Listening to a Beatles song was a literally unforgettable moment for millions of people throughout the world, new research has found.

By Richard Alleyne and Lewis Carter

Scientists have discovered that even after more than 40 years, people can still vividly recall where they were and what they were doing when they first heard the Fab Four’s music.
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MOJO was invited to Abbey Road for a playback of 10 newly restored White Album tracks and spoke to stereo remastering engineer Guy Massey and EMI’s
special project coordinator Allan Rouse about digitally remastering the entire Beatles catalogue. The (now 3 year) remastering project has gone back to every UK studio album release plus Past Masters, the Yellow
Submarine Soundtrack and the US Magical Mystery Tour (but not, alas, Live at the Hollywood Bowl), and applied state-of-the-art digital technology to
the most scrupulus principles of musical restoration. MOJO is very enthusiastic: “They sound even better than wë’d hoped”. MOJO thinks we can hear it for ourselves in 2009. We have to wait………

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