NYC Gets a Sneak Peek of the New Beatles’ ‘White Album’ Reissue
Producer Giles Martin unveiled previously unreleased tracks as part of a new package to mark the album’s 50th anniversary
In hindsight, it is remarkable that even as personal and musical differences were pulling the members of the Beatles apart by 1968, they were still unified in crafting and recording unforgettable songs with a combination of drive, vision and perfection. Such was the case with the now-legendary self-titled double album (a.k.a. the White Album) released in that year. For all its stylistic diversity and at times unwieldiness — from folk and proto-metal, to avant-garde and of course rock and pop — the music from that mammoth 90-minute collection of 30 songs betray any notion that the group’s working relationship was fractured in the studio (at least not until the Let It Be sessions).
That’s the sense one gets from producer Giles Martin, who played some of the cuts off of the upcoming new reissue of The Beatles to a select group of press people and invitees earlier this week at the famed Power Station recording studio in New York City. Marking The…
