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Creative Package

The album will come in a
massive package, including a large
book of pictures and comments
taken during the recording sessions.
All in all, it should be one of the
most intensely creative packages in a
long time.

"Abbey Road," the album just
released was done after "Get
Back," produced by the Beatles to
prove they could still put together a
tight album. It is a most impressive
work, the tightest hard rock album
I've ever heard.

The Beatles jam 18 songs onto
one record, ten of them in a fifteen
minute medley that leads off side
two. They are songs that they claim
they liked, but never had time to
finish. Paul McCartney, who wrote
most of the songs on the set, is
reported to have said "It (the
medley) lasts about as long as it
takes you to have a bath, got out,
and get dressed," While I don't
know anyone who's timed this yet,
it is an interesting concept in
packaging.