#1967-1970

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The Beatles pose with locals outside St. Pancras Old Church and Gardens on Pancras Road, London, July 28, 1968. This series of photos by Stephen Goldblatt from the Mad Day Out sessions became more well known as the inner sleeve fold out for the Red(1962-1966) and Blue(1967-1970) compilation albums.

John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison.

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Iain Clarke Strawberry Fields Forever remains the single most original and inventive record ever recorded under the banner of "pop". It sounds as fresh today as it ever did, partly because no one else has ever made a record like it. It has a "strangeness" unlike anything else. It demonstrates why the Beatles are in a league of their own.

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REEL TO REAL: The Beatles/1967-1970

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On The Jukebox: The Beatles - "1967-1970 (The Blue Album) (2023 Edition)'

Featuring Billy Preston on "Get Back" (yes, I know Billy was on a number of other Beatles tracks, this is the one he is specifically credited on here.)

[Same remastering and spatial audio mixing as "The Red Album" along with the "new" Beatles song, "Now And Then".]

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THE BEATLES FILE | 1962-1966 / 1967-1970 (2023 Edition)

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Album Review(s): The Beatles - 1962-1966 and 1967-1970 (2023 Editions)

Anyone who was born during or after the Beatles’ short recording career - and was therefore unable to her the band’s music contemporaneously - very likely cut their Fab teeth on 1962-1966 and 1967-1970, known colloquially as the Red Album and Blue Album, respectively.

These were and remain solid collections and excellent springboards to the proper LPs - plus red and blue vinyl was a novelty in the ’70s. And they’re back for 2023, stuffed full of additional songs - 12 for Red and nine on Blue - and updated mixes.

The reissues coincide with the “new Beatles song,” “Now and Then” - read Sound Bites’ review here - which closes the latter set less effectively than “The Long and Winding Road” has done for the past 50 years. That this record wasn’t rechristened 1970-2023 reveals the truth about “Now and Then;” thankfully, Apple chose to let it be where “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love” are concerned and they do not appear on the new Blue.

George Harrison fans have special reason to cheer as the Quiet Beatle benefits big-time from the additions, with “Roll Over Beethoven,” “If I Needed Someone,” “Taxman,” “Within You Without You” and “I Me Mine” now part of the three hours and 40 minutes of music between “Love Me Do” and “Now and Then.”

Though the Blue Album contains the meat of the Beatles’ recorded output, the Red Album is most improved.

New mixes of early tracks like “From Me to You” and “This Boy” pull Paul McCartney’s bass to the foreground and uncover previously inaudible subtleties in Harrison and John Lennon’s guitar playing. And the addition of a bunch of Revolver tracks lessens the bumpy transition from Red, which now closes with “Tomorrow Never Knows” to Blue, which opens with “Strawberry Fields Forever.”

In addition to fewer bonus songs, most of the Blue Album’s new mixes have been previously released on box sets. Only “Hey Bulldog” and “Old Brown Shoe” are literally - as in vintage 2023 - new mixes.

Listening back to these albums is like a trip back in time. And the the power of music memory is reinforced when the listener’s brain recalls decades-old sequencing only to be tripped up when “You Really Got a Hold on Me” or some other previously absent track appears.

Grade card: The Beatles - 1962-1966 and 1967-1970 (2023 Editions) - A+/A-

11/14/23