The Beatles Anthology Highlights

The Beatles – The Beatles

the Beatles

One of George Harrison's greatest contributions to the Beatles song list. The Beatles are one of my major influences, as they are with many.

Here Comes the Sun (The Beatles- 1969)

Let it be - The Beatles

If You've Got Trouble (Beatles cover)

Recorded on Christmas Day 2005. Released on Christmas Day 2009 on the album "Crappy Road."

Crappy Road

The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill (The Beatles Cover)

I Want To Hold Your Hand

The Beatles - That means A Lot (2015 Soundcamp Stereo SI From Take 2, RM1) (Mastered by DJ TY1) at Scottsdale, AZ, USA

All credits go to 'Across the Universe' and 'The Beatles' 

2008 

All My Loving

Welcome to our new song and our interpretation / cover and tribute too The Beatles, “Free as a Bird”

History of “Free as a Bird”:

"Free as a Bird" was originally recorded by John Lennon in 1977, and although Lennon had died in 1980, the three remaining Beatles agreed they would pretend that Lennon had "gone for lunch", or had gone for a "cup of tea" The remaining Beatles, overdubs and production were done between February and March 1994, and they recorded a track around Lennon's basic song idea, but which had gaps they had to fill in musically.  Some chords were changed, and the arrangement was expanded to include breaks for McCartney and Harrison to sing extra lines. Harrison played slide guitar in the solo, and Jeff Lynne was asked to produce the song. 

The original tape of Lennon singing the song was recorded on a mono cassette, with vocals and piano on the same track, They were impossible to separate, so Jeff Lynne had to produce the track with voice and piano together, but commented that it was good for the integrity of the project, as Lennon was not only singing occasional lines, but also playing on the song.

Although the song received the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, it was very much criticised, not be a genuine Beatles song, it was seen as a publicity gimmick, exploiting the Beatles brand, and owing less to the Beatles than to Lynne.
The song reached the top 10 almost everywhere, but did not reach the number 1 position anywhere.

The Euphoriqa Production:

Matt Baker and John Styles recorded an instrumental version between June and August 2013, but it ended up on the shelf because we didn’t have the proper guitars and vocals for it.
June 2016 Hemmo Riihelä and John Styles picked up this instrumental version and continued to recording the missing Guitars and all the vocals, and adjusted the Bass, Piano’s, Synth and Strings and added some extra instruments to create the proper harmonies that would fit the lead and backing vocals.
Although we’ve given this song our own signature (especially at the encore) we’ve listened to Jeff Lynne’s way of producing this song many times, to stay as close as possible as he intended the song to be.
It took us more then a month sending tracks back and forth to complete this song the way we wanted both to sound like, especially the harmonies between the vocals and instruments gave us a lot of headaches and work to get it all done properly, but we hope we finally accomplished that anyway. 

We hope you’ll enjoy this song just as much as we did working on it.

Composer & Writer: John Lennon (edited by Paul McCarthy, George Harrison, Ringo Starr)

Euphoriqa Line-up:

Hemmo Riihelä: Lead & Backings Vocals, Bass, All acc guitars, Solo and Electric Guitars
John Styles: Backing Vocals, Piano, Keyboard, Synth and Strings 
Matt Baker: Drums, Bass, Percussion, Electric Guitar and Strings

Producer: John Styles 

Your comments, advices and critics are very much appreciated as always, as it will help us to increase our skills.

Euphoriqa - Free As A Bird (Tribute to The Beatles)

On August 14, 1964, during the recording sessions for Beatles for Sale, The Beatles recorded five takes of "Leave My Kitten Alone", adding overdubs to the last take. The song was never mixed and was not included on Beatles for Sale. Take 5 was marked as the best take (only takes 4 and 5 exist, 4 being a false start).

The song was remixed in 1982 by the late John Barrett in preparation for The Beatles at Abbey Road, a video presentation shown as part of a public tour of the Abbey Road Studios the following year.(RM '82). The song was again remixed in 1984 by Geoff Emerick in preparation for inclusion on the unreleased Sessions project (RM/RS '84). In 1994 George Martin remixed the song yet again, this time for the Anthology project (RM/RS '94); it finally saw official release on the project's first volume the following year.

Sixty Pound Live

Leave my kitten alone

THE BEATLES - NOT GUILTY (UNRELEASED OUTTAKE)

The Beatles - One After 909

The Beatles - Dear Prudence - second track on their 1968 double-disc album, the White Album. 

THE BEATLES - NOT GUILTY (UNRELEASED OUTTAKE)

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