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Through A Glass Onion: The Second Disc Hears Selections From The Beatles’ “White Album” Box

October 1, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

NEW YORK, NY – “We live in a perfect world of [these] anodyne, Instagrammed, perfect photographs, in-tune music, and everything in time, and The Beatles weren’t that. The Beatles had a heartbeat to them, and the story of ‘The White Album’ is the story of that heartbeat, if you’d like.” Last Wednesday morning, September 26, Giles Martin was holding court for an audience of about 70 at New York’s famed Record Plant. The subject was, of course, the legendary 1968 double-LP formally named The Beatles but known to all as The White…

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George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

Say It’s Your Birthday: The Beatles Mark 50 Years of The White Album with Deluxe Reissue

September 24, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 25 Comments

It’s officially named for the band that created it, but to listeners around the world, the 1968 double-album will forever be known as The White Album. Its sprawling, eclectic lineup of 30 tracks showcased every side of John, Paul, George, and Ringo, and cast its musical net wider from the baroque pop majesty of Sgt. Pepper’s to a heavier celebration of all things, and all sounds, rock-and-roll. Just a few of its classic songs include “Back in the USSR,” “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “Blackbird,” and “Birthday.” The dissent behind-the-scenes…

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George Harrison, George Martin, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

Review: Keely Smith, “Sings the John Lennon-Paul McCartney Songbook”

July 9, 2018 by Randy Fairman | 3 Comments

Oh yeah, I’ll tell you something I think you’ll understand… At the height of Beatlemania in 1964, some members of the so-called “older generation” still hadn’t caught on to what made the Fab Four more than the latest passing teenybopper fad. But Keely Smith was ready to make them understand. For her third album at Frank Sinatra’s Reprise Records, the smoky-voiced chanteuse set out to have the adults in the room “meet the Beatles” in a new way. Keely Smith Sings the John Lennon-Paul McCartney Songbook was one of the first in…

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Release Round-Up: Week of July 6

July 6, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Beatles, Yellow Submarine [7-Inch Single] (Capitol/Apple/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” b/w “Eleanor Rigby” returns to 7-inch vinyl as a picture disc single to mark the 50th anniversary of the animated film classic. It will be housed in a die-cut card sleeve. Read more here. Judy Garland, I Can’t Give You Anything But Love 1938-1961 (Jasmine) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This sublime new collection from Jasmine presents 24 songs examining love from all angles…

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Barenaked Ladies, Judy Garland, The Beatles, Vince Guaraldi

And The Band Begins To Play: The Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” Celebrates 50 With New Single Release

May 30, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

On July 6, The Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” will be reissued as a 7-inch picture disc vinyl single to mark the 50th anniversary of the beloved animated film of the same name which was originally released on July 17, 1968. The Capitol/UMe single release will coincide with new theatrical screenings of the movie, featuring a 4K restoration by Paul Rutan Jr., Triage Motion Picture Services, and Eque Inc;, and a 5.1 surround remix by Peter Cobbin at Abbey Road. The vinyl single will be housed in a die-cut card sleeve, and will include…

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Surround Yourself with Cilla: Cherry Red, SFE Launch Ambitious Cilla Black Reissue Campaign

May 29, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Surprise, surprise…it’s Cilla here! Cherry Red’s Strike Force Entertainment imprint has great news for fans of the late Cilla Black. On July 27, SFE launches a new reissue campaign dedicated to Cilla’s discography with a pair of deluxe, generously expanded 2-CD releases. These releases coincide with what would have been Cilla’s 75th birthday year. The first set pairs 1969’s George Martin-produced Surround Yourself with Cilla with 1976’s It Makes Me Feel Good, produced by David Mackay (Cliff Richard, Blue Mink, The New Seekers). The second set jumps ahead in time to offer…

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Burt Bacharach, Cilla Black, Cliff Richard, The Beatles

Let the Music Begin: Real Gone Reissues Michelle Phillips’ “Victim of Romance” and Keely Smith’s Lennon-McCartney Album in June

April 23, 2018 by Randy Fairman | 14 Comments

We’ve filled you in about some of Real Gone Music’s releases for June, including releases from Cheap Trick and The Quick, but now we’ve got word of a couple of more, this time from “Mama” Michelle Phillips and Keely Smith, both due June 1. The first is a reissue of Michelle Phillips’ one and only solo album from 1977: Victim of Romance. This new edition features liner notes by our very own Joe Marchese. After the break-up of The Mamas & The Papas, Cass Elliott, Denny Doherty and John Phillips began releasing…

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Jack Nitzsche, Keely Smith, Michelle Phillips, The Beatles, The Mamas and The Papas

Give Me Peace On Earth: Craft Reissues ‘Concert For George’ In Various Formats

January 17, 2018 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

George Harrison would have been 75 years old next month, and Craft Recordings is celebrating that milestone with the ultimate tribute to the former Beatle: a multi-format reissue of 2002’s Concert For George. Available February 23, two days before Harrison’s birthday, Concert For George will bow in five different physical configurations – the most enormous of which is an online-only box set, limited only to 1,000 copies worldwide and featuring the star-studded tribute show on two CDs, two DVDs, two Blu-ray Discs and four 180-gram LPs. This 12″ x 12″ box set…

