Fab Four surprises - WORLD

Would that Giles Martin, the 49-year-old son of the late Beatles producer Sir George Martin, could oversee the re-production from the ground up of every iconic rock ’n’ roll album.

His painstaking restoration of the Beatles’ Hollywood Bowl recordings and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band rendered all previous incarnations obsolete. And now he and his team of engineers have worked similar wonders with The Beatles, the Fab Four’s 30-song double album commonly referred to as The White Album.

Home to numerous staples of the Beatlemaniac diet (“Back in the U.S.S.R.,” “Dear Prudence,” “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “Rocky Raccoon,” “Blackbird,” “Birthday,” “Helter Skelter”), The White Album has just turned 50. And to commemorate the occasion, Capitol has rereleased it in a bewildering array of formats. The good news: All of them include Martin’s refurbished version.

Source: world.wng.org

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