{"id":353658,"date":"2026-01-05T17:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/353658\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:18:08","slug":"all-together-now-new-book-audio-set-preserves-george-martins-archival-manuscripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/353658\/","title":{"rendered":"All Together Now: New Book, Audio Set Preserves George Martin’s Archival Manuscripts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\"George<\/a>BUY NOW FROM CURVEBENDER<\/p>\n

Even with a recent wave of new\u00a0Beatles Anthology material \u2013 both on record and in a remastered version of the multi-part documentary on Disney+ \u2013 it appears there\u2019s always something new to learn about The Fab Four and the work they did. A newly-announced collectible puts that in extraordinary focus: a collection of score manuscripts from the personal archive of their producer George Martin, covering The Beatles and beyond.<\/p>\n

Announced last weekend to mark what would have been Martin\u2019s 100th birthday on January 3, George Martin: The Scores<\/a> will offer three volumes spanning more than 40 years of his studio work through life-size reproductions of music he orchestrated and annotated in studio sessions with The Beatles and others \u2013 kept in his own personal archive and offered with his full cooperation, the project having started before his passing in 2016. (A full list of songs has not been revealed, but manuscripts to The Beatles\u2019 \u201cYesterday,\u201d \u201cA Day in the Life,\u201d \u201cStrawberry Fields Forever,\u201d \u201cHere Comes the Sun\u201d are included; alongside possible additional material from Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the group\u2019s self-titled \u201cWhite Album\u201d and\u00a0Abbey Road as well as Paul McCartney\u2019s James Bond theme tune \u201cLive and Let Die.\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The first volume starts in 1965 \u2013 when, after years as a staff producer for EMI, Martin formed his own Associated Independent Recording (AIR) \u2013 and ends with the recording of\u00a0Pepper. Volume II kicks off in September 1967 and ends during the recording of\u00a0The Beatles, while the final volume spans\u00a0Abbey Road all the way to 2006. McCartney, the Beatle who most frequently collaborated with Martin after their 1970 breakup, has penned a new foreword to the set. New commentary on the works, billed as \u201caccessible even to individuals who do not read music,\u201d are printed throughout; even more exciting for fans, several arrangements have been exclusively re-recorded for this set at Studio Two in Abbey Road, and presented in multitrack form for an in-depth listening experience.<\/p>\n

George Martin: The Scores, printed by Curvebender Publishing, will be available in three formats: a standard edition, offering the three volumes in a slipcase and the re-recording multitracks on a USB drive; a deluxe edition, offering the volumes and USB drive in a clamshell box with additional collectibles, including a standalone replica of one of the scores, a conductor\u2019s baton, and a CD\/Blu-ray offering the final mixes of the re-recordings and behind-the-scenes footage of their completion; and finally, a \u201csignature edition\u201d which adds to the deluxe edition a page signed by Martin before his passing.<\/p>\n

You can pre-order the versions of\u00a0George Martin: The Scores\u00a0at Curvebender\u2019s official site<\/a>; the publisher also announced plans for a 20th anniversary expansion of Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew\u2019s book Recording The Beatles, their 2006 deep dive into the technical side of the group\u2019s recording sessions, covering equipment, technique and personnel alongside illustrations and unseen photos from the sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUY NOW FROM CURVEBENDER Even with a recent wave of new\u00a0Beatles Anthology material \u2013 both on record and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-353658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}