The dual-source remediation queue opened last week is drained. Three pages — Let It Be, Get Back, From Me to You — were deepened from Lewisohn-only to full two-source treatment, and the material the second source added is exactly why the rule exists.
The Apple Studios story alone justified the pass: the Beatles’ January 1969 sessions ran through two retired Abbey Road REDD consoles lent to Apple after the famously non-functional custom desk was abandoned, with the eight-track — a 3M M23 — documented as George Harrison’s personal machine. The rooftop concert’s Neumann U67s wore nylon stockings as improvised windshields. And for From Me to You, Kehew & Ryan’s close look at the 5 March 1963 session — the most detailed published take-by-take reconstruction of any 1963 Beatles session — documented a twin-track overdubbing approach unique in the band’s canon, and explains why the 1966 stereo mix carries no harmonica.
A related sweep corrected release-history language on the Let It Be-era pages: prose written when the Glyn Johns mixes were “unreleased” is no longer accurate — they have been officially available since the 2021 special-edition box — and the pages now say so.
This build log
Today the site gains two new top-level sections: Articles, opening soon with long-form essays, and this Build Log. The log documents the real process of building BeatlesAnswers.org — the engineering, the editorial standards, and the mistakes, which are usually the instructive part. The entries behind this one were reconstructed this week from the project’s session records, which have logged every working session since the plan was formalised in May; each entry is dated to the week it documents and confined to what the record supports. That is, not coincidentally, the same discipline the song pages live under.
The cadence from here is one post a week, alongside the enrichment campaign’s one-page-per-session rhythm: 48 of 214 song pages carry the deep recording treatment so far, 11 carry navigation metadata for the analysis tools, and the long tail is long. Progress is on the homepage chart, updated at every session close. See you next week.