We’ve been having The Beatles’ albums on CD. This time, EMI is bringing you a brilliant audio collection comprising the magical journey of the Fab Four with The Beatles Stereo Boxset distributed by PolyEast Records. This perfect gift is now exclusively available at all Odyssey outlets.

For the first time, their entire recorded output has been re-mastered for the 21st century, complete with unique liner notes and special digital packaging to boot. Plus, the boxset does include a bonus DVD featuring all of these short sequences together so you can enjoy it on your very own DVD player. You can also avail The Beatles Stereo Boxset in a limited edition 16G USB Flash Drive housed in a green aluminum apple which contains full contents of the Beatles Stereo Boxset; 13 mini-documentaries in MPEG 4 video format; and custom-designed Flash Player menu system with full booklet artwork, album cover wallpapers and photo gallery.

What you have here are the original British Beatles albums just like what had been released before; only now, listeners can enjoy the first four albums – “Please Please Me,” “With The Beatles,” “Hard Day’s Night,” “Beatles For Sale” – available in true stereo for the very first time. Combined with the remaining nine albums recorded by the group between 1965 and 1970, this is a masterpiece set, and a special treasure trove of timeless, classic songs that changed the entire structure of popular music as we know it today.

Each title also comes with a special CD booklet containing many unreleased photographs that represent the time each album was originally released, plus well-written liner notes (including the original notes from the first four albums). The “Yellow Submarine” booklet contains both the original UK and US back cover notes together for the very first time. And what a thrill it is to finally be able to have the photo/comic-strip booklet from “Magical Mystery Tour” that was initially issued in the American LP in 1967, in an official CD release for the very first time. The “White Album” packaging includes the original poster, in a CD sized reproduction, that features the photo collage on one side, and the album’s song-lyrics on the other side. This marks the second time that this poster was made available in a “White Album” CD release, following the 30th anniversary reissue from 1998.

“Love Me Do” (both versions), “P. S. I Love You,” “Only A Northern Song,” “She Loves You,” “I’ll Get You” and “You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)” are all represented in their original monaural mixes, whereas the remaining songs are all in true stereo. Even “I Am The Walrus” still has its original mix of half-stereo/half-duo phonic, just like the first time around.

And, the bonus DVD boasts a well-produced mini documentary. Each segment features audio comments from The Beatles themselves along with George Martin. This DVD gives a fascinating insight into why these classic albums have stood the test of time so well, and continues to be so popular, even into the 21st century.

Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/237314/beatles-stereo-boxset-a-perfect-gift-all-time

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I got to tell you, it’s not that I don’t know the answers to the questions (well, yeah some I don’t) but it was freaking hard to click those ‘dragon balls’.. those balls with stars in it.

Anyway, here’s the leakage for those who haven’t played it yet… It’s hard to take note of it, so these are just the ones that I can remember from the top of my head… and not the exact questions too.

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Ringo Starr: They hurt. Hey, America…. don’t throw them jellybeans. Streamers are good, you know. They don’t hurt. Get me some streamers. Jellybeans are too hard. Do you have any, Larry?

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The best thing about this book, if you’re a real die hard fan of the fab four, is that obviously this book contains hundreds and hundreds of photos of the boys from fans everywhere. These photos was sold in auctions (and I must say, it probably costs fortunes!).

Another good thing about it is that it’s not a standard book that you read from cover to cover… You don’t even have to read it if you want to.. you can just stare at the pictures.. but in my case, I just flip it wherever (whenever time frame of the Beatles I want to be) and I read along..

