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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Song The Beatles' "Holy Grail"?

Posted by on Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:18 PM

Unreleased Beatles music has surfaced, "Revolution 1 (Take 20)" specifically. And fans are calling it the Holy Grail. Here's what NME said about the discovered song (which hasn't yet been cleared as being authentic, by the way):

The main difference in the 'new' version of 'Revolution 1' and the version of the same song that appeared on 'The Beatles' (commonly known as 'The White Album') is the track's length. The unreleased version is a full seven minutes longer than its released counterpart.

Lyrically and structure-wise, the song doesn't differ wildly from the released version, although the entire second half of the unreleased version is made up of tape loops, vocal effects and studio trickery - some of which appears to have been sampled by The Beatles for use on their sample-heavy 'Revolution 9' track, which also appears on 'The White Album'.

You can listen to the song (and read more about it) over at Never Get Out of the Boat.

 

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It must be real, its getting taken down by EMI.
Posted by Arf on February 24, 2009 at 4:52 PM

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