Should The Beatles have been remixed?

Love - the album that remixes original Beatles mastertapes has been a huge sales success but was it right to tamper with history?

Is it refreshing and novel or is it a commercial bid to get fans to buy another repackaged album?

This is the question that Uncut poses in this month's Fight Club poll - We asked Scritti Politti's Green Gartside and Squeeze's Chris Difford to give us their opinions to help start the debate...

Gartside is in favour - he loves that Love "defamiliarises the material, with new juxtapositions and balances, and lets you hear voices and parts a little more exposed than they usually are."

On the other hand, as Difford points out that "The Beatles are ingrained in our fabric, in the way Shakespeare would have been... I've always been wary of people opening up other people's tombs, like with the Egyptians. What kind of spirit are you releasing?

For the full Fight Club debate, get the latest issue of Uncut, on sale now - then tell us what you think.

Uncut has five copies of The Beatles Love album to giveaway to voters picked at random.

Poll closes January 31st. Results will be published in the March issue.

Shoud The Beatles have been remixed?
Yes
No


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