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You've never heard The Beatles' 'Revolver' sound like this

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4.33.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The technology used to remix the 56-year-old album is hard to fathom. But, with the help of producer Giles Martin, Revolver now sounds like a brand new album from a young band still putting out records.

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0:00.0

For amp-yard music, you're connected to all songs considered by Bob Boylin,

0:03.7

with a conversation with Giles Martin about the Beatles album revolver,

0:08.4

complete with new mixes and discs full of outtakes.

0:12.9

It's hard to imagine or even comprehend the technology used to remix the Beatles album revolver.

0:19.1

When it was originally recorded in 1966, often the drums, guitars, and bass were all on the same

0:25.5

track. Now with truly groundbreaking almost magical technology, they were able to separate

0:32.3

the instruments and create new mixes that are just astounding. It's full of details in the instruments

0:38.4

that have been buried all these years. Here's a bit of And Your Bird Can Sing.

1:08.4

You can't see me, you can't see me, you can't see me, you can't see me.

1:19.3

When your price possessions start to weigh you down, look at my direction, I'll be around, I'll be around.

1:33.8

Joining me from NPR's New York Bureau is Giles Martin, who's been overseeing the remixes of

1:42.0

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a white album, let it be, Abbey Road, and now revolver.

1:49.6

Giles is the son of the Beatles producer George Martin, and over the past five years with each

1:55.2

new reissue, we've had some of my very favorite and enlightening conversations about the

2:00.1

how's and why's of taking these classic records and updating them. When it came out in the

2:05.6

summer of 1966, it was a record that sounded like no other record that came before it.

2:12.5

So Giles, it's 1966 for the past four years. The Beatles have been in constant motion. What is it?

2:19.9

Six albums? Six albums, I think, yeah. Right. Two films, world tours. And then along comes this

2:26.2

something I didn't, wasn't aware of a third movie proposal and they turned it down and all of a sudden

2:31.4

the Beatles have, have time. They actually have, I think they have the first holiday they've ever had.

2:39.5

And I think it's a time for reflections, you say, and I think that they're already changing the Beatles

2:44.8

morphed and they taken off the suits that single foreheaded monster the Beatles had become,

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