„Basically, we released everything in mono – up to Aftermath – because we always liked the mono sound on the original R&B records. You don’t have that polarity you get with stereo, that spreads out the sound. With stereo you lose a lot of the guts of the sound. We liked the RAWNESS of mono back then. On 2-track you couldn’t do much anyways. For one thing, it couldn’t be released in stereo. The band was on one track, the vocals on the other, and you couldn’t mix stereo on 2-track. In any case, in ’64 stereo was just coming into use, it wasn’t in people’s homes until ’66. Also, you couldn’t mix a single other than mono at that time because if it was mixed in stereo and you played it on a mono machine the sound was not balanced.“
– Bill Wyman
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