February 2008

• French mono LP contains further early mixes of several tracks

• UK mono LP loses its claim to contain any unique mixes

• New Appendix summarising the differences between all the mono versions worldwide

• Revised stereo mix released in Australia & New Zealand as early as August 1966

• Many more new details

March 2005

• Canadian mono LP contains earliest known mix of the album and reveals edits made in later versions

• New Appendix explaining the record manufacturing process and the significance of matrix numbers

• Harmonica sound in "Pledging My Time" discussed further

October 2004

• Articles updated to cover the new "remastered" plain CD edition

• Notes on the repairing of master tape drop-outs (see Note 050)

• Notes on the changing harmonica sound in "Pledging My Time"

December 2003

• Articles fully updated to cover hybrid SACD edition

September 2003

• New hybrid SACD edition released

June 2003

• Stereo mix on hybrid SACD confirmed to be the 1999 Michael Brauer mix

May 2003

• Hybrid SACD version now scheduled for release

• Details of European Digipak edition

• An even better theory on the splice in "One Of Us Must Know"

• Possible evidence that the album was postponed after a premature May 1966 release (see Note 070)

• More accurate date for the change of LP sleeve layout in the UK

• "Visions Of Johanna" - cymbal outbreak in the fourth verse

• Bob Johnston apparently not involved in the 1968/9 revision of the stereo vinyl edition (see Note 110)

January 2003

• Hybrid SACD version may be on the horizon

October 2002

• The new Sundazed mono vinyl reissue

• Interview with Sundazed's Bob Irwin about the new edition and his researches in Sony's vaults

• Numerous changes to the main text as a result . . . much more information about the original mixing and a better idea of how the revised stereo vinyl mix came about

• "One Of Us Must Know" - a reason for the splice?

• Pictures of the different inside sleeve layouts

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