The Beatles 50th anniversary 'White Album' remix, expanded box set due Nov. 9
Another year, another Beatles 50th anniversary remix box set.
This time, it’s the Fab Four’s sprawling 1968 double album “The Beatles,” a.k.a. the White Album, that’s getting a sonic freshening up, to be accompanied in the seven-disc “super deluxe” box set by dozens of demo recordings and alternate takes of songs — more than 100 tracks in all — from what is the bestselling title of all the fabled quartet’s original studio releases.
It follows last year’s half-century anniversary edition of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” which was greeted by near universal acclaim for the updated stereo mix, accompanying surround sound version archival recordings that never previously had seen the light of day.
The forthcoming 50th anniversary White Album, out Nov. 9, brings out even more alternate takes and unreleased material because the Beatles spent even more time working up the 30 songs that made the final cut for the groundbreaking 1968 album released on Nov. 22, 1968.
Source: By Randy Lewis/LA TImes
