Unheard Beatles album 'planned'

[LauraBC]

Should I have posted this in the Neil thread? Oh well I guess you could merge it.

Unheard Beatles album 'planned'

The Beatles released three Anthology albums in the 1990s
Unreleased Beatles tracks are to be reworked for a Las Vegas circus show soundtrack, with an accompanying album reported to be lined up for release.
Producer Sir George Martin is making background music for the forthcoming Cirque du Soleil show by remastering unheard recordings by the band.

Variety says the band's label Apple Corps plans to release an album of "completely new music" from the show.

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are said to be overseeing the project.

The families of George Harrison and John Lennon have also been involved.

Announced in 2004, the Cirque du Soleil show is expected to open at the Mirage resort in Las Vegas this summer.

Remastered singles

Sir George's son Giles Martin, who is working on the project, told Variety they were trying to "achieve the same intimacy we get when listening to the master tapes at Abbey Road".

"I think we will achieve a real sense of drama with the music," he said.

"The audience will feel as though they are actually in the room with the band."

Cirque du Soleil is among the most popular Las Vegas shows

The Beatles remastered the unfinished tracks Free as a Bird and Real Love for release as singles in the mid-1990s.

The singles were taken from the band's Anthology sets of demos and rarities.

An album of the band's number one singles, entitled 1, was a chart-topper around the world in 2000.

Box sets such as the Capitol Albums collections of the US versions of the band's albums have also been released in recent years.

Link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4905630.stm)

OK- Do they mean like never before heard songs? Or just that the album is going to be new...

[Zimmerman The Gnome]

Well it cant be "New" can it?

[LauraBC]

A new snippet...

Meanwhile, Daily Variety reports that Apple Corps is working on is remastering a batch of previously unreleased Beatles tunes to be used as background music for a new Cirque du Soleil show at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The launch of the show will reportedly be accompanied by the release of an album of "completely new music."

Yahoo news (http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/eo/20060413/114497742001.html)

[Zimmerman The Gnome]

It will be interesting to hear, no matter what!

[lennonluvr9]

Yeah it will be interesting...

[thepandoras]

As long as it keeps Beatles in the news.

[See_How_They_Run]

hmmmm....let's see....Cirque de Soleil...Unreleased Songs....maybe....AND I MEAN MAYBE....CARNIVAL OF LIGHT!!!!!!

[.Psychedelic.Stars.]

Yay more "lost" Beatle songs nobody's ever heard of.

[AmericanBeatle]

Does anybody ever wonder why these recordings were never released?
Like, maybe, they weren't very good.
I mean I'm all for new stuff, but what if that new stuff kind of hurts the Beatle mystique or legend? Was it worth it then?
Look at Free as a Bird or Real Love. . .good tunes, but many people discounted them as subpar by Beatles standards and not worthy of airplay.

I always think to myself, "there was probably a reason the Lads didn't release this song or include it on an album", and maybe the sixty plus year old Lads have forgotten why that was.

I dunno, I could be rambling, but sometimes, maybe, everything should just be left well enough alone.

[cokate]

I mean I'm all for new stuff, but what if that new stuff kind of hurts the Beatle mystique or legend? Was it worth it then?


I don't know... The Beatle mystique/legend... It seems like the emphasis should be on the Beatles' music as it IS, not as they want it to be or as it should be or whatever. I think it is a wierd idea- i've never really thought that the Beatles and Cirque du Soleil had any relation- but it may work. Then again, maybe not. All we can do is hope! :)

[AmericanBeatle]

I think it is a wierd idea- i've never really thought that the Beatles and Cirque du Soleil had any relation- but it may work. :)

It's funny, but when I first read about this marriage between a Vegas act and The Beatles, I couldn't help but think about Revolution being used to sell tennis shoes, or Good Day Sunshine to sell potato chips. Uggh!

[Cream Tangerine]

Yes... the name of the show will be LOVE and the tickets are already for sale. I received an e-mail with the offer for them. Looks good, I'd like to go there.

[Lt. Pepper]

I do think that certain existing Beatles songs would transfer very we to kind of performance that we are talking about. Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite, Nowhere Man, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, and many more songs easily lend themselves to visual adaptations. This was done to great effect in the Yellow Submarine movie. I could easily see some sort of high wire act with Lucy in the Sky.

[BeatlesFan4life]

I think it will be great to hear these songs.

