A box-set edition of Revolver is out on October 28, the remixed album along with 23 outtakes, three home demos, a book and notes by Paul McCartney. Giles Martin produced it and talks here about what he uncovered along the way – about the band and how they wrote and worked together, and about a new technical breakthrough developed on Peter Jackson’s Get Back movie project that transformed the whole process. The outtakes, he says, are like sketches for a finished painting (Yellow Submarine, you’ll discover, started as a sombre acoustic waltz-time folk song by John Lennon about his past).
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YES I REALISED WHEN I BOUGHT REVOLVER AND HEARD TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS AND SOME OTHER TRACKS WHERE THE MUSIC WAS PLAYED IN REVERSE THAT I WAS LISTENING TO THE FIRST PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC BRILLIANT GREATEST BAND EVER I NOW PUT HEADPHONES ON LOAD DRINK AND IM ABSOLUTELY IN HEAVEN NEED I SAY MORE
The AI a stuff like SPLEETER is indeed amazing alchemy. Being able to separate tracks from a mix is an amazing feat. Enabled by Tensorflow.
Why do you want 4 for? you’ve only got 2 ears 😂
I'm so incredibly excited about this release. Revolver has always been my favourite Beatles album. Can't wait to hear it! x
“I hate the idea of music getting old, I think that we just get old around music” — Giles Martin
As a 15 year-old fan in Ohio in 1966, I had no idea how much Capitol Records had distorted "Revolver" by omitting 3 songs from John Lennon — "I'm Only Sleeping," "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "Doctor Robert" — and putting them on "Yesterday and Today." Our "Revolver" had 6 songs from McCartney, 3 from Harrison and just 2 ("She Said She Said" and "Tomorrow Never Knows") from Lennon.
Great interview, thank you!
I always try to imagine the listening public at that time. If I'm correct, I believe the BBC played each song in order a day at a time leading up to its release and can't fathom the reaction to Tomorrow Never Knows when it blasted over the radio ..A real "WTF was that!!" moment… An utterly amazing album and my personal favourite…
Revolver is a wonderful mix of work – Tomorrow Never Knows and And Your Bird Can Sing – the first a mix of studio experiments in pursuit of a sound and the genius of knowing it when you found it and the second an amazing piece of writing with two guitars playing in harmony and incredible vocal harmonies – a culmination of much of skills they'd picked up over the previous years. 3 of my favorite Beatles songs – all George's. Need I go on?
Just hearing about this. My favorite album of all time, can’t wait.
I can't rank them… it's one of the masterpieces
anything like this before rubber soul would be kinda iffy
Who wrote the songs? The Beatles were more than the 4 lads
What’s wrong with jaws 2?😅
when i first heard this album, it didn't sound mono, and i did not notice the mistakes, the beatle's music, from the beginning sounded as they did when you were high, even without the drugs
word in ya ear if it aint broke dont fix it !!
Revolver was the one I wanted the most and needs it the most.
There's always more to learn and savour about the Beatles: very interesting interview. The only negative Mark tbh is that sometimes in your haste to share your own knowledge, perspective and enthusiasm you interrupt the person you're interviewing just as they start to speak – I noted that a few times in the first quarter but hey… baby and the bathwater and all that – you secured an interview with a very interesting and likeable guest.
interviewer interrupts constantly, so frustrating
Does anyone else want to tidy up that bookshelf?
Great talk. Revolver is like the perfect album for me. Raw and yet modern as well.
Arent the remixed records in some respects going down a different sonic trail, redefining specific sounds that the Beatles and associates intentionally created to sound a certain particular way.
Maybe the Beatles dont want to be clarified!!
I am weirdly nervous about the possible remix of Rubber Soul. I feel that it's sonically much more 'mono/straight' than Revolver and all the later albums. I hope that the remix will make it a bit more beefy/fat rather than clearer/more defined.
Simple translation…Giles couldn't mix this in 5.1 surround sound.