[Trevor]

On 31/01/2017 10:07 PM, John Williamson wrote:
On 31/01/2017 07:21, Trevor wrote:

Yes sad to think how little care was put into the original CD issues
considering how long Beatles fans had already waited for them, and how
many were likely to be sold, and were.


I suspect the marketing department were thinking along the lines that
anything better than the cassettes that most of the fans were listening
to would be sellable, so why spend real money doing as decent job on the
conversions? Plus, in 1987, CD's were still NEW!!!!

Not so. CD's had been around for years and fans bemoaning the fact that
the most popular band ever were not available long after reissues from
most other artists.


would, at least initially, sell easily, no matter what their real
shortcomings were.

And they did of course. That was never in doubt! Which is why any extra
cost in doing it properly would add cents at the most to each copy sold.
Sadly the record companies are always more interested in how many more
times they can sell the same music to the same fans. :-(


Don't forget, the company doing the '87 reissues had very little
connection with the performers, so were unlikely to have them or even
George Martin on the phone moaning about the quality of the remastering
until it was too late.

As if the record companies ever care what the artists think. :-(

Trevor.