I'm looking forward to this as well. They've had a lot of odd projects, collections and gimmicks, like '1', 'Let it Be... Naked', and 'Love', but no real remasters of the old catalogue.
Although I'm more of a casual fan - always preferred the Rolling Stones between the two of them - but Abbey Road always had a bit of sentimental value for me. I collected used vinyl records for years, as they were so much cheaper than CDs, and would play them on my parents' sound system. One day I rooted through my parents' old records and came across my mother's beaten-but-unscratched copy of Abbey Road, and listened to it the whole way through. Just me and the dog - a black lab - on a cloudy day... it was a very nice listen. Not the kind of music I was into at the time, but I enjoyed it.
Shortly thereafter, I can't remember if it was the evening or the next day, George Harrison died. It was the oddest of timing, and made me rather sad - George and John were always my favourites of the bunch, and Harrison was always a bit more subdued than Lennon. None of that political business, and more low-key, album wise. I picked up Harrison's posthumous release that followed, Brainwashed, and quite enjoyed it.
