New (?) Beatles..... Nov. 18th (1 Viewer)

[Michael St. Clair]

From http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/jackson.htm:

Capitol (owned by EMI)l has not released any SACD discs in the US, only DVD Audio.

EMI has also recentlys started a partnership with DTS to release DVD-A, including 'key artists'.

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

Annouced today, it's called "Let It Be... Naked" and sounds essentially like the Get Back project. Release date: November 17.

Story here: Yahoo News

It also comes with a bonus disc of 20 minutes worth of rehearsals and stuff.

 

[Lee Scoggins]

Correction: Capitol is releasiong SACD discs according to an ad I saw in an audiophile magazine.

Dark Side of The Moon ring a bell? Did you know it (the new SACD) hit #1 on the Billboard charts as well? Full print ads in many magazines talking up Super Audios benefits...it could very well be that we see a Beatles SACD disc.

Here's another take on the Beatles release:

http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/ar...ent_id=1981662

 

[andrew markworthy]

More details of the album are trickling out. I'll buy it, of course, but for anyone who has heard the assorted Beatles bootlegs from this period, I doubt it'll hold all that many surprises (except possibly better sound quality, though given the experience of the various Anthology discs, I wouldn't bet on it :frowning: ).

 

[Gary_E]

I received this e-mail today from Beatles.com:

AT LAST AS NATURE INTENDED

THE BEATLES’ LET IT BE…NAKED



At last revealed - The Beatles album that has taken more than 30 years to finish, Let It Be…Naked, just the bare sound of the band inside The Beatles.


Let It Be…Naked is the no frills, back-to-basics album that The Beatles first set out to make back in 1969 - but which was never released as they intended, the band back to the bone.


Now, through the smart digital technology of Abbey Road studios, the never-heard band’s take of the original sessions will be finally released worldwide by EMI Records in November.



Naked is Let It Be brought right up to now for the ‘1 Generation’,

de-mixed and re-mixed, un-dubbed of orchestration, choirs and effects and stripped-back to the raw to reveal The Beatles simply as what they were very best at being – just a great band.



“If we’d have had today’s technology back then, it would sound like this because this is the noise we made in the studio”, said Paul McCartney “It’s all exactly as it was in the room. You’re right there now”.



“When I first heard it, it was really uplifting. It took you back again to the times when we were this band, the Beatle band”, said Ringo Starr.



When The Beatles first set out to make the album in 1969, they intended to record an album that would be a return to live performance of just the bare necessities of the band, no studio effects or overdubbing of voices or instruments would be allowed. However, caught in the turmoil of the break-up of the band, the album was

re-produced by Phil Spector and never released as The Beatles had originally meant it to sound. Until now.




Let It Be…Naked’s track listing differs from the 1970 release; background dialogue, ‘Dig It’ and ‘Maggie Mae’ have been taken off the album and ‘Don’t Let Me Down’ has been added to the running order, which now is as follows: Get Back, Dig A Pony, For You Blue, The Long And Winding Road, Two Of Us, I’ve Got A Feeling, One After 909, Don’t Let Me Down, I Me Mine, Across The Universe, Let It Be.



Let It Be…Naked will be issued together with a bonus fly-on-the-wall disc that features extracts from tapes of The Beatles at the time of first making the Let It Be album and movie in the Sixties.



The 20-minute bonus disc is a unique insight into The Beatles at work in rehearsal and in the studios in January 1969.



Let It Be…Naked will also come with a booklet that features historic photography of the recording sessions and extracts of band dialogue from the original booklet that first accompanied early copies of the 1970 album.



Released worldwide from November 17th, Let It Be…Naked is the sound of The Beatles as nature intended; raw and rocking.



“The music always surpassed any bullshit we were going through; once the count-in happened we turned back into those brothers and musicians.”

RINGO STARR



“It’s just us playing, in our best voices, it’s very honest”.

GEORGE HARRISON




“For all our success The Beatles were always a great little band. When we sat down to play, we played good”.

PAUL McCARTNEY



“In spite of all things, The Beatles could really play music together”

JOHN LENNON



Check back soon for the full Let It Be...Naked website

www.thebeatles.com

Regards,
-Gary

 

[LarryDavenport]

So 30 minutes on disc one and 20 minutes on disc two.

I for one am pissed the long version of Dig It didn't make the cut.

 

[Jason Guardiano]

Yeah why no "Dig It" ?

argh :frowning:

here's the cover for "LET IT BE...naked"

http://www.thebeatles.com.br/review-...t-be-naked.htm

aye

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Remember that link we posted the other day to the Brazilian site that was said to have the cover of the CD on it? The one with the reversed images that we said didn't seem likely to be it? Well, a second source -- with a connection said to be inside EMI -- has sent us the same picture, saying it's the cover. However, a third source, a more official contact we asked directly, couldn't confirm whether it was the cover or not because they hadn't seen it yet. So is it or isn't it?

From Carolyn Hurwitz:

All I have to say is that if that photo the Brazilian site showed IS the cover, then it's emblematic of the lack of imagination behind the entire work from the very start. First the crummy title, now this. My suggestion (which will be ignored by most fans, I'm certain) is to boycott the album and let Apple/EMI know that we'd like a higher standard for future releases. Thanks for listening!

 

[Jason Guardiano]

The "final" cover art (a bit better ) has been posted on Amazon where you can pre-order it

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