In Reply to: According to an article I read, the release is indeed a "sonic collage" posted by racerguy on October 17, 2006 at 06:03:19:
I'd describe it more as a musical than a circus but here are press releases from NPR and Fox News on the show. This may not be a Beatles boxed set, but it is the real thing.The Beatles songs are more than a base - they are the real songs. However, most will be fragments.From NPR:
The result of Martin's modern remake of Beatles recordings is a panorama of sound, mash-ups and alternate vocal takes. There are 25 full songs in Love, with more than 100 other fragments, during the performance in a specially built theater at the Mirage hotel.
From Fox News
The real success of “Love†depends a lot on Sir George Martin, the Beatles’ producer. Watching the show, you can only think that none of this would be possible if the person who assembled the music didn’t know it inside and out. Martin and son Giles have literally taken the Beatles original recordings and, in many instances, turned them inside out.
Some songs are intact, but they are few. Instead, the Martins have pieces together unexpected medleys, woven in bits and pieces of the Beatles music with other fragments, and then stitched them like elements of a tapestry into a larger setting.
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- Probably a little of both - Pacman 13:47:11 10/17/06 (0)