Anyone who has ever met me and had the time to talk about music and The Beatles has heard this story from me a million times. So here's a million and one.
Imagine what it would be like if your music that everyone had listened to for decades, that everyone knew the songs, the albums and everything that went with it was, in the end, not the way you originally recorded it? Alteration were made and you just said "yeah, that sounds fine"?
Well, that's the true history of most of The Beatles recordings which were all recorded in MONO and had stereo mixes later. Often, the band was not even in the studio but was just around to listen to the final mixes.
You know how you listen to most of the Beatles songs and the bass is on one side and vocals on the other? This is SO NOT the way it was recorded or meant to be heard. It was just a new invention called stereo sound. By doing this, it does alter the songs more than you think!!
So these are from my collection, which were recorded from Japanese vinyl re-issues from the 80's.
NOT the new remixed versions.
These are from the original vinyl.
The way they were meant to be heard.....in MONO.
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