They will always be the Mozart and great innovators of pop music in the 20th century, but much is also being done in terms of marketing to keep The Beatles alive. Giles Martin, for example, took over from his father and original producer George Martin to give the world-famous Beatles recordings a new, 21st-century zest. In his remixes, deeply buried guitars and sounds suddenly appeared and Ringo
… Starr became a power drummer. It leads to much debate - purists will continue to swear by the original mixes (mono or otherwise). Yours truly prefers to listen to the 2009 remasters, the latter by George Martin, who died in 2016 (the man knew what he was doing). Now that Giles Martin is done with the oeuvre, his mixes are being used for reissues of the 1973 Red and Blue retrospective albums. These two double albums pulled the band into the 1970s three years earlier and have done their job ever since as the most glossy overviews of the Beatles oeuvre. In addition to the new mixes, additional tracks were added. In addition, 1967-1970 concludes with the final posthumous single/earworm Now And Then.(MR)more
