It’s the opposite of a holiday where you forget the rain and remember the great bits you had, with this I think we all just remembered all the bad times – particularly because they were caught on camera. There were arguments, there were disagreements, but at the same time there were lots of friendly moments. It was painful for us and I think it did contribute largely to the breakup. We’ve just gone back, taken off all the ‘extras’ and now it sounds exactly as it was in the room at the time – you’re right there.”We were being constantly filmed or taped and all these tensions were being laid bare, there was no way they could be disguised. What you’re hearing now is the sound the four of us made in the studio, but when the album came out the sound of the songs had been changed in the studio to suit the ‘soundtrack’ element. So it just is more faithful to actually us in the room and I think that’s a very good thing. And we didn’t all sit around going ssss! You know. They’re still through all the nice warm amps that they were through so it’s exactly as it was in the room but with modern technology you can, for instance, take the hiss off, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing because you didn’t have hiss when we played it. It’s not as if we’ve now put everything, all the guitars through digital amps. If we’d have had today’s technology, then, it would sound like this because that was the noise we made in the studio. You suddenly, you’re in a clearer room with the guys and I’m right there with John right opposite me in the new mix you know and I think that’s what helps bring the energy right there. One of the things that occurred to me while I was listening to it is that if you look into Winston Churchill’s old papers, they get browner and they get crinklier but the Beatles’ stuff, it gets shinier and newer with new technology. What you see is what you get and now in its unadorned form, there it is exactly as we made it, so that is the sort of shining glory of those events that took place then.
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