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For You Blue is a song by the Beatles, written by George Harrison and released on their 1970 album Let It Be. Glyn Johns and Phil Spector were two of the producers who worked on the album, but they had different visions for the sound and style of the songs. Johns preferred a more raw and live approach, while Spector added orchestral overdubs and effects. Glyn Johns mixes were all rejected, and Spector's version was released as a single and on the album. But was the Glyn Johns production of For You Blue really worse than Spector's? To facilitate the comparison, we play the Glyn Johns version in the left channel, and Spector's mix in the right channel. It is evident that Johns liked Harrison's guitar, which is almost absent in Spector's mix. Much of the instrumental mixes are similar, but Spector includes a new version of the vocals. These were recorded after Johns left, so these new vocals were not available to him. But overall, were they right to reject Johns mix?

One of the rare original songs on McCartney's “Give My Regards To Broad Street” soundtrack was “No Values”. However, it was s not composed for the film. The song had been in the works since late 1980, when Wings did some demos that can be found on bootlegs. McCartney recorded another version of the song at AIR Studios on Montserrat in February 1981, during the Tug Of War sessions. The final version for the film was done in December 1982 at AIR in London, with the same musicians as on ‘Not Such A Bad Boy’.McCartney has said that "No Values" came to him in a dream, much like 'Yesterday' did. But here, he dreamt that the Rolling Stones were playing the song: "They were all there, Bill, Charlie, Keith and all the lads; and Mick was up there singing, “No values, seems to me that you’ve still got no values…” I couldn’t quite hear all the lyrics but I heard all the chorus and I woke up and thought I really like that song that they do. Then I thought, Hey, wait a minute – there is no song called “No Values”. They don’t do that song. My brain had just created it, or however it happens. I haven’t told Mick Jagger – he’d probably claim the copyright!"The 1980 outtakes still have a bit of a Rolling Stone feel, but by 1982 that had gone and it had become a typical 'Wings' track. A good occasion to set Artificial Intelligence to work, and produce a version of "No Values" with the Rolling Stones swagger; is this the way McCartney heard it in his dream?

The production of the last Beatles single, Now and Then, is lush, to say the least. A heavily compressed piano (McCartney) accompanies Lennon's vocals. The string octet kicks in, we hear backing vocals echoing all the way back to Abbey Road, and then somebody messes up a solo on a slide guitar. Of all these add-ons (that Lennon would have hated) the string octet stands out, because it is not that bad. It is choreographed very much in style of Eleanor Rigby, with short bursts of te violins and cellos. Well worth a listen in isolation.

We all know that Now and Then was composed by John Lennon. However, Paul McCartney took and changed it, omitted the middle eight, added a solo, played piano over Lennon's recording, and much more. And he sang almost the whole song in unison with Lennon's voice. You might say it became a McCartney song.......To take the transformation to completion, we deleted Lennon's voice from the mix, so we can fully appreciate McCartney's singing.

365 yesterdays have come and gone in 2023. It was an eventful year, with wars raging in many parts of the world. But it also brought great personal joy.As a farewell to 2023, here is Paul McCartney singing Yesterday.  Just Paul, no guitar, no strings. Remember the good things in life.

The ending of the song I Am The Walrus is one of the most mysterious and intriguing parts of the Beatles’ catalogue. It features a mix of nonsense lyrics, random sound effects, and a snippet of a BBC radio broadcast of Shakespeare’s King Lear.Some people claim that the version of the song on the new Red and Blue album, a compilation of remastered Beatles hits released in 2023, differs from the original version that appeared on the Magical Mystery Tour EP and album in 1967. They say that the vocals are clearer and more isolated, and that some of the background noises are different or removed.To test this claim, we have isolated the vocals from the ending of the song. Here is what we found:The vocals are indeed more audible and less distorted than the original version. This is probably due to the improved sound quality and remastering process of the new album.The lyrics are still mostly nonsensical, but some of them can be deciphered more easily. For example, a French voice talks about the 'nouvelle republique' and the Vietnam war. The radio broadcast of King Lear is also the same, but it is slightly more synchronized with the vocals. The broadcast was recorded by John Lennon from a transistor radio that he randomly tuned in while recording the song. The broadcast features the lines “O, untimely death!” and “I know thee well: a serviceable villain”, spoken by the characters of Edgar and Gloucester, respectively.In conclusion, the version of I Am The Walrus on the new Red and Blue album does have some differences from the original version. The mystery remains whether the words that we can now hear are added new, or that they existed in the original but were mixed so low that we can't distinguish them.