Getting Better – gets better

26. maj 2017

Den sang på Sgt. Pepper’s, som jeg altid har haft en (til dels uforklarlig…) forkærlighed for, er “Getting Better”. Den er sågår blevet min ringetone på mobilen. Paradoksalt nok, så er det sangens karakter af renlivet rock med en guitar, hvis akkorder mejsles ud og suppleres af McCartneys elektriske klaver, der ligger til grund for min forkærlighed for nummeret. Paradoksalt, fordi pladen som helhed jo udmærker sig ved det avancerede og eksperimenterende i rocken.

Og derfor er det lidt sjovt at læse, at netop det nummer forekommer Niles Martin – Producer George Martins søn, der har stået for den nye bearbejdning af pladens lydbilleder – at være særligt vellykket. Til The Independent fortæller han:

Is there a track you’re even happier with the turnout of than you expected?

‘Getting Better,’ ironically. There’s one bit in ‘Getting Better’ where I thought, “Yeah, what we’re doing here is really good.” It’s the drop down section. [Our remix] is much clearer. If you listen to the same bit on the stereo, it’s like you’re missing half of it – it doesn’t have the same effect. You can sense what they were trying to do in that section of the song – I know what my father was trying to do. So [engineer] Sam Okell and I are just trying to get there. It’s a good example of us thinking, “This seems better.”

Om “Getting better” så lyder bedre i den nye udgave, vil jeg overlade til andre om at bedømme, men det er stadigvæk det nummer, der har min forkærlighed…

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