I have had it up to here waiting for the Beatles catalogue to be remastered

OMG!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UocEGvQ10OE

get back: actually a very fun, happy experience!

the beatles never broke up

(this footage does look great though)

v excited :D

yeah me too

So, wait...did they ship actual Beatle guitars, amps, and drums to New Zealand just for a background shot on a teaser trailer?

Was wondering about that as well

Perhaps they were used to help digitally restore the images of them in the footage?

Ah, that makes some kind of sense, good point!

More likely some sort of newly filmed section, an intro perhaps, cgi?

i feel the same about kurtis blow so what the deal?!

They're all reissue / recreations of the Beatle instruments (e.g. I saw "B Bass / H Series" on one trussrod cover, and the natural Casino is clearly a Korean poly-finished one like mine) and there's zero chance that the historical instruments would be piled on the couch like that. My guess is that it's PJ's Beatle collection.

https://i.postimg.cc/BZdjkrJz/8-D678835-E097-4054-A867-C9-D4928089-C2.jpg

Mia Farrow?

Yeah, that makes sense. I can't imagine they'd send original Beatles gear halfway around the world, with the number of people required to lug it around and ensure its security, in the middle of a pandemic.

xp

Also that stuff looked surprisingly shiny for it to have been played much before.

Jeez the Lewisohn 'Tune In' book is pretty hard going at times. I'm still only about halfway through the 2-part extended version and they've literally *just* become The Beatles (or 'Beatals') on page 600. Supposedly Ringo finally joins in the 2nd half on page 1,300.

No spoilers, but it *ends* with the release of the first album. Personally, I found every page riveting and revelatory.

This week or last week, by the way, was the week in 1964 when the Beatles had 14 songs on the Billboard charts.

Also, xpost, you *are* reading the extended version, which I believe is literally twice as long, so another extra 800 or 1,000 pages.

This week or last week, by the way, was the week in 1964 when the Beatles had 14 songs on the Billboard charts.

― Josh in Chicago

Pfft. Then Drake came along. TAKE THAT BEEEETLES.

I just assume the charts are 50% Drake at any given time anyway. I mean, as far as I know they are.

I listened to the audiobook. 42 of the best hours I’ve spent.

I remember when the extended 'Tune In' came out, a tweet was shared (I think maybe on here) along the lines of 'I'm not saying that the new Beatles book is exhaustive, but I'm on page 346, and Ringo's Great Grandfather has just purchased a hat'

Dumb question, is the "extended version" only available as the expensive hardcover collector's version?

I think so, yeah.

Thanks, I assumed so since it was all I could find online, but wanted to make sure there wasn't a cheaper version I wasn't finding.

I have it as a kindle file

This just popped up on the YouTubes a few hours ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUHdhxwyjjU

i assume that's on the POB reissue box that is coming out (or came out? lost track).

Yes, I assume so. A few of these have dropped over the past few weeks (I think the POB reissue comes out 4/26?). The footage found for this video of "Look at Me" is p cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z3Qu-ZZgPw

That Give Peace.. video has a *5K* setting! Can anyone's PC actually cope with that? Mine struggles going above the 1080.

xxxxxp oh yeah Tune In is a revelation no argument there, i'm very glad it exists.

Tune In is brilliant. That said, I feel no obligation to read it front to back. I think I just randomly started at some point in the middle, read to the end, then read the bit at the start I skipped over which worked perfectly well, knowing the general Beatles arc well. Felt just fine to go back and examine pre-war Liverpool, Ringo's grandfather's hats, etc after getting through their childhoods.

It def bears reading start to finish imo

The thing that is impressive is it immerses you in their individual upbringings so well that I caught myself wondering IF they would meet, not when lol

its exhaustively long but giving their bios room to breathe is such a gift in terms of learning new info when they’ve seemingly already been done to death

I don't know why I bother asking any more but did Lewisohn ever give a clue as to when volume 2 is coming out? 2054?

2541, iirc

;_;

XP Definitely not this year but possibly next year was the last i heard.

When he’s 64

tbf, he’s focusing his time and energy on interviewing as many sources as possible — for this and future volumes — as a number of potential first-hand sources passed away just prior to, and during, the writing of Tune In (Neil Aspinall and Geoff Emerick, to name two).

xpost - I get the joke, but considering he’ll turn 63 in a couple months, I’d be happy with that deadline

I know! I couldn’t resist after piscesx said next year.

I think the last interview I heard he said “definitely not 2021 or 2022, possibly 2023 but don’t hold your breath”

jfc

But it might have been “def not 2020 or 2021, maybe 22 etc”

Time keeps on slippin slippin slippin etc

Comprehensive answer;

https://www.marklewisohn.net/volume-2/

;_;

volume 2 is probably just 63-64

He's going to skip straight to "Spies Like Us".

Working my way through the reviews on Amazon:

https://i.imgur.com/T9viUSt.png

The Beatles did smoke a lot, it's for authenticity.