the beatles - all you need is love and some remasters

Now I actually love the sound you get when you put on a old 45 or 33rpm; the hisses and crackles all add to the atmosphere.
But I absolutely love what EMI and Apple have done to the current Beatles albums on CD.
I went to a sneak preview "hearing" earlier at the Adelphi hotel where the peeps from EMI played a series of snippets of current CD tracks and then the newly-cleaned up versions.
And they show very clearly that until now we've been listening to these records with cheese stuffed in our ears. Or underwater.
The clarity of the vocals is amazing. We heard bits of Til There Was You and Yesterday and all I wrote was "voice, voice, voice".
On Can't Buy Me Love, all the fuzzy corners of the recording have been smoothed to a crispness not seen outside a Walkers' factory, I've never heard as much guitar on Sgt Pepper before, and In My Life now wants to make me cry. More than ever.
Wonderful!
Incidently, the Adelphi was packed with Beatles fans of all ages, sex and nationality when I bobbed in earlier, all perusing Beatle memorabilia and radiating happiness (which a grungy band in the Cavern assured me, as I swung by there on the way back to the office, "is a warm gun".
I was tempted by a set of Beatles Toby jugs but the £635 price tag was a little rich for me. Or I could have picked up a cushion (£125), Beatles curtain material (£45 for a very small piece), or any numbers of rare recordings, books, photos, sheet music and the like.
And I also bumped into American artist Shannon who did all the original art work in the Hard Days Night Hotel. She was just about to start work on another picture.
Finally, read my review of Mark McGann and Pepperland from the Philharmonic Hall in tomorrow's Echo.
And remember, love is all you need......