For us who plow a little deeper into recordings, recognizing producers and engineers, George Martin is one of the greatest and a true hero. He was the man behind the Beatle sound and a ground for the groups musical development. No music lover gets passed Beatles and they're still a lot on my turntable, but I've always prefered the mono issues. Making good stereo from four-channel recordings was hard and mostly it didn't favor the music. This is one of the original stereos I've always thought was up there with the mono, but it seems Martin himself didn´t fancy it at all. He has called it rushed and unclear ("woolly") and even did a re-make in the eighties to get it more to his liking - using a different quality reverb on the whole thing and other tape echo on "Dizzy Miss Lizzy". I can't argue with the master producer, but the original is fine with me. It doesn't have the rigorous left-right mixing that often handicapped early stereos, but comes through as rather natural most of the time. Also all vocals, both lead and background, are a lot clearer than on the mono. Further the strings on "Yesterday" are more prominent and some of the guitars sharper on other tracks. Even if I still prefer the mono as a whole I must admit this is more enjoyable at parts. For most early Beatles recordings mono is enough, but here I can't be without any of them. And now to something different. There are discussions on the net about Beatles sixties releases since font type on labels or cover manufacturer sometimes differed and the question is wich was first - often argued by dealers claiming the particular copy they're selling is the one. I'm the proud owner a -1/-1 matrix and 1G 1G mother/stamper copy of this album and it doesn't get earlier than that - one of the first few hundred. So be confident the label shown here and the Garrods & Lofthouse wrapping are the very first for the stereo issue. (BÄ*) (PÖX*)(ZÖNT*) (LGÅ*)
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