Sessions (album)

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Sessions
Compilation album by The Beatles
Label (s) Apple Records

Format (s)

planned: LP

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

13

production

George Martin

Studio (s)

Abbey Road Studios

chronology
20 Greatest Hits
(1982) 		Sessions Past Masters
(1988)
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Sessions ( English sessions ) is an unreleased album by the British band The Beatles , should be included on the 1985 first unreleased material of the band. The publication was stopped at short notice by the three Beatles who were still alive at the time.

The album should contain thirteen songs, some of which were completely unreleased or can be heard in unknown versions. In addition, a single with the unreleased title Leave My Kitten Alone should appear on the A side and an alternate version of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da on the B-side .

History of origin

In 1976, the Beatles' nine-year record deal with EMI expired , which initially led to the publication of numerous compilations of well-known songs by the band. At the same time, the extensive archives of EMI were searched for commercially exploitable unpublished songs by the Beatles. In-house audio cassettes were made with the material found, one of which was made public through an unknown route.

In 1981 and 1982 a sound engineer searched the EMI archives again for usable material and cataloged them for the first time. In 1983 visitors to Abbey Road Studios were able to hear some of these work results on site.

Geoff Emerick , a former Beatles sound engineer, first put together titles for an album of unreleased Beatles material in 1984. In order to meet the tonal requirements of the 1980s, almost all tracks were shortened by cuts or fadeouts and remixed. November 1984 was planned as the release date of the album, now called Sessions . At the same time, however, the solo album Give My Regards to Broad Street by Paul McCartney was to be released, so that the release of Sessions was postponed to February 25, 1985 for marketing reasons.

Only then were the Beatles Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr , who were still alive, and the representatives of John Lennon, who died in 1980, informed about the Sessions project . The Beatles, who were still alive, immediately intervened against the publication and announced that they would like to discuss the format of the publication.

A copy of the master tape of the album Sessions fell into the hands of bootleggers , whereupon several black presses of the album appeared.

Three double albums were released in 1995 as part of the Anthology series, some of which were based on the mixes that had been made as part of the Sessions project.

Track list

  1. Come and Get It (McCartney)
  2. Leave My Kitten Alone ( John / Turner / McDougal)
  3. Not Guilty (Harrison)
  4. I'm Looking Through You (alternative version) ( Lennon / McCartney )
  5. What's the New Mary Jane (Lennon / McCartney)
  6. How Do You Do It? (Mitch Murray)
  7. Besame Mucho (Velasquez / Skylar)
  8. One After 909 (alternative version) (Lennon / McCartney)
  9. If You've Got Trouble (Lennon / McCartney)
  10. That Means a Lot (Lennon / McCartney)
  11. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (alternative version) (Harrison)
  12. Mailman, Bring Me no More Blues (Roberts / Katz / Clayton)
  13. Christmas Time (Is Here Again) (Lennon / McCartney / Harrison / Starkey)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richie Unterberger: The Unreleased Beatles . San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2006. pp. 373 f.
  2. ↑ The Road to Sessions ( Memento from May 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) ( English ).
  3. ^ Rainer Moers, Claus-Dieter Meier, Matthias Bühring: The Beatles, Argument Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-88619-698-2 .
  4. ↑ EMI press release of May 26, 1985
  5. ↑ Jim Berke city and Belmo: Black Market Beatles: The Story behind the lost Recordings. Burlington (Ontario): Collector's Guide Publishing, 1995. p. 91.