How The Beatles made 'Rubber Soul' and broke up with their past
All Songs Considered

How The Beatles made 'Rubber Soul' and broke up with their past

B1IntermediateOctober 6, 202641 min
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A super deluxe box set of The Beatles' legendary 1965 album Rubber Soul has just been released with brand new mixes, demos and outtakes that show The Beatles breaking up with the past, their fans and everything people knew and loved about the band. In this conversation with All Songs Considered host Robin Hilton, Giles Martin, the producer behind the new mixes and son of late Beatles producer George Martin, talks about why Rubber Soul was such a pivotal album for the band, how the music was changing, and why it sounds “reasonably bleak.” Martin also explains how the AI too...

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This episode of All Songs Considered comes to you from NPR Music. I'm Robin Hilton and this week on the show we're going to take a break from brand new music and talk about a legendary album that's been given a whole new life. Rubber Soul by the Beatles. A super deluxe box set of the 1965 album, Rubber Soul just came out and it's got a

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lot of the stuff that you usually get with these sorts of things. You know, lots of previously unreleased outtakes and demos. There's a book of photos and essays about every track, but it's also got a completely remixed version of the album. Remixed, which means it sounds like nothing you've ever heard before from

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