In this interview with Giles Martin, you’ll hear some of the early demos, outtakes and remixes. Today we’ve got a conversation with the man who produced this 100-plus song celebration, Giles Martin, whose father, George Martin, produced “The White Album” back in ’68 (along with most everything else The Beatles ever made). The album art was a stark, white, glossy cover with raised, slanted lettering that simply said, “The Beatles.” That self-titled album, with its 30 songs that span genres from American country music to avant-garde tape collage, has come to be known as “The White Album.” And in celebration of its birth 50 years ago, The Beatles label Apple Records has scoured the archives for a new deluxe edition of the album that, for the first time, includes previously unreleased, early demo recordings, studio outtakes and stunning remixes in both stereo and 5.1 surround. CREDIT: Apple Corps Ltd.įifty years ago, just before the holidays in 1968, The Beatles put out not just a new album, but a double album, something relatively unheard of at the time. Pancras Old Church in London on July 28, 1968. This, of course, only added to its notoriety, and lead to countless similar takes on The Black Album, mashing up Jay’s voice with anything remotely colour-related (Weezer’s Blue, Metallica’s own Black Album, and so on).Įight years on, The Grey Album has been remastered by engineer John Stewart, and in the spirit of the original project, is free to download here.PHOTO: The Beatles at St. On The Grey Album, Danger Mouse – who, of course, has gone on to become one of pop music’s better-known producers – blended acapellas from Jay-Z’s then-swansong The Black Album with samples and tracks from The Beatles’ White Album.ĭespite Jay-Z – who’d released a full acapella version of The Black Album to encourage remixes – and Paul McCartney both giving their public approval to the project, EMI didn’t react so kindly and attempted to halt its distribution. Danger Mouse’s mash-up classic The Grey Album has been remastered.īelieve it or not, back in the pre-James Drake age of 2004, the idea of a mash-up album wasn’t completely played out.
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