The Beatles - UNSURPASSED PROMOS - The Studio Years DVD2 (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

This disc - the last in the series - continues with the colour promos made from 1968 onwards.

Every effort has been made to provide the best possible images. Where broadcast quality video is available, it has been used and augmented with other sources as necessary. As a result, only a couple of clips are of lesser quality. The audio has once again been synchronised from the mono mixes, except in those instances where a live track was recorded.

Now sit back and enjoy these classic Beatles performances the way you've never experienced them before...


01 - Hey Jude (3 versions)
02 - Two Of Us
03 - Let It Be
04 - The Long And Winding Road
05 - Get Back (v1)
06 - Don't Let Me Down
07 - I've Got A Feeling
08 - The One After 909
09 - Dig A Pony
10 - Get Back (v2)
11 - The Ballad Of John And Yoko
12 - Something
13 - Bonus Track
14 - 5.1 Slideshow

Hey Jude - The group did three takes. Take 1 is presented here uninterrupted. Only the second half of take 2 is available, from a broadcast in the US on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (where it was edited together with the first half of take 1... I've removed this to avoid endless duplication and make comparisons easier). Take 3 is also complete and is the one broadcast in Frost On Sunday. At least one further short snatch from take 2 is included in the Anthology edit on disc 1, where the redhead in the white dress can be seen being hoisted (or, rather, dragged bodily) up onto the podium.

Two Of Us through Get Back - I've completely re-laid the audio in stereo here, and made sure that it is synchronised properly. These are not the official promos of Get Back, Don't Let Me Down or Let It Be, but I felt that they were far more interesting (for those who want them, they are available in mediocre quality on Picture Perfect's Chronology). Most of these are the uncropped full-frame versions, including Two Of Us and Get Back which were distributed to promote Naked. In Don't Let Me Down I've removed the street footage and replaced it with actual performance footage from another Naked promo. This street footage then nicely covered some of the interviews seen in I've Got a Feeling. One After 909 was issued to promote the remastered cds in 2009... here it has a small and fairly innofensive logo. Dig A Pony, Get Back (2) and I've Got A Feeling are from an unbooted tape. While slightly cropped at the top and sides, they are still far less zoomed-in than any other available versions.

The Movie Medley - I don't think the original video was in stereo, so I've added a strereo soundtrack. The dodgy synch is part of its charm, so I left it as it is.