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Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews

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Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Monty Python, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles, The Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Holiday Gift Guide Review: The Beatles, “The Christmas Records”

December 20, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Dear Beatle People… When the future Sir George Martin first encountered John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he famously wasn’t impressed by their music. “They weren’t hit material, I didn’t think, anyway,” he reflected to CBS News. “But they had tremendous charisma, those guys. I fell in love with them, really. They were cheeky and they had this sparkle…” That charisma and most definitely that sparkle shines through on a surprise new release just in time for the holiday season. The Christmas Records from Apple and Universal Music is…

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Release Round-Up: Week of December 15

December 15, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Beatles, The Christmas Records (Capitol/Apple/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Happy Christmas, Beatle people! The Christmas Records, a seven-disc vinyl box set from the Fab Four, features colored 45 RPM recreations of the Beatles’ original Christmas fan club flexi-discs (all single-sided except for the last two in 1968 and 1969). The original sleeve artwork has been recreated for each title, and an enclosed 16-page booklet offers recording notes plus reproductions of the newsletters sent with each disc! The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts…

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Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Ethiopian and His All-Stars, Gladiators, Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Otis Redding, Stan Getz, The Beatles, The Guess Who

Happy Christmas, Beatle People! New Fab Four Holiday Vinyl Box, ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Remix Hi-Def Audio and Vinyl Announced

November 2, 2017 by Mike Duquette | 14 Comments

The Beatles are planning three special gifts for collectors, just in time for the Christmas season: a vinyl box set of the band’s beloved Christmas messages to fans, plus new editions of this year’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band remix and reissue on vinyl and hi-def digital audio. All three titles hit stores December 15! If you were a Beatlemaniac during the band’s original heyday, nothing could be better than getting a special present from The Beatles Fan Club. Seven original flexi-discs released each December between 1963 and 1969 in England…

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Review: The Beatles, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition”

May 26, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 17 Comments

I. It Was Fifty Years Ago Today… I read the news today, oh, boy! It’s a new day in Pepperland thanks to today’s release of the most eagerly-anticipated reissue project of the year: the 50th anniversary deluxe box set of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. This would be a landmark collection for any number of reasons: that Pepper is routinely considered one of the greatest albums, if not the greatest album, of all time; that this is the first-ever “Expanded Edition” of a Beatles album; that the entire LP…

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 26

May 26, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band various editions (Apple/Capitol/UMe) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 4CD/DVD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. The Beatles’ seminal 1967 celebrates its 50th anniversary in style with a multitude of new editions featuring Giles Martin’s brand-new – and quite frankly, mind-blowing – new stereo mix! Look for our full review of the 4CD/DVD/BD box later…

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Bad Company, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Foreigner, Grateful Dead, Jaco Pastorius, Midnight Oil, The Beatles, The Beau Brummels, The Rolling Stones, Tim Rice

Guaranteed to Raise a Smile: The Second Disc Hears The 50th Anniversary “Sgt. Pepper” Remix

May 3, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 9 Comments

NEW YORK (NY) – Could it really be getting better? That was a fair question on the lips of the crowd assembled last Friday, April 28, at New York City’s World of McIntosh Townhouse. The Second Disc was privileged to be among those members of the press assembled for a “first listen” to the upcoming 50th anniversary stereo remix of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, due for release on May 26 from Capitol, UMe, and Apple Records. Jeff Jones, the chief executive of Apple Corps, and Giles Martin, producer…

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Getting Better All the Time: The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper” Reissued for Its 50th Anniversary

April 5, 2017 by Mike Duquette | 30 Comments

“It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play They’ve been going in and out of style But they’re guaranteed to raise a smile So may I introduce to you The act you’ve known for all these years Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band!” With that verse, The Beatles quite honestly changed popular music. Their eighth studio album, and the first since their final concert tour, ushered in a sea change of rock and roll–a focus on the long-playing album over singles as focal artistic point, an introduction…

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Fab Gear: RPM Premieres Mortimer’s Lost Apple Records Album

March 8, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Another missing piece of the Apple Records puzzle has just emerged thanks to Cherry Red’s RPM Records label. Between February and April 1969, the New York band Mortimer worked with producer Peter Asher (Peter and Gordon, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt) at London’s Trident Studios to craft an LP for The Beatles’ Apple Records label. The Fabs’ imprimatur was firmly in place: John Lennon had passed their music onto Apple, George Harrison had encouraged their signing, and Paul McCartney had given them a song: a little Lennon/McCartney ditty called “On Our Way Home,”…

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“Tomorrow’s” Here! New Reissue Shines Light on The Modulators

