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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band  Mono Almost 50 Years Ago Today!
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 07, 2014  |  29 comments
After a few month’s break during which the Beatles were apart they reconvened on November 24th 1966 to record “Strawberry Fields Forever” the first song for the as yet untitled new Beatles album. It was among the most complex and difficult to produce songs the group had yet attempted and it took months to complete and mix to everyone’ satisfaction.

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Revolver   Spins Seductively Psychedelic in AAA Mono Reissue
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 06, 2014  |  32 comments
Rubber Soul was released on Friday, December 3rd 1965 three short years after The Beatles first entered Abbey Road Studios and met George Martin. It was their fifth album and the final one engineered by Norman Smith who was promoted a few months after Rubber Soul’s release to EMI’s A&R (artist and repertoire) Dept.

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Rubber Soul   Reissue Rules!
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 05, 2014  |  39 comments
Help! was released in August of 1965. The Beatles needed to produce another album for release well before Christmas. But they first were obliged to visit America at the end of the month to once again play The Hollywood Bowl.

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You CANNOT Attend the New York or Los Angeles Beatles Mono Box Launch
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 04, 2014  |  23 comments
The Beatles in Mono box launches Tuesday, September 9th. UMe is sponsoring events on both coasts and you cannot sign up to possibly attend because it has already SOLD OUT.

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A Sign of the Times
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 04, 2014  |  3 comments
A Massachussetts-based reader was alarmed by a sign in the window of Tune Street his local audio store:

"All CDs & DVDs MUST GO 50% OFF BLOWOUT SALE".

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Help!   Mono Reissue Mirrors Original
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 03, 2014  |  23 comments
After the unexpected sophistication of “A Hard Day’s Night”, the goofy follow up movie that probably served as The Monkees’ TV show template was disappointing. The 14 song Parlophone Help album was not.

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"Beatles For Sale" Is The Best Yet In the Box——Could There Be Better To Come?
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 02, 2014  |  19 comments
"Product", "Filler", whatever you want to call it, the appropriately titled Beatles For Sale was a "have to meet the two album a year schedule" interim album due out for the 1964 Christmas season—a hodgepodge return to covers, George really asserting his country and western licks, John feeling his inner Bob Dylan, John and Paul channeling the Everly Brothers, Ringo given a real chance to stretch out in the percussion department and Paul rocking, rolling and screaming on reissue and breaking your heart on one of his achingly beautiful ballads.

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"A Hard Day's Night" Mono Better Than Stereo?
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 01, 2014  |  18 comments
Back in 1964 American buyers of the mono "A Hard Day's Night" Soundtrack album (United Artists UAL 3366) got a better deal than did the ones who bought the "stereo" version. While the latter's instrumentals were in true stereo the Beatles songs were mangled by UA engineers into versions that were electronically reprocessed for stereo.

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"With the Beatles" Mono Reissue Beats the Original?
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 01, 2014  |  11 comments
Though the two originals have plenty of "mileage", they don't sound "chewed" and a great deal of high frequency energy remains in the grooves. Nonetheless, this new AAA reissue sounds tonally identical to the original.

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Eric Leefe Takes Delivery of his New Stereo
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 01, 2014  |  17 comments
Eric Leefe got his new stereo installed last weekend. He wanted to thank readers and acknowledge the outpouring of generosity from analogplanet.com readers so with his permission I pointed the iPhone camera at him.

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