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Ladies and Gentlemen, The Beatles! Beatlemania is back with the long-anticipated release of The Beatles: Rock Band video game and remastered CDs. The Beatles' studio albums have been remastered at Abbey Road Studios in London using state-of-the-art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment. The four-year-long painstaking process has resulted in the highest fidelity of the Beatles' recordings since their original releases. Each CD package includes a booklet with richly detailed historical and recording notes. For a limited time, each CD will also be accompanied by a short documentary film about the album. These films contain archival footage, rare photographs and never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles. |
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Remastered CDs |
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Abbey Road (remastered) “Though all four contribute to the first side's writing, John Lennon's hard rocking, ‘Come Together’ and ‘I Want You (She's So Heavy)’ make the strongest impression. A series of song fragments edited together in suite form dominates side two; its portentous, touching, official close (‘Golden Slumbers’/’Carry That Weight’/’The End’) is nicely undercut, in typical Beatles fashion, by Paul McCartney's cheeky ‘Her Majesty,’ which follows.” ~Rickey Wright, Amazon.com
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The White Album (remastered) Released in 1968, The White Album is regarded as one of the greatest albums in rock history and was ranked 10th on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.” The songs were produced during a productive period following the group's visit to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India—a period which also saw the emergence of conflict that began to drive the group apart.
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Revolver (remastered) “Revolver wouldn't remain the Beatles' most ambitious LP for long, but many fans—including this one—remember it as their best. An object lesson in fitting great songwriting into experimental production and genre play, this is also a record whose influence extends far beyond mere they-was-the-greatest cheerleading. … A must.” ~Rickey Wright, Amazon.com
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Rubber Soul (remastered) “So many classics: ‘Drive My Car’ and ‘Nowhere Man’ (both omitted from the U.S. edition) merge the early combustible Beatifics to a burgeoning studio consciousness; ‘The Word’ can be read as a pre-psych warning shot; the sitar-laden ‘Norwegian Wood’ and the evocative ‘Girl’ (the latter written on the last night of the sessions) stand as turning points in John Lennon's oeuvre. George finally emerges too, with the McGuinn-ish ‘If I Needed Someone.’" ~Don Harrison, Amazon.com
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Let it Be (remastered) “Sloppy in conception, and even sometimes in the playing, Let It Be often gets a bad rap. Unfairly, as it's often as charming, well written, and (oh yeah) rocking as the Beatles' ‘better’ albums; it's also more outright fun than Abbey Road, the masterpiece it followed into the stores. With Lennon and McCartney working together on the perfect ‘I've Got a Feeling,’ ‘Two of Us,’ and ‘Dig a Pony,’ it's hard to believe these guys were about to implode.” ~Rickey Wright, Amazon.com
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (remastered) “From Lennon's evocative word/sound pictures (the trippy ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,’ the carnival-like ‘Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite’) and McCartney's music hall-styled ‘When I'm 64,’ to Harrison's Eastern-leaning ‘Within You Without You,’ and the avant-garde mini-suite, ‘A Day in the Life,’ Sgt. Pepper was a milestone for both '60s music and popular culture.” ~Billy Altman
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Magical Mystery Tour (remastered) “The album feels even more like a collection of singles (instead of an actual movie soundtrack) than Help! or A Hard Day's Night, but maybe that's because every song sounds like it could have been a hit single—with the natural exception of the goofy/weird instrumental ‘Flying.’ Even George's ‘Blue Jay Way’ paints a vivid sound-portrait in fascinating detail." ~Jim Emerson, Amazon.com
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Past Masters (remastered) “Although they were probably the band that most transformed rock from a singles medium to an album-oriented form, the Beatles also released many singles and EP tracks that never made it onto albums. … Past Masters, Volume 1 compiles 18 of those singles, including some of their best-known tracks, running from 'Love Me Do,' 'She Love You,' 'I Want to Hold Your Hand,' and 'This Boy' to 'I Feel Fine' and Paul's homage to Little Richard, 'I'm Down.' Essential stuff.” ~Bill Holdship
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A Hard Day's Night (remastered) “Both the music and the film are still as crisp and lively as they were in 1964. Of course, only the first seven songs are actually in the movie (and they are the strongest of the bunch, from the rousing rock & roll of the title track and the hit single ‘Can't Buy Me Love,’ to the beautiful ballads ‘If I Fell’ and ‘And I Love Her’). But nobody's going to complain about having songs like ‘I'll Cry Instead’ and ‘Things We Said Today’ in the second half of the record; they sure don't feel like leftovers." ~Jim Emerson, Amazon.com
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Help! (remastered) “Like A Hard Day's Night, only the first ‘side’ of this album actually contains songs from the movie—the biggest hits being the eponymous cry for assistance and ‘Ticket to Ride.’ But part 2 has a few nice tunes as well, like ‘It's Only Love,’ ‘I've Just Seen a Face,’ and a little ditty called ‘Yesterday.’ And I always love it when they do an all-out screamer like ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzy,’ which sounds like John's raucous answer to Paul's ‘Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey’ vocal on Beatles for Sale.” ~Jim Emerson, Amazon.com
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Please Please Me (remastered) “Their first-ever album, raw and rough and still very rock & roll. Lennon and McCartney begin to flex their writing muscles and had already scored two UK hits when this appeared, but they still relied heavily on the cover material to see them through.” ~Chris Nickson, Amazon.com
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With the Beatles (remastered) “They still had plenty of covers to fill out the running time, but the Lennon-McCartney writing team was gathering steam and beginning to knock out pop classics as if they were pulling them out of thin air. ‘All My Loving’ and ‘I Wanna Be your Man’ come from this record, issued hurriedly to capitalize on English Beatlemania.” ~Chris Nickson, Amazon.com
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Yellow Submarine (remastered) “The most dashed-off of the Beatles' records, Yellow Submarine doesn't have much to it: the goofy title track and ‘All You Need Is Love’ are reprised from earlier discs, George Martin's trifle of a score to the animated Submarine feature takes up the second half, and that leaves just four relatively insubstantial new tracks. The Beatles' throwaways are anyone else's classics, though.” ~Douglas Wolk, Amazon.com
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Beatles for Sale (remastered) “Banged out in a hurry for the 1964 Christmas market, Beatles for Sale sometimes sounds it, loaded with ill-conceived covers and some of John Lennon's most self-loathing lyrics. On the other hand, the people doing the banging-out were the Beatles, whose instincts for what worked musically were so strong that they could basically do no wrong.” ~Douglas Wolk, Amazon.com
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The Beatles: Rock Band Game |
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The Beatles: Rock Band, Software Only The world's leading music game meets the greatest band in history. The Beatles: Rock Band allows fans to pick up the guitar, bass, mic or drums and experience The Beatles extraordinary catalogue of music—including songs such as “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “Day Tripper,” “Back in the U.S.S.R.,” “I Am The Walrus” and “Here Comes The Sun”—through game play that takes players on a journey through the legacy and evolution of the band's legendary career. Additional songs will be available for download through The Beatles: Rock Band music store. Software is compatible with Rock Band, Guitar Hero and most other instrument controllers, as well as third-party microphones including SingStar and Lips. “As much a well-crafted lesson in music history as it is a video game.” ~USA Today
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The Beatles: Rock Band Special Value Edition Includes a Rock Band Guitar, Rock Band Drum Kit, Microphone, USB Hub, Guitar Strap and The Beatles: Rock Band software.
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The Beatles: Rock Band Limited Edition Premium Bundle Includes exclusive Höfner bass controller, The Beatles-branded Rock Band drums, microphone and microphone stand and additional special game content.
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