February 28, 2017 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

When news came through that Brooklyn label Manufactured Recordings was reissuing Tomorrow’s Coming, the sole full-length LP by cult power-pop group The Modulators, we at Second Disc HQ knew we couldn’t just do an ordinary news post. It’s not just the music–although the music, a sugary-sweet blend of Raspberries-esque dream pop and Marshall Crenshaw-ian jangle-crunch, is thoroughly worth your time. Ultimately, our interest is piqued by the original label that released Tomorrow’s Coming: Vintage Vinyl Records, the boutique label of New Jersey’s largest independent record store and the place both myself and…

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Thirty Three and 1/3: Complete George Harrison Box Set Arrives In February

January 18, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

On February 25, George Harrison would have turned 74 years old. One day earlier, UMe and the estate of the late Beatle will release his entire solo album catalogue in one new vinyl box set. George Harrison – The Vinyl Collection includes newly-remastered editions of 13 albums, from Wonderwall Music (1968) to the posthumously released Brainwashed (2002). Each album has been remastered at Capitol Studios from the original tapes and pressed onto 180-gram vinyl. The albums are all packaged in replica sleeves, and the entire set comes in one sturdy slipcase. While…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 18

November 18, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up – the last of the major release weeks for 2016! The Beatles, Eight Days a Week (DVD or BD) (Apple/Capitol) 2-Disc Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-Disc DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Edition Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Edition DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Ron Howard’s acclaimed 2016 documentary chronicling Beatlemania, Eight Days a Week, hits DVD and Blu-ray. The standard editions offer the film only, while the 2-disc Deluxe Editions add over 100…

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Donna Summer, Gene Autry, Jethro Tull, R.E.M., Roy Acuff, Soundgarden, The Beatles, The Who, Tim Buckley, Tori Amos

Accentuate The Positive: Capitol Records Turns 75, Plans New Vinyl Reissues

November 2, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

Capitol Records, the venerable label founded by Johnny Mercer with B.G. DeSylva and Glenn Wallichs and now a unit of Universal Music Group, turns 75 next year. In celebration of this landmark anniversary, the label has announced three new initiatives. The first of these endeavors is The Capitol Records 75th Anniversary Collection, a series of 75 vinyl reissues from various genres curated by “noted music journalists, authors and other renowned creative figures.” The Beatles are represented (naturally!) with five titles, Frank Sinatra with four, and The Band, Bonnie Raitt, and The Beach…

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Bobby Darin, Bonnie Raitt, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mercer, The Band, The Beach Boys, The Beatles

Ace Collects Classic Beatles Covers On “Let It Be: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney and Harrison”

October 18, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

If there was ever any doubt as to the versatility, adaptability and endurance of the songs of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, it would certainly be dispelled by Ace’s new release of Let It Be: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney and Harrison. The latest volume in the label’s Black America Sings series (also encompassing volumes dedicated to Sam Cooke, Bob Dylan, Otis Redding, and the team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David) and the second dedicated to the music of The Beatles, Let It Be features a staggering array of…

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Aretha Franklin, Bill Withers, Dionne Warwick, Mary Wells, Nina Simone, The Beatles, The Four Tops, The Supremes, The Temptations, Various Artists

Review: The Beatles, “Live at The Hollywood Bowl”

September 9, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 12 Comments

And now…here they are…The Beatles! The summers of 1964 and 1965 are now more than fifty years in the rearview mirror, yet the music made by four lads from Liverpool over three evenings at Los Angeles’ famous Hollywood Bowl now sounds so fresh and so immediate, you could believe it was recorded yesterday. Such is the work of the sonic wizards on Capitol/Apple/UMe’s first-time-on-CD, retitled, remixed and expanded reissue of The Beatles’ Live at the Hollywood Bowl (B0025451-02, 2016). Capitol Records first captured John, Paul, George and Ringo at the venerable Los…

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 9

September 9, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up…one of the most packed in recent memory! Beatles, Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Apple/Capitol/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Since the advent of the compact disc era, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl has been the forgotten stepchild of the Fab Four’s legendary catalogue. That changes today with the first-ever commercial CD/DD release of the 1977 album on September 9 via Apple/UMe. The newly-retitled, remixed, remastered and expanded Live at the Hollywood Bowl will arrive one week in…

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Blue Oyster Cult, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Faith No More, Herb Alpert, John Phillips, Leon Russell, Linda Ronstadt, Ramones, The Beatles, The Connells

Ticket to Ride: The Beatles’ “Live at The Hollywood Bowl” Arrives In September

July 20, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 21 Comments

Since the advent of the compact disc era, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl has been the forgotten stepchild of the Fab Four’s legendary catalogue. That’s about to change with the first-ever commercial CD/DD release of the 1977 album on September 9 via Apple/UMe. The newly-retitled, remixed, remastered and expanded Live at the Hollywood Bowl will arrive one week in advance of the September 16 premiere of director Ron Howard’s documentary film Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years which chronicles the Fabs between 1962 and 1966. Capitol Records first captured John, Paul, George and Ringo…

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