{"id":2498,"date":"2015-10-29T16:43:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T21:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2015-10-29T16:43:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T21:43:28","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-remastered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=2498","title":{"rendered":"A Day In The Life Remastered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AbbeyRoad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2500\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AbbeyRoad-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"AbbeyRoad\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AbbeyRoad-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AbbeyRoad-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AbbeyRoad.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Bob Berry<\/p>\n<p>This is just genius. No other word.<\/p>\n<p>The Beatles are preparing to re-release a remastered and expanded version of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1_(The_Beatles_album)\">&#8220;1&#8221; album<\/a><\/strong>, which was the first compilation of all the group&#8217;s #1 songs when it was originally released 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>And as a teaser, the group have released a video, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/watch-beatles-restored-trippy-a-day-in-the-life-video-20151028\">with stunning restored audio<\/a><\/strong>, of the closing song of Sgt. Pepper, &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Day_in_the_Life\">A Day In The Life<\/a><\/strong>&#8220;. And it&#8217;s not just the audio that will blow you away, it&#8217;s the video. Clips of &#8220;the boys&#8221; messing with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/music\/bp\/7-common-misconceptions-beatles-stones-180035017.html?nf=1\">pals Keith Richards and Mick Jagger<\/a><\/strong>, cross-cut with shots of an orchestra preparing to lay for an early session on the album.<\/p>\n<p>The intro, the first few notes of the acoustic guitar, plus the piano, brought tears to my eyes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Beatles - A Day In The Life\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/usNsCeOV4GM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A note on digital remastering. At the time of the &#8220;1&#8221; album&#8217;s original release, digital technology allowed certain improvements, the most prominent of which was tape noise reduction. But much like you and I moving\u00a0from a desktop to a hand-held device, digital audio tools have allowed&#8230;not so much a complete re-do, but rather an <em>enhancement<\/em> of the original recording, bringing us as close as we have been to being with the band, in Studio B at Abbey Road.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness for the standards in\u00a0the audio recording process by the &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/10\/the-technical-constraints-that-made-abbey-road-so-good\/381820\/\">men in white coats<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; at Abbey Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bob Berry This is just genius. No other word. The Beatles are preparing to re-release a remastered and expanded version of the &#8220;1&#8221; album, which was the first compilation of all the group&#8217;s #1 songs when it was originally released 15 years ago. And as a teaser, the group have released a video, with stunning restored audio, of the closing song of Sgt. Pepper, &#8220;A Day In The Life&#8220;. And it&#8217;s not just the audio that will blow you away, it&#8217;s the video. Clips of &#8220;the boys&#8221; messing with pals Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, cross-cut with shots of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,160,2],"tags":[644,178,6,175,645,646],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beatles","category-bob-berry","category-keener","tag-a-day-in-the-life-video","tag-john-lennon","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-the-beatles","tag-the-beatles-1","tag-the-beatles-1-digital-remastering","wpcat-5-id","wpcat-160-id","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}