The Beatles: All These Years by Mark Lewisohn. Tune In - What do you think? (Spoilers alert!) | Page 13 | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

I do wonder what volume 2 is going to cover. Would it cover the rest of the band’s career up to the breakup and the proposed volume 3 cover everything up the date of publication? That’s how I’d do it, at least.

Or is there going to be a somewhat sharper divide, almost akin to what the Anthology CDs did in terms of the periods they covered?

Well, even that alone would be great! I’ll be proud to have all three in my collection, especially next to the Hunter Davies book, the Anthology book, and the Get Back book.

I don’t know what’s going on with the Archive series; I personally would’ve done certain parts better, like having things on disc, not the whole “digital only MP3 download” things. There’s certainly not a lot of rhyme or reason to some sets, like the Flowers In The Dirt set.

And I’m certainly aware that Lewisohn probably feels right now that he’s racing the clock to finish before he dies, that’s his greatest fear. Much like Ulysses S. Grant writing his memoirs, which he managed to finish only four days before he died.

Clearly, whoever runs things with Paul’s sets doesn’t quite understand things. The 3 CD/1 DVD set is done all wrong. CD 2 could’ve had all the Paul/Costello demos and tracks, CD 3 have all the digital only tracks. Whose idea was it to do things this way?

Well, I’m sad to say that Paul doesn’t quite know how the process works or how best to utilize the Internet. I mean, I’m not surprised, I don’t think he spends a lot of time even using a computer. It would be better if he’d delegated more responsibility, and they probably would’ve made more sensible packaging.