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  • Bonus Track: A Train of Thoughts

    02 Jan 2020

    “We had decided to gather up our fragments of songs we hadn’t quite finished and create a train of thoughts…

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  • Bonus Track: Attracts Me Like a Pomegranate

    01 Jan 2020

    As with “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight,” the Abbey Road Super Deluxe Edition includes a strings-only version of “Something.” It’s a…

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  • Bonus Track: It Was 13 Bars Long

    27 Dec 2019

    The Abbey Road Super Deluxe Edition includes take 3 of “The End,” which is a very primitive version of the…

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  • Bonus Track: Perverted Sex in a Polythene Bag

    24 Dec 2019

    Like “Sun King” and “Mean Mr. Mustard,” “Polythene Pam” and “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” were recorded as…

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  • Bonus Track: A Lot of People to Keep

    22 Dec 2019

    When Abbey Road was first released on CD, the somewhat arbitrary decision was made to index each part of the…

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  • Bonus Track: Ringo Was Our Drum Machine

    16 Dec 2019

    Back in 1996, The Beatles Anthology 3 included a vocal-only version of “Because.” This is perhaps my favorite Beatles alternate…

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  • Bonus Track: I’m Losing My Cool

    14 Dec 2019

    Back on July 21, The Beatles had recorded eight takes of “Come Together.” Take 6 was the one overdubbed for…

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  • Bonus Track: The Nice Bits and the Other Bits

    13 Dec 2019

    The Super Deluxe Liner Notes are keen to mount an intellectual defense of “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” making several references to…

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  • Bonus Track: A Fear of Changing from A to F

    09 Dec 2019

    George Martin, say the Super Deluxe Liner Notes, thought that take 9 of “Here Comes the Sun” was good enough,…

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  • December 5, 1969

    05 Dec 2019

    Released today: The Rolling Stones’ eighth album and their first after the death of Brian Jones, Let It Bleed. The…

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