Beatles Infographic

For all you Beatles fans out there, here’s an infographic detailing the differences among the 4 studio mixes for “I’m Only Sleeping.” It’s based on the work of Joseph Brennan at Columbia University. The infographic is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

The 2 US mixes are pretty hard to find, especially the US stereo mix from 20 May 1966; but thanks to Happy Nat at The Beatles Rarity, you can hear them both:. The latter was issued on Capitol ST 2553 Yesterday & Today on some later issues, circa 1973. These included (1) all tape format copies since 1966 [reel-to-reel YT-2553, eight-track 8X2T-2648 and later 8XT-2553, cassette 4XT-2553, and even the four-track 4CL-2553!], (2) Capitol record club LP copies beginning in 1968, (3) many general release LPs pressed at the Winchester plant [indicated by –<| the sideways wine glass] since 1973 (Brennan, Joseph, The Usenet Guide to Beatles Recording Variations).

• US monaural (12 May 1966)
• US stereophonic (20 May 1966)