The Beatles' official website has been overhauled for 9/9/09. Here's the note visitors see on the new home page:
Welcome to our new website! We have packed the site with music, photographs, video and memorabilia. Create your own playlist and weave your way through a Beatles audio visual experience... (Please note we may be making tweaks for the first 24 hours!)
It now has promos for both "The Beatles: Rock Band" (see above) and the remastered CDs, plus history, articles, news and memorabilia. Plus it allows you to create a widget (available soon) where you can comment, interact, pick a playlist and earn Sgt. Pepper stripes.
The old areas for the "Anthology," "Let It Be ... Naked," "Yellow Submarine Songtrack" and others are still available.
As the note indicates, the site is apparently still a work in progress.
Comments
Looks nice, but some of the videos aren't working.
Sadly that website has always been sorely lacking in that it is missing a key feature- the music! Sometimes I wonder where their head is at....
Whoever put this commercial together, did a good job with the faces.
That commerical is freakin' brilliant. I did a double, then triple take when I saw it. Fantastic.
Kind of like the old layout better.
I miss the web chat and game "Help!" from previous version of the web site
Hi Steve,
Thanks for such a great articles.
I cannot believe this, but upon hearing the remasters last night and doing an A/B test at the same volume level, the ONE songs from 2000 sound not only louder but clearer..
HOW can this be?
Thanks,
Mike Moyer
Santa Barbara's #1 Beatles Fan
Mike Moyer says:
Hi Steve,
Thanks for such a great articles.
I cannot believe this, but upon hearing the remasters last night and doing an A/B test at the same volume level, the ONE songs from 2000 sound not only louder but clearer..
HOW can this be?
Marketing ploy? Get people all psyched up about buying the same music that they bought before?
Hmmm... A corporation would never do that. They have the people's best interest at heart.
In an interwiew for CNN, Giles Martin says:
"The biggest problem for us is that a lot of the Beatles stuff isn't recorded separately (...) "Twist and Shout," "I Saw Her Standing There," for instance, "Boys" is on two tracks -- all of the drums, bass and guitars together. And so we had someone here at Abbey Road, a guy named Simon Gibson and an engineer called Paul Hicks who filtered everything and so separated, made what would have been multitracks out of one track, if that makes sense ... so created new separate mixes."
"CNN: Has your father played "Rock Band?
Martin: Funnily enough, he has been in and I showed him the work we were doing and he was astounded by the fact that we could demix stuff. I remember he came in and and we were running through the music of "I Feel Fine" (...) and I showed him that we could remove the bass track from what he had recorded as everything together."
So, now it's possible to separate different instruments recorded in just one track!!! Big News!!
Why is good day sunshine not included in this release
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