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I do recall that what purports to be the AHDN and Help! original film mixes were uploaded to "the 'zone" and I would have the unopened .zip files somewhere on one of my HDDs... There's also the 1982 film restoration of AHDN to consider as well: someone may have captured the audio (while vi...

If Stuart Sutcliffe had stayed with The Beatles and did the recordings at Polydor, Decca and EMI how would he have sounded? Would George Martin have told Brian Epstein "That rhythm section has to be replaced before we start making records with the group"? What did John, Paul, George and Pe...

The faux surround sound mix on the early DVD of AHDN folds down to an excellent mono version, free of foley effects and dialogue: the 2014 DVD/blu-ray has some excellent remixes (apart from the abominable mishap on "If I Fell") but foley effects and dialogue are baked into each channel. I ...

Who is "Fab" anyway? Is he going to join this board, I wonder?!!

For "Got To Get You Into My Life" (Take 5 with bass) I took the very narrow stereo Anthology 2 version and widened the stereo image and added the bass guitar from the regular version, matching each bass note to a drum beat (very time-consuming work that was!!). The bass was panned to one s...

The version of "Catswalk" I'd prepared and shared in "the 'zone" last year (co-opted by "Fab" for this set) was extended via some seamless editing I'd done. (Just thought I'd point that out for the sake of clarity!).

Abbey Road mainly (but also Savile Row and Trident)...