09-09-09
Beatles fans, mark that date.
Not only is it the launch date of "The Beatles: Rock Band," a video game boomer Beatles fan might even want to learn to play, but now we learn that the entire digitally remastered catalog is arriving on CD.
Yes, money can't buy you love, but there is so much Beatles stuff to buy and it never stops.
Help!
The collection consists of all 12 Beatles albums in stereo, with track listings and artwork as originally released in the UK, and "Magical Mystery Tour."
The CDs are packaged with replicated original UK album art, including expanded booklets containing original and newly written liner notes and rare photos. For a limited period, each CD will also be embedded with a brief documentary film about the album. This will mark the first time that the first four Beatles albums will be available in stereo in their entirety on compact disc.
Along with the albums, two new Beatles boxed CD collections will also be released:
-- "Past Masters Vol. I and II," including singles, out-takes, live versions and B-sides which weren't on the albums.
-- "The Beatles in Mono," the original monaural versions of 10 albums plus two further discs of mono masters of early material.
According to the release from EMI/Apple, "The albums have been re-mastered by a dedicated team of engineers at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London over a four-year period utilizing state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. The result of this painstaking process is the highest fidelity the catalogue has seen since its original release."
Don't look for any of this on iTunes: "Discussions regarding the digital distribution of the catalogue will continue. There is no further information available at this time."
Posted
Apr 07 2009, 04:22 PM
by
Scott Mervis