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The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed
acts in the history of popular music. From 1962 until their breakup in 1970, the group consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals),
Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock
and roll, the group later worked in many genres ranging from folk rock to psychedelic pop, often incorporating classical and other elements
in innovative ways.
The nature of their enormous popularity, which first emerged as the "Beatlemania" fad, transformed as their songwriting
grew in sophistication. The group came to be perceived as the embodiment of progressive ideals, seeing their influence extend into the social
and cultural revolutions of the 1960s.
During their studio years, The Beatles produced what critics consider some of their finest material including the album Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), widely regarded as a masterpiece. Nearly four decades after their breakup, The Beatles' music continues
to be popular. The Beatles have had more number one albums on the UK charts, and held down the top spot longer, than any other musical
act. According to RIAA certifications, they have sold more albums in the US than any other artist. In 2008, Billboard magazine released
a list of the all-time top-selling Hot 100 artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with The Beatles at number
one. They have been honoured with 7 Grammy Awards, and they have received 15 Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters,
Composers and Authors. The Beatles were collectively included in Time magazine's compilation of the 20th century's 100 most important and influential people.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band CD
by The Beatles
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This reissue of SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND has been digitally re-mastered. It comes packaged with replicated original U.K. album art,
an expanded booklet containing original and newly written liner notes, and rare photos. Limited quantities of the CD are embedded with a brief
documentary film about the album.
One of the most famous and influential albums ever recorded, SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND had a huge impact on the music world,
signaling the beginning of a new era of sophistication and maturity in rock. The musical experimentation was dynamic and fresh, several
tracks were edited to create seamless transitions, and even the visual design was more elaborate than anything previously attempted.
Producer George Martin and The Beatles searched for new sounds and studio effects. They added crowd sounds and animal cries from
sound-effects recordings, sped up Paul McCartney's vocals in "When I'm Sixty-Four" (to make him sound younger), and sustained a
single piano chord for 40 seconds to end "A Day In The Life." The orchestrations, scored by Martin, were hailed by critics as
bridging the gap between pop and classical music, and many people who had never bought a rock record bought SGT. PEPPER'S.
Includes a 28-page booklet with rare photos, notes on the recording sessions and lyrics.
Abbey Road CD
by The Beatles
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This reissue of ABBEY ROAD has been digitally re-mastered. It comes packaged with replicated ...
original U.K. album art, an expanded booklet containing original and newly written liner notes,
and rare photos. Limited quantities of the CD are embedded with a brief documentary film about the album.
After the laborious disorganization and infighting that characterized early 1969's LET IT BE sessions
(as famously captured on film), the fractious four were willing to let George Martin take the reins and
to work with him as a cohesive unit for the much more succinct production of their (and the decade's)
swan song, ABBEY ROAD. The superb performances make the album an artistic high point for all members of
the group. Paul McCartney inspired the suite of songs that begins with "You Never Give Me Your Money."
Often thought of as two long medleys, the songs that fill most of the second half of ABBEY ROAD segue
seamlessly into one another, but are programmed as separate CD tracks. George Harrison had his first
A-side on a Beatles' single ("Something"); John Lennon contributed a pair of heavy rockers
("Come Together" and "I Want You"); and Ringo Starr's "Octopus's Garden" was a favorite with children.
ABBEY ROAD, recorded in the summer of 1969, was the last album recorded by the Beatles (LET IT BE was released in 1970, but recorded in early '69).
Let It Be CD
by The Beatles
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This reissue of LET IT BE has been digitally re-mastered. It comes packaged with replicated original U.K. album art,
an expanded booklet containing original and newly written liner notes, and rare photos. Limited quantities of the CD
are embedded with a brief documentary film about the album.
Generally regarded as the Beatles' last album, LET IT BE was actually recorded in 1969, before the recording and
release of ABBEY ROAD. LET IT BE was greeted with mixed reviews when it came out in 1970, and is still a
controversial disc in the band's catalogue--many fans reject it, while others defend it fiercely. Notable
for its difference from anything else the Beatles recorded, LET IT BE has a raw, ragged, muscular sound that
recalls the band's very earliest rock roots. The songs were mostly recorded live (save Phil Spector's overdubs
on "The Long and Winding Road," "Across the Universe," and "I Me Mine"), and the result is a world away from
the meticulous, high-sheen sophistication of the group's George Martin-produced releases.
Revolver CD
by The Beatles
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Arguably the first psychedelic rock album, REVOLVER was praised for its musical experimentation--the Indian sounds of
"Love You To," the Motown-inspired "Got To Get You Into My Life," the backwards guitar in "I'm Only Sleeping."
