Beatles to join online music revolution

onehandle

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Thu Apr-13-06 12:44 PM
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Beatles to join online music revolution

LONDON (Reuters) - The Beatles are preparing to sell their songs online after years of refusing to take part in the Internet music boom, according to testimony given by the head of their record company.

Neil Aspinall, a former Beatles road manager and managing director of Apple Corps, was a witness in the company's trademark lawsuit against Apple Computer.

He said that the company was digitally remastering the entire Beatles catalogue, which would pave the way for selling the songs online.

"I think it would be wrong to offer downloads of the old masters when I am making new masters," he said in a written statement submitted to the High Court in London earlier this month.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/13/technology/beatles.reut/index.htm

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emulatorloo

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Thu Apr-13-06 12:59 PM
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1. "digitally remastering the entire Beatles catalogue"

Now that is good news, because some of those 1987 CD releases sound pretty shabby - Revolver and White Album, for example.

Hope they are thinking CD release and not just some crappy compressed downloadable format.

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ALago1

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Thu Apr-13-06 01:08 PM
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2. Ever notice...

...how their later album (Rubber Soul onward) mixes are hard panned to the right and left, including vocals? I wonder if that's due to the transfer to fake cd stereo rather than mono, or if its just due to them experimenting with new recording equipment.

Either way, hearing a true new stereo remix might be good. It worked wonders with the Pet Sounds reissue, though I do enjoy the mono mix just as much...

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Dr Fate

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Thu Apr-13-06 06:25 PM
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4. No- those bad stereo mixes were always like that.

Edited on Thu Apr-13-06 06:27 PM by Dr Fate

It was not really until Mystery Tour or even the White Album that George Martin got good at mixing the Beatles in stereo...

I swear by the monos myself...I even prefer the mono White Album...

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Dr Fate

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Thu Apr-13-06 06:23 PM
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3. That is why I buy the Japanese vinyl re-issues or original vinyl.

Edited on Thu Apr-13-06 06:28 PM by Dr Fate

Plus, the terrific (and superior) Mono mixes of Help, Rubber, Revolver, Pepper, Magical Mystery, Yellow Sub & White LP have yet to be remastered or even re-released...

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tuvor

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Thu Apr-13-06 07:53 PM
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5. That is good.

Because, surely, I have not had the opportunity to hear enough Beatles songs to last me several lifetimes.

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