The ten years after the nine o' nine!

Today actually marks the tenth anniversary of issuing of "The Beatles Remastered" and specifically the day in which I had my "The Beatles in Mono" box set, quite possibly the most expensive musical purchase I made (so far!)
Given it's being written on this blog and not the one the original piece was written, put simply  in general the cds issued in 1987/8 were widely criticized for being poor sounding being rushed and for not having the sort of presentation fitting for the most important musical act of the twentieth century.
Specifically the catalogue of albums as issued then ignored the fact that mono versions both sounded different having radically different mixes and were more overseen by the Beatles themselves being more complete whereas the the stereo versions were rushed and done by studio engineers alone.
The clamour for those versions had lead to a short lived mono reissue series in 1981 but by 1987 when the first cds were issued all that was ignored.
This time around it was decided to issue all those mono albums as a set and the remastered stereo versions either in a set or individually.

That tied in well with another idea well executed which was each album would be packaged as a miniature lp with outer plus inner sleeves that matched the original lp issues and in the case of the white album the posters too.

As you can see from the photograph above they all fit snugly in one box with a booklet explaining their history.
That whole package sold itself to me as only thing I really wanted outside of the new stereo cds of Abbey Road, Let It Be and the Past Masters set that rounded up stray singles and tracks otherwise not to be found within the original studio lps.
This set is something that is treasured as an object of art, played often for the music contained with it and easily was the best couple of hundred pounds I ever spent.