As we continue celebrating George Martin's centenary, here's his isolated score for Martha My Dear. If memory serves, this is also @mjmckean.bsky.social favorite song on the White Album. youtu.be/lmBpNI6tGNI

I cannot wait!

Happy 100th Big George! I’ll be celebrating here for the next week but let’s start with one his greatest scores, Strawberry Fields Forever, which we re-recorded by following the Beatles’ original rhythm track so it’s as faithful as possible. youtu.be/UrO-s7gh0-c?...

One week in the vaults. That’s all I’m asking. Just.one.week.

Whatever you do, don't show this to Chuck Berry's publisher

The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn

The best. What a voice.

This looks so good!

Got an email last night that reminded me how hard people cling to 50+ years of myth and unreliable memory even in the face of solid contradictory evidence. This is about my specialized area of interest but can also apply to so much of what we see in the world any given day

What better way to celebrate this festive time of year than a remixed/restored Beatles outtake. youtu.be/ArBY7_CX2uQ?...

This is ridiculous

Granted, I prefer to choose my guests rather than take pitches (I'm not a talk show), but I'll usually sent an email politely declining. Unless you spam me five times within two hours, and then I'm blocking you. Anyway, happy Friday.

A perfect album. Just before I interviewed Chris Thomas (who produced it) for the first time, he was telling me random stories, including recalling that it was him and Cale playing the violas on Hanky Panky Nohow. (You can hear a mix of just violas & Cale’s vocal on the Rhino release from 2006)

At certain points here, it sounds like everyone else is just accompanying Ringo. youtu.be/iy-TGRiQ4QQ

Turn it up to 11 today. 💔

Any given Beatles song

I wasn't prepared for what this would do to me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P7i...

“In their eyes there’s something lacking What they need’s a damn good whacking” Beatle quotes for all occasions

Reshare because when I got everything synched up & pressed play it was 🤯 When working on the ATMP book and talking to arranger John Barham, I began to realize how rich (and barely heard) the orchestral parts were. This is a case in point.

That’s almost as many copies as I have

I'm a bit late but if you'd like to continue celebrating Rubber Soul's 60th birthday, here's a stereo vocals only mix of the entire album (plus Day Tripper and We Can Work It Out) youtu.be/2Bldiw3isys?...

Because I’m a rebel I’m taking my time and watching Anthology 2025 out of order. Last night I watched 9 and my main criticism is the same for the other episodes I’ve seen: I want MORE

Thinking of George today, I made a mix of Beware of Darkness highlighting with just strings and vocals (and a bit of Hammond organ) youtu.be/BI_k6x2lY64

When we did the All Things Must Pass book I told Ken Womack I wanted to “do a Lewisohn.” Mal’s diaries allowed us to achieve that for the revised paperback. Here’s a clip from the Sessionography appendix

Just got called a conspiracy theorist for saying generative AI is harmful. How’s your day going?

My day job is photographer and I’m always aware of image quality so, editing aside, the shifts from beautiful film footage to variable upscaled (and over smoothed) footage in The Beatles Anthology 2025 has been distracting, to say the least. Sharpness isn’t always the best goal

They’ve really gone too far now

Irma Thomas Alex Chilton Jonathan Richman (solo!) John Cale Paul McCartney

Almost missed the All Things Must Pass anniversary (busy day) but periodic reminder that I have a book and two podcast episodes to help you celebrate this most brilliant of masterpieces + the milieu that birthed it podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

The foundation of Magical Mystery Tour, take 3, is surprisingly simple, with Paul on piano, Ringo on drums, John on acoustic guitar, and George with a rockin' electric guitar part.

Really interesting to see what gets a copyright notice and what doesn’t on YouTube, and what’s blocked completely — Good Day Sunshine apparently!

Youtube seems to be a better way to share these Beatles remixes, so here's a repost of my sharpened up remix of Not Guilty, with one of Linda's photos of George. youtu.be/9LVJvsZvYoQ

Beatles bootleg collectors are very familiar with Something take 37, an unused tape reduction featuring parts recorded over later & missing some other significant pieces. Here I've completely remixed it for stereo using tech similar to Peter Jackson's MAL system. Original mono mix in comments.

This is definitely a sign of madness: I'm updating the spreadsheet of all available Beatles studio outtakes I started back in 2014, adding the last few box sets & now Anthology 4. Items in red were released officially, though not all are easy to find! #OCD #Beatles

Let me know what you think!

I'll share a few remixes I've done this week. First up, Not Guilty, which has never had a good mix, so I took it apart and reassembled it with more of an edge. Notes of what I did in the comments drive.google.com/file/d/1kbTH...

Amen

I’d very gladly take this!

Instead of the four Beatles biopics, yes please. Or maybe a Muppet version of the Beatles story!

A neverending series of videos and podcasts (including this one) showing how music works, from recording to deconstructions of scores to performance to you name it

My pick has always been Michael Fassbender, but they don’t seem to be worried much about likeness

Dig that rockin’ bass clarinet kids youtu.be/oF2GvhYaFic?...

I want to work on the next episode but I’ve been forced to take a break by my manager

I really missed the boat not doing a Producing the Rutles podcast while Mr Innes was still with us

Seems like someone needs to make their own podcast about Beatles mix variations

I started making my podcast for myself and the ten people I figured would want to hear it, in the way I thought that audience would like it. The fact that *twelve* people like it means I’m going to carry on. Who cares about algorithms!

As my slideshow reels of Beatles isolated vocals have gone viral over on Instagram, the interactions have been overwhelmingly positive, which is a small miracle considering what often happens when things go into the hundreds of thousands. Let’s call it Beatles magic.

So much of what I’ve done has been because various archives let in a curious independent weirdo like me. What little research I did at the BBC Archives (some of it in this latest episode) was incredibly valuable/fascinating. To think that I would now be shut out is absurd.