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On ‘Crippled Inside’, we thought we’d have just the drums and that slap bass sound with the delay on it. John composed the string arrangements to be relatively simple and confidently placed – sometimes strong, sometimes delicate. In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked Lennon in the Top 5 of the magazine’s “100 Greatest Singers Of All Time” list. One of the biggest accomplishments of the new mixes is that by going back to the very original multitrack recordings (rather than copies, bounces or mix-downs) the guitar, bass, piano and vocal now have a completely new level of clarity.

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In 1971, before they recorded the strings in New York, John, Yoko and Phil did a stereo mix at Ascot Sound Studios, and having that original mix without strings helped in matching the new mixes to the originals. Stripped down, the songs and performances are put into sharp focus: Listening to ‘Gimme Some Truth’ with no slap echo on the voice, you can feel the froth coming out of John’s mouth. So these buried elements have now been opened up and are presented on a wider and brighter soundstage – to reveal deeper levels of detail and clarity, especially in 5. For the singles, we put the ‘Power To The People’ choir all around the listener, and as ‘Happy Xmas (War Is Over)’ was recorded using sixteen track tape machines, we had a lot more material to work with. A little funkier and with more improvisation from Nicky Hopkins on electric piano and George Harrison on electric guitar, this early combination of the two takes has a wonderful ‘live’ feel.In the Quadrasonic Mixes, there are times when, literally, there is one thing equally coming out of all four speakers at once, which sounds like it’s coming out of all four speakers at once – there’s no focus at the centre. Inner sleeve has credits in a spiral, with artist photos; flipside has lyrics in a 'starburst' style, printed black on non-punched, unlined white paper. Northern Ireland emerging music festival, established from a need to support and develop homegrown artists at a time when a music industry in Northern Ireland was barely in its infancy. When I heard them, I was quite happy with what we had done, because they had been mixed in totally different ways, which complement each other really well. Over the years it expanded throughout the creative landscape delivering a host of creative and practical projects and initiatives for the rural area of Mid Ulster.

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The writing skills are still in a class of there own,compare it to the total non entities of now eg boy bands,hip hop just absolutely nothing nothing to at all phones fakers z rated ,Compared to politicians,bankers,modern day corporate cripples and yuppies what do they stand for absolutely nothing,to leave a lasting legacy. One of the most exciting discoveries in this project was that the original recordings of the strings sound so beautiful. Elliot conducted his first interview with John on 10 October 1971, the day after Lennon’s 31st birthday.

This made the album easier to remix with greater sonic clarity, because we had so much more individual control over each track. You will hear some ideas being tried out and then abandoned – for example, the instrumentation on ‘Imagine’; the challenges posed by some of John’s quirky rhythms, as during the session for ‘How?