And as for the Capitol releases...
I have always been cynical about the Capitol records. All the songs on a particular album have come to a special standing on that album, and I think the sick, demented compending of tracks on the Capitol albums is wrong. However, I respect the fact that they have been brought up with Capitol Records and we (Europe and Australiasia) have been brought up with Parlophone. And I think it is brilliant that Americans will finally be able to listen to the Beatles' music the way that THEY were meant to hear it - instead of our albums (PPM, WTB, HDN, etc.) on CD.
They won't change anything on the albums (such as making Sgt. Pepper 'the way it was supposed to be'). They'll make it the way the original Capitol LPs had it - just like all of the later albums - exactly like the Parlophone recordings.
BTW: The tracks that the Parlophone have in mono were made into stereo for Capitol only by artificial means - bass on one side, and treble on the other - with "loads of added echo".
