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The Beatles Remastered!

3:40 PM GMT 07/04/2009

The Beatles Remastered!

THE BEATLES BACK CATALOGUE has been digitally remastered and is due for release on September 9, 2009. This brace of reissues will coincide with the launch of The Beatles: Rock Band video game.

Each album will feature the original UK artwork, expanded sleevenotes and rare photos. For a limited period, each CD will also be embedded with a brief documentary film about the making of the album. On the same date, two new Beatles box sets will also be released.

As MOJO reported in our White Album Anniversary issue, the albums were remastered at Abbey Road Studios over a four year period.

In addition to the 12 original Beatles albums and Magical Mystery Tour, Past Masters Vol. I and II (the 1988 B-side/alternate version compilations) have been collated into a single title. This is also the first time the Fab's first four LPs (Please Please Me, With The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles For Sale) will be available in stereo CD format. These 14 albums, along with a DVD collection of the documentaries, will also be available for purchase together in a box set.

The Beatles in Mono, a second collection, will gather all of the band's recordings in their original mono mixes. It is set to feature 10 of the band's albums and a further two discs in the Past Masters mould. The mono Help! and Rubber Soul reissues will also include the original 1965 stereo mixes (not been previously released on CD). All will appear in mini-vinyl CD replicas complete with original sleeves, inserts and label designs.

For more head over to www.thebeatles.com

Check out the teaser trailer for the reissues HERE.

The full list of remastered Fabs albums looks like this:

The Stereo Albums (available individually and collected in a stereo box set)

Please Please Me
With The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles For Sale
Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (also includes 1987 notes, updated, and new intro by Paul McCartney)
Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles
Yellow Submarine (also includes original US liner notes)
Abbey Road
Let It Be
Past Masters (contains new liner notes written by engineer Kevin Howlett)

The Beatles in Mono (box set only)

Please Please Me
With The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles For Sale
Help! (CD also includes original 1965 stereo mix)
Rubber Soul (CD also include original 1965 stereo mix)
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles
Mono Masters

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 3:40 PM GMT 07/04/2009

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  • Great! (this is going to be an expensive september) I just hope the new remasters keep the little original imperfections intact: the very brief drop-out of sound in the rythm guitar track on Day tripper, the unidentified voice on Chains, etc...
    Can't wait.

    Posted by David Huret at 3:46 PM GMT 08/04/2009 Report Abuse

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  • HELL YES! going to be amazing.

    Posted by scud at 5:06 PM GMT 08/04/2009 Report Abuse

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  • I hope to God that the horrible stereo positioning of the 1987 CDs have been consigned to the dustbin: i can't stand those vocals-on-one-side, backing-track-on-the-other mixes! Please centre the vocals!

    I also hope all the hard work put in by the engineers at Abbey Road over the last four years isn't ruined by the usual 'lets turn everything up & push it all the way to the front" brickwall mastering when the albums go to CD.

    And finally... would it really have been so hard for EMI to have issued each album as 2 CD sets with the mono mixes on disc 2? Those box sets will no doubt cost a bomb... (then again, The Beatles are just about the last cash-cow EMI has left, so no surprises there).

    Other than those potential gripes, i can't wait! It's about bloody time, Apple!

    Posted by Mark H at 7:24 PM GMT 08/04/2009 Report Abuse

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  • September 9, the day before my birthday! (hint, hint). Actually what I would like is vinyl versions of the mono mixes, having got all the stereo albums. Will there be vinyl pressings?

    Posted by simon F at 8:27 PM GMT 08/04/2009 Report Abuse

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  • This is great news, although there are two small sticking points. One is that they're being released on CD, which is lower resolution than the vinyl they were originally pressed on and subsequent improvements on CD, such as Super Audio CD, DVD and Blu-Ray. If it weren't for the obvious commercial drawback to doing this, they'd give us high-res now. As it is, we'll probably have to wait another 10-20 years. Also, they haven't remixed the records and the stereo version of Sgt. Pepper, for example, should be based on the mono. The mono version is really the version everyone should have because it's what the Beatles intended you to hear, but as people prefer stereo they listen to the more conservative mix by Martin.

    Posted by James de Beresford at 8:40 AM GMT 09/04/2009 Report Abuse

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  • Great news, cant wait.
    Any chance of the Hollywood Bowl on cd?
    And while we are at it where is Let It Be and Magical Mystery tour on dvd?

    Posted by Beatle ed at 11:15 AM GMT 09/04/2009 Report Abuse

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  • Hola a todos. Me llamo Gabriel Ruiz y soy de Mexico. Es una gran noticia que el catálogo de The Beatles sea remasterizado. Siempre es bienvenido un disco de The Beatles, aunque ya lo tengamos en varios formatos y varias ediciones. Gracias a The Beatles por ser la pieza fundamental de mi crecimiento. Ojalá algún día hagan lo mismo con toda la discografia de The Smiths.
    Saludos desde Mexico.

    Posted by Gabriel Ruiz Arriaga at 4:49 AM GMT 12/04/2009 Report Abuse

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  • RE: David Huret

    Yes but the dropout in 'Day Tripper' was fixed for the '1' album.

    Posted by Ann Dee at 12:48 PM GMT 12/04/2009 Report Abuse

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  • Looking for to these, but were are the missing nine tracks from Past Masters 1?

    1. Long Tall Sally
    2. I Call Your Name
    3. Slow Down
    4. Matchbox
    5. I Feel Fine
    6. She's a Woman
    7. Bad Boy
    8. Yes It Is
    9. I'm Down

    Is it something to do with the date?

    Posted by Bernie Meyer at 6:16 AM GMT 13/04/2009 Report Abuse

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  • Looking forward to these, but were are the nine missing tracks from Past Masters 1?

    1. Long Tall Sally
    2. I Call Your Name
    3. Slow Down
    4. Matchbox
    5. I Feel Fine
    6. She's a Woman
    7. Bad Boy
    8. Yes It Is
    9. I'm Down

    Is it a black hole that has something to do with the date?

    Posted by Bernie Meyer at 6:18 AM GMT 13/04/2009 Report Abuse

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  • RE: James de Beresford
    These releases are being marketed as 'Re-mastered' - hardly 4 weeks work let alone 4 years. I suspect they have actually been remixed - microphone pops, tape hiss, talking etc have apparently been removed and playing errors doctored by flying in notes sampled elsewhwere on the song.I have no problem with this. The technology would have been used if it had been available. 'Love' and 'Let it Be...naked' sound stunning.

    Posted by Johnnyozoned at 8:35 PM GMT 17/04/2009 Report Abuse

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