Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Magical Mystery Tour The Beatles Yellow Submarine Abbey Road Let It Be Past Masters All Apple/EMI CDs In Stereo Apple/EMI 16-CD box set In Mono Apple/EMI 13-CD box set


obvious and immense – to running a series of in-depth reviews of the new products, to merely paying lip service with our tongues firmly in our cheeks... if that isn’t mixing too many face- based metaphors. My own offering was simply “Comprehensive overhaul of popular ’60s beat combo’s back catalogue”. Kind of makes you realise how little needs to be said really. In the end, we threw things open to our writers, most of


whom responded with a series of missives, essays, rants and off-the-cuff doodles that we decided were as good as anything else we could come up with in the face of such blanket coverage elsewhere in the media. This isn’t a review – in fact, the product is barely mentioned. If


OK, listen up – before some of our more puritanical readers scream and dash off to cancel their subscriptions at the mere sight of those four familiar faces – we’ve debated long and hard about whether to cover The Beatles remastering campaign at all. Alternative suggestions ran the gamut from a themed issue


focusing on Shindig!-friendly bands like WeAll Together, The Merry-Go-Round and The Spongetones – whose debts are


you want to find out about how good the music sounds, how cute the little facsmilie sleeves are or how expensive the box sets are, go to your local retailer and buy them. If you want to pontificate on the decision not to issue the mono albums as separates or compare the backwards guitar parts in the different mixes of ‘I’m Only Sleeping’, join an internet forum. My tuppenceworth? We bought both box sets and they sound fucking amazing. They’ll be played again and again.


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