Feb 24, 2009 • 1 min read

Seemingly new version of Beatles' Revolution surfaces online

An apparently unreleased alternative version of The Beatles' 'Revolution', titled 'Revolution 1 Take 20', has appeared on YouTube, though its origin is unclear.

What appears to be previously unreleased material by the Beatles has appeared online.

The track, which has appeared on YouTube among other places, is called 'Revolution 1 Take 20', and is seemingly another alternative version of the Fab Four's 1968 track 'Revolution', which originally appeared on the b-side to 'Hey Jude', and two alternative versions of which - 'Revolution 1' and 'Revolution 9' - appeared on 'The White Album'.

The new version is quite a bit longer than anything that has gone before and could be seen, musically speaking, as the missing link between the rather disparate 'Revolution 1' and 'Revolution 9'.

That said, it's hard to know if the new version is a before now unheard 'take 20' of the song unearthed from the Abbey Road studios, or an elaborate rework made by a modern day producer. Still, it's worth checking out either way really: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDvzHqytwp8

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