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Always great to discover a mother with excellent taste!

Paul, smooth and silky; John, nasal and raw; George, a mixture of both. The combination of all three - and on paper it should make no sense - the texture is the purest of harmonies! Only The Everly Brothers and Simon & Garfunkel compare with the two part harmonies. George is underrated for his input

It’s the polar opposite of the exhausted three harmonising vocals on Because. Exuberant, thrilling and Prellies-fuelled - especially on the final, excited “yeah!” outburst

As always George had the most difficult harmony. John and Paul seemed to pounce on the 1 and 3 - leaving George to find the missing in between notes!

Sometimes words are irrelevant. Just close your eyes and listen!

YouTube video by Johnathon Lennothan The Beatles - Yes It Is - Isolated Vocals

Everyone’s heard the incredible (triple-tracked) three part harmonies on Because from 1969.

But four years prior to Abbey Road John, Paul and George recorded this far more subtle, emotional and raw vocal performance. Just so beautiful

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Now streaming!
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YouTube video by George Harrison - Topic It's Johnny's Birthday (Session Outtakes and Jams) (Take 1)

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YouTube video by Classic Rock Facts *NEWLY RELEASED 2025* - George Harrison interview from 1995

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YouTube video by REO Brothers REO Brothers - Abbey Road Medley (The Long One) | The Beatles #abbeyroad #thebeatles #reobrothers

This is rather wonderful from the superb REO Brothers

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YouTube video by 【ビートルズ雑談ch】 【リバランスド】ビートルズ、1962年スター・クラブ「夕陽に赤い帆」

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A rough listen, but there’s so much gold dust in there.

YouTube video by 【ビートルズ雑談ch】 【リバランスド】ビートルズ、1962年スター・クラブ「Shimmy Shake」またの名を「I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate」

As ever, Beatles fans across the world are doing the best work in remixing/restoring Beatles audio. Thanks to these diligent souls, the ropey Star-Club recordings are getting better all the time.

If PJ’s tech is the best out there, then surely it’s only a matter of time?

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If this happens a lot (which I think it will), the short term benefit will be that the box set will come down in price in a few months. The long term benefit will be that the new set of fans who watch Anthology on Disney+ will hopefully have a more affordable box. Not what Apple wanted, but hey!

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I suspect there’ll be an influx of people doing this. What a shame. This whole project could’ve been done so much better.

And the standalone was about £2!

Glad they’ve seen sense, but I hope not too many people have already paid for the boxset in order to get Anthology 4.

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If you’re interested, Macca’s The Lyrics book is £2 on Kindle today.

So it is!

YouTube video by Cristhofer_YT95CQ Stems deconstructing Revolution 1 The Beatles - (Isolated Tracks)

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New Beatles info!

Why Don’t we do it in the Road?, which was recorded on 9 October 1968, also makes a brief appearance on another White Album song recorded more than four months earlier.

Have a listen to this isolated backing track from 20/31 May 1968:

(From the fade out of Revolution 1 take 18)

“P.S. No. A.K. at M.S.G. if it’s uncool” is rather touching. Why didn’t you say that in January 1969, John!

YouTube video by Parlogram John Lennon Power to the People Deluxe Box Set | Unboxing & First Look

Full unboxing video here:

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Fascinating 1972 letters from John to Paul, proposing a joint performance with The Rolling Stones at the One to One gigs. And, perhaps, a show in Ireland.

They’d previously met up on 29th Jan ‘72 (the day before Bloody Sunday)

From the Power to the People book - thanks to @parlogram.bsky.social

Neither are a lot of old farts lime me anymore. But enough still will to cover costs. It’s a long term strategy - and streaming is the obvious way to attract a new audience. That’s why the new Anthologies are (mostly) already streaming. Hence, don’t hold your breath for COL/Rubber Soul box set etc

We’re not the target market anymore, unfortunately

Both collections have an accompanying book, but only available separately. Much of this will be focused on streaming - especially the Anthology series on Disney+ - the physical media is for old farts like me!

Man, they’re in for a nice surprise when they discover the Ringo album!

I get the feeling that Apple and Capitol/MPL are washing their hands of too much investment in an ever-ageing demographic (in which I’m happy to nestle) - and pretty well leaving all of that to the bootleggers