And now, for tonight… here are some Beatles quotes from the interview The Beatles made in a press conference in Adelaide…. Page 122-123 of the book, “The Touring Days”

Reporter: Well fellas, tell me, what did you think of the Adelaide reception?
John Lennon: Oh, it was great@ The best ever.
Reporter: Was it like I’d mentioned to you on the plane it would be?
John Lennon: Yeah, it was better!
Reporter: Was it like you’d ever had before?
George Harrison: No, much better.
John Lennon: We’d never done one of those “drives” as well. It was marvelous.
Reporter: How would it compare with the ones in the United States when you arrived there?
Paul McCartney: This was bigger. There was more people there.
Reporter: Do you think it was very well conducted?
John Lennon: Yes. Everybody was well behaved.
Reporter: Did you get a fright at all outside the Town hall?
John Lennon: Not fright. Shock, you know, because there was so many.
George Harrison: I had a feeling we might’ve got shot, ‘cosw it’s the first time we’d been sitting inthe back of a car waving, you know.

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Q: How was your trip?
John Lennon: It was like a plane trip, you know.

Q: How often do you get haircuts?
John Lennon: Uh, about once every three weeks.

Q: Who is your tailer?
Paul McCartney: A fella called Millings.

Q: What did you have to eat today?
John Lennon: Corn flakes with jelly beans and chips

Q: Is your hair real?
Paul McCartney: Is yours?

Read more about the tour in Larry Kane’s Book:

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• The Beatles first arrived in the US February of 1964
• National Flight 11 was the plane The Beatles were on during their arrival in the US.
• The Beatles first landed in New York, first ever in the US, on February 7, 1964
• February 9, 1964 – 2 days after their arrival was their first US TV appearance on the Ed Sullivan show – NY
• February 11, 1964 – Performance at the Washington DC.
• February 12, 1964 – New York, Carnegie Hall
• February 16, 1964 Miami in their hotel that they are staying – Deauville Hotel
• Their February 23 performance on the Ed Sullivan show was actually a tapped performance.

Still reading folks! More to come!

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The book is called “Ticket to Ride: Inside the Beatles’ 1964 and 1965 tours that changed the World” by Larry Kane.

I never had the chance to read that book maybe because I was busy with work or super excited that I was in Vancouver.

Anyway, I picked up the book again and began reading it (again). I will be posting quotes of the Beatles here for every Beatle fan’s enjoyment. I certainly hope Larry Kane and his publisher is OK about it.

Here’s the John Lennon’s response to Larry Kane’s question – Is there any particular memory you would like to cherish from this trip?

John Lennon – “Well, just the whole thing. It’s been fantastic. We will probably never do another tour like it. It could never be the same as this one and it’s probably something we will remember the rest of our days. It’s just been marvelous.”

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Dude, need I say more? Happy Birthday to John Lennon! And I can’t wait for my very own Rockband Game.. please buy my Guitar Hero World Tour. :)

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‘Now And Then’ – which was composed by John Lennon in 1978 and later worked on by Sir Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr when they reunited to work on the Beatles Anthology project in 1995 – never got released, but McCartney has been adding to it and is now keen for fans to hear the track.

A source said: “The Beatles song ‘Now And Then’ is finished. All four Beatles are on the track. The original Beatles reunion version from 1995 was embellished with numerous sessions over the last two years by Paul McCartney.

“He wants the song to come out very badly.”

As well as featuring Lennon – who was shot dead in 1980 – and McCartney on vocals, Harrison, who passed away in 2001, also sings backing vocals and plays guitar.

If the track does get a release, it will be the first new Beatles song to come out since 1996’s ’Real Love’, which was composed by Lennon and later re-recorded by McCartney, Harrison and Starr with Lennon’s original vocal part.

McCartney, 67, had also wanted to release the unheard ‘Carnival of Light’, a 14-minute composition, but Harrison was against the plans.

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Ringo Starr turns 68 today, so he and Paul McCartney will presumably be getting together to drop acid and mime about the old times. And what old times they were, when four dirty little scamps in leather bondage gear suddenly took the music world by the throat and declared to God-fearing Americans that they were even more marvelous than Agamemnon and Moses put together. Or something like that. We don’t know, we’re making it up. We can’t remember the 60s, because we weren’t there. And we don’t mean that we were out of our minds, man. We mean that we weren’t born yet. Even so, we thought we’d get Ringo a gift, and it boiled down to a toss up between another ring, or a clip of an old cartoon. In the end we got him both. Happy Birthday Ringo!

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