"Tomorrow Never Knows" was the most radical departure from previous Beatles' recordings for its skeletal bass/drums propulsion enhanced only with tape loops (contributed by all four Beatles and added in the mix-down process), more backwards guitar, and an eerie John Lennon vocal.
Still, the Beatles' experimentation grew out of their songwriting, which had matured beyond formula pop. "Tomorrow Never Knows" was inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Harrison's "Taxman" was a bitter diatribe, and McCartney's "Eleanor Rigby" was a bleak portrait of loneliness. Balanced with upbeat songs like "Good Day Sunshine" and "Yellow Submarine," REVOLVER proved The Beatles were not mere pop stars, but musical artists in search of new sounds and ideas.
This reissue of REVOLVER has been digitally re-mastered. It comes packaged with replicated original
U.K. album art, an expanded booklet containing original and newly written liner notes, and rare photos.
Limited quantities of the CD are embedded with a brief documentary film about the album.
Live At The BBC CD
by The Beatles
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LIVE AT THE BBC is a 2-CD set containing 69 live tracks, all of which are previously unreleased. Also included is a 48-page
booklet with track-by-track annotations and essays by Derek Taylor and Kevin Howlett.
Recorded live between 1962 ...
Although the guitars are often electric, LIVE AT THE BBC is, essentially, the Beatles Unplugged--yanked out of the
recording studio, gathered around a few microphones and encouraged to show off their raw craft, naked voices and
rock'n'roll roots. MTV didn't exist in the early '60s, but the BBC did, and between March 1962 and June 1965
(a period that spans their first four albums and takes them from the simplicity of "Love Me Do" to the complexities
of "Ticket To Ride") the Beatles performed 52 times on England's national radio network. Although they had honed
their craft in British and German rock clubs, the Beatles were mostly known as a studio band, and the radio shows
served as a sort of behind-the-curtains glimpse of the studio wizards.
Most of these performances are covers of early rock, pop and country songs, and the scope of them is wider and
deeper than the covers the Beatles put on their albums. There are obvious influences--Chuck Berry, Elvis and
Little Richard rockers, and traditional pop ballads--along with lesser-known pop footholds that hint at how/where
the Beatles bridged the gap between rock's teen-age years and its adulthood. They covered soul singer Arthur
Alexander only once on their original records ("Anna"), but twice here, and the combination of R&B drive and
complex pop changes that fuels both "Soldier Of Love" and "A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues" gives away one of the
primary sources of Beatles style. John Lennon's vocal on "I Just Don't Understand," an Ann-Margret pop song,
foreshadows the downbeat folk-rock with which the Beatles made their mark in the mid-'60s.
A baker's dozen of Lennon/McCartney originals are spread through the set, including one, a jangly folk-rocker
titled "I'll Be On My Way," that they never recorded. The John-Paul-George harmonies are in full bloom, as
is the Beatlesque sense of humor. There's one terribly obvious overdub, but the rest of LIVE AT THE BBC sounds
like rock'n'roll's greatest living-room sessions.
Full Descriptionand 1965. Includes liner notes by Derek Taylor & Kevin Howlett.
LIVE AT THE BBC was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Historical Album.
Rubber Soul CD
by The Beatles
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This reissue of RUBBER SOUL has been digitally re-mastered. It comes packaged with replicated original U.K. album art, an expanded
booklet containing original and newly written liner notes, and rare photos. Limited quantities of the CD are embedded
with a brief documentary film about the album.
Though some might argue that the Beatles' unprecedented evolution from British Invasion pin-ups to pop music visionaries began with BEATLES FOR SALE, RUBBER SOUL is without a doubt the first album to definitively put the Fab Four in the running for Greatest Band Ever. Virtually every aspect of the Liverpool quartet's incredibly diverse sound is in evidence here: the dark, irony-filled Dylanism ("Norwegian Wood," "Nowhere Man"), pop perfection ("In My Life"), the passion for classic tin pan alley balladry ("Girl," "Michelle"), and the love of good 'ol rock & roll music ("Drive My Car"). Peppered with nasty fuzz bass, exotic sitar, cartoonishly sped-up piano that sounds like harpsichord, and elements of country, Motown, and classical music, the album reveals a creative scope and willingness to experiment so revolutionary it can now only be termed "Beatlesque." Though the Fabs don't go as far out on a limb here as on the more overtly experimental REVOLVER, RUBBER SOUL is perhaps the Beatles' most finely crafted and accessible work, and consequently many fans' and critics' favorite.
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