[Weeping Guitar]

Does anybody ever wonder why these recordings were never released?
Like, maybe, they weren't very good.
I mean I'm all for new stuff, but what if that new stuff kind of hurts the Beatle mystique or legend? Was it worth it then?
Look at Free as a Bird or Real Love. . .good tunes, but many people discounted them as subpar by Beatles standards and not worthy of airplay.

I always think to myself, "there was probably a reason the Lads didn't release this song or include it on an album", and maybe the sixty plus year old Lads have forgotten why that was.

I dunno, I could be rambling, but sometimes, maybe, everything should just be left well enough alone.

Well I liked "Free As A Bird" but do have to admit it's not the best thing I ever heard. And I understand your point about the guys having had their reasons for not releasing the stuff at the time. Although it could still be interesting to hear, and much better than some stuff modern singers are churning out.

Don't get me wrong, there are some excellent singer/songwriters around at the moment, more now than there have been for ages, but some of the current music is absolute garbage.

[BadLittleKid]

hmmmm....let's see....Cirque de Soleil...Unreleased Songs....maybe....AND I MEAN MAYBE....CARNIVAL OF LIGHT!!!!!!

Hey, that might be true.

So far only Chuck Norris has listened to Carnival of light...

[AmericanBeatle]

Well I liked "Free As A Bird" but do have to admit it's not the best thing I ever heard. And I understand your point about the guys having had their reasons for not releasing the stuff at the time. Although it could still be interesting to hear, and much better than some stuff modern singers are churning out.

Don't get me wrong, there are some excellent singer/songwriters around at the moment, more now than there have been for ages, but some of the current music is absolute garbage.

Yep, I agree, and I know I sound like an old fuddy-duddy when I say that there has been a drought of even "good" singer/songwriters for years, much less anyone coming close to Lennon/McCartney.
And, I agree with you, I also liked Free as a Bird and Real Love. They were catchy tunes, but mediocre by Beatles standards. (Possibly due to the poor sound quality of the original Lennon recordings, I don't know.)

[rwbarnes]

But you've got to admit (especially with Real Love) Jeff Lynne and George, Paul and Ringo did very well with what they had to work with. Have you heard the original John version of Real Love? The Beatles Version is far superior and much more listenable.

Just my two cents. ( I didn't care for Free As A Bird that much)

[BeatlesFan4life]

I haven't heard Real love by John Lennon.

[Exis_Beat]

Personally I like 'Free As A Bird' and 'Real Love'... even prefer them to alot of 'classic' Beatles stuff...

Yeah, ANYTHING "new" that's got anything to do with The Beatles would definitely be interesting, to say the least.

Just wish this never-before-heard "new music" was premiered to the world in Liverpool rather than Vegas. I dunno... But who am I to complain, eh? New Beatle music!!! Eek!!!

[John's Monkey]

http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1198202_4_0_,00.html

WOW!!

The modus operandi is evident in the opening number, which has the Anthology demo recording of ''Strawberry Fields Forever'' eventually morphing into the official release version; riffs culled from at least a dozen other Beatles songs are then mixed into the tune's last section, as the full cast takes over the stage. The production design is partly, though far from entirely, inspired by the Sgt. Pepper cover imagery, which meshes well with Cirque's original circus-style origins. Rusted horn instruments have been cleverly incorporated into just about every costume and prop; one stilt-walker appears to be traversing the stage on a pair of trumpets.

Another previewed number had George Harrison's ''Within You Without You'' set to the backing track of John Lennon's ''Tomorrow Never Knows.'' Sir George Martin, who produced the original tracks and worked on this show, was on hand for the event and explained that the Harrison tune ''wasn't [fans'] favorite song on Sgt. Pepper... but in this form, it would have been one of the good ones.'' Martin added that the surviving Beatles were wary of what was being done with the music till they heard this ''Within You Without You''/''Tomorrow Never Knows'' mashup — and ''then the problem was, they wanted them all like that.'' Martin and his son, Giles, who did the lion's share of the remixing, weren't able to blend many songs so completely. ''The problem was, there aren't many Beatles songs that stay on one chord,'' the elder Martin noted.

That sounds really really cool

[BadLittleKid]

Well, they didn't release everything that was cool on the Anthologies, and why they should have? I'm starting to get rather optimistic about this new Beatles music -- few months ago I just negated every possibility for 'new' stuff.