Late to the game, I just picked up my copy today of THE BEATLES 1962-1966 & THE BEATLES 1967-1970 (2023 Limited Edition) 6
LP box set. I originally wasn't going to get this since I own the
individual albums in several variations, but this was on sale for about
$100 and I couldn't pass it by this time. It has remixes of all of the
tracks and I wanted to give it a listen. Especially the stereo mixes of
the early material since Peter Jackson's software can pull apart the
individual elements out of a mono recording.
This compilation box set even includes The Beatles' "new" song "Now and Then", which was finished and released last year by the band's living members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, just won a best rock performance Grammy last Sunday. So THAT'S a bonus. (However, I do have a copy of the 7 inch single, but it is nice to have it on a full album with the rest of their body of work. I digress.)
What is interesting, the The Beatles 1962-1966 ("Red Album") and The Beatles 1967-1970 ("Blue Album" albums were my original "Gateway Drug to The Beatles" when I was a little kid. Around 1978 or so, The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton starred in the really terrible SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND movie that took the characters from The Beatles songs and placed them in a storyline. I won't get into the movie... but it was a shit movie. It isn't a knock against the musicians or some of my favorite actors like Steve Martin. Just a shit movie.
However, my father bought the soundtrack and I played it to death. Along with STARS ON 45 that had a Beatles medley with Beatle sound-a-like singers. He got so sick of me playing those albums as it was just cover songs of The Beatles that he decided to introduce me to "the real thing".
He got me the two compilation albums and from about 1979 to 1985, that was all of The Beatles that I would listen to at home on the turntable until I was introduced to the original SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND and ABBEY ROAD albums by my Uncle Mike. I immediately bought those two albums on cassette tape with my allowance money. Then in 1987, EMI/Capitol Records released the original UK Beatles albums onto CD when I was a sophomore in high school. My father offered me the gift of either getting a class ring or this brand new thing called a CD Player. Guess what I chose?
Then with money earned with my new job working at Godfather's Pizza when I was sixteen, I spent it on buying all of The Beatles album on CD that year. I rarely returned to listening to the "Red and Blue" Greatest Hits albums as it was a moot point.
But now, all these years later, I look forward to giving this "expanded" album box set a good listen.
Goo goo gajoob!
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