The release this week of the remastered Beatles albums has been a pretext for all manner of theories about why they were so good, so much better than other pop groups of the time.
Here’s mine: they were grammar school boys.
There is another. I caught the last part of a programme on Radio 2 about the technical side of the remastering – really interesting. It just goes to show what can be achieved with ingenuity, skill, determination & yes, genius, even without the miracles of digital technology – the original recordings were a triumph of engineering along with everything else. But as part of the explanations in the progaramme they sometimes played just original takes of a single track, in particular 2 which had just Paul, then John singing unaccompanied. I was very surprised to hear how sweet & true were their voices - not at all what you think of when you think of the Beatles.
