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flight songwriter with arguably the best
composition on the album. It’s a trick
Harrison would pull again on the
Abbey Road album and extend with his
triple solo album All Things Must Pass.
Lennon’s “Everybody’s Got Something
to Hide Except for Me and My
Monkey” plays as an acoustic Bob
Dylan-style spoken ramble.
The Esher Demos also include a
clutch of non-album tracks like
Harrison’s “Sour Milk Sea” and
McCartney’s embryonic “Junk.” Fans
can debate whether these would have
been better inclusions than sound col-
lage
“Revolution
9.”
Lennon’s
Rishikesh tale “Child of Nature” was a
companion to McCartney’s “Mother
Nature’s Son” that eventually became
“Jealous Guy” on the landmark
Imagine album. “Mean Mr. Mustard”
and “Polythene Pam” would find their
places as truncated elements of Abbey
Road’s side two medley. Harrison’s
bluesy “Not Guilty” was re-recorded
on his eponymous 1979 solo album.
The Beatles’ version here includes a
vocal line and guitar solo that were
omitted from 1996’s Anthology 3
release. The LP set includes the album
lyrics backed onto a six-panel fold-out
poster, alongside four 8”x11” color
headshots of the band.
The Super Deluxe version consists
of six CDs and a Blu-ray disc packaged
into a hardbound coffee-table book.
The album has been split into two CDs
like the original LP release. A third disc
includes the 27 Escher Demos. Three
additional CDs include session out-
takes, rehearsals, alternate versions,
and jams. The Blu-ray features ultra-
high definition sound, two surround
mixes, and a mono mix. The book fea-
tures essays, photos, reproductions of
hand-written lyrics, and track-by-track
session notes to pore over. Although
The Beatles is unfocused, it has offered
fab fanatics fuel for fifty years of friend-
ly debate. These sets should ignite con-
versations for fifty years more. What
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