News

The Audiophiliac chats with the project's mastering engineers to get the inside scoop on the Beatles sound.

"I bought the US Beatles Capitol Albums sets when they were remastered in 2004, and compared those discs with the 2014 remasters. Frankly, there's no comparison; the new ones sound better. They're more fleshed out, less compressed, and clearer."

Read CNET's Steve Guttenberg's review of the US albums here.

Credit: CBS Interactive/CNET

The U.S. Album 13CD collection spanning 1964’s Meet The Beatles! to 1970’s Hey Jude has been released on CD and Mastered For iTunes.

The official stores have limited edition 50th anniversary bundles - check your local store for more details.

US STORE  |  UK STORE  |  JAPAN STORE  |  BRAZIL STORE  |  YOUR LOCAL RETAILER  |  iTUNES

#thebeatles50

Back by popular demand!  There has been so much incredible interest in THE BEATLES: THE NIGHT THAT CHANGED AMERICA - A GRAMMY® SALUTE that CBS are RE-BROADCASTING the show THIS WEDNESDAY - so if you missed it - it's your chance to see Paul and Ringo perform together, supported by some of the biggest names in music today.  

THE BEATLES: THE NIGHT THAT CHANGED AMERICA - A GRAMMY® SALUTE features today's top artists covering the songs performed by the band on that momentous evening along with other Beatles songs through the years, as well as footage from that landmark Sunday evening and other archival material. In addition, various presenters will help highlight and contextualize the musical, cultural and historical impact of the group and their legendary performance on the Ed Sullivan show.

Watch the show on CBS, Wednesday, Feb 12 at 8:30 EST / 7:30 Central

http://www.cbs.com/shows/the-night-that-changed-america/

February 7th, 1964. The Beatles arrive in New York.

Paul: "There were millions of kids at the airport, which nobody had expected. We heard about it in mid-air. There were journalists on the plane, and the pilot had rang ahead and said, 'Tell the boys there's a big crowd waiting for them.' We thought, 'Wow! God, we really have made it.' "

Today marks the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' US debut. On this date in 1964, The Beatles flew together across the Atlantic for the first time, in hopes of cracking the USA - something no British band had yet managed to do. By the time the third and last of their first Beatles Ed Sullivan broadcasts aired - a little more than two weeks after their arrival - the band would be back home, having made broadcasting history and their trip as a whole a phenomenal and unprecedented success. 

RINGO:  "It's great to be here.  It's a wonderful to-do with music.  For me, that's my life.  At 13, I was ill, I was in hospital.  They gave me a little, teeny drum, and I only ever wanted to do that for the rest of my life.  And that's what's carrying on today, really, The Beatles' music is still out there and that's the thing I'm most proud of."

Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono accepted the award on behalf of The Beatles.

The Recording Academy honoured the 2014 Special Merit Awards recipients at the Special Merit Awards Ceremony & Nominees Reception on Jan. 25 in Los Angeles. This year's Lifetime Achievement Award recipients are The Beatles, Clifton Chenier, the Isley Brothers, Kraftwerk, Kris Kristofferson, Armando Manzanero, and Maud Powell; Trustees Award honorees are Rick Hall, Jim Marshall and Ennio Morricone; and Emile Berliner and Lexicon are Technical GRAMMY Award recipients.

The Beatles On Air radio plays 14 clips of songs from the brand new album "On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2"!  Just click on the tuning buttons to start the playback.

You can embed the Beatles onto your own website or blog - in this news story, you can view the radio - just click on the embed link and copy the embed code.

You can also dedicate a song to someone - just use the Twitter hashtag #beatlesdedication and it will play along the radio players everywhere!

'We made some incredible music. It’s great how well it holds up. The songs are still relevant; the kids are listening to the music today. It worked. And there were many, many magic moments, when it really worked. When you’re together, the band is together and the audience is together, it creates a magic moment. It’s a spiritual moment.' Ringo Starr

We are running a mini-serialisation of Ringo's new book "Photograph" over the next week to show some of the incredible photographs that Ringo took during his life in The Beatles.

http://RingoPhotoBook.com/

The images are a unique perspective on his life and the band that could never be captured from the outside.

This first image was taken at Abbey Road studios in 1964. Find out more information about the book go to http://RingoPhotoBook.com/

Listen to the full stream of "There's A Place" from "On Air: Live at the BBC Volume 2"

On Air: Live at the BBC Volume 2 is out now:

On CD

Vinyl 

iTunes

Watch the PREMIERE of the BRAND NEW animated video from The Beatles performing the Buddy Holly song, "Words of Love," from On Air - Live at the BBC Vol. 2!

WATCH THE PREMIERE ON VEVO

On Air - Live at the BBC Vol. 2

Amazon
iTunes

John Lennon's iconic song "Imagine" is the inspiration for helping hungry children around the world through the "Imagine There's No Hunger" campaign.  As part of John’s vision for a world free from hunger and in peace, Yoko Ono, WhyHunger, and Hard Rock International joined forces to ensure every child has the right to sustainable, nutritious food.  Throughout November and December 2013 fans can engage online via #imaginenohunger or by making a donation to receive limited edition merchandise at http://www.hardrock.com/imagine. 

Fans can also support the "Imagine" campaign and the work of WhyHunger with the purchase of a new interactive album app - hear rare and unreleased demos, intimately explore the creative collaboration behind the album and help fight world hunger and poverty. Available for download at iTunes on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

JOHN LENNON: THE BERMUDA TAPES a pioneering, interactive album app for the iPad and iPhone is available now on the App Store with all net proceeds to benefit WhyHunger’s work to realize a world free of hunger and poverty.  Integrating excerpts of Lennon's demo tapes recorded in Bermuda with innovative game play and intimate documentary storytelling, John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes is a thrilling, unprecedented experience for music and technology fans alike. 

Available for download at iTunes on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Our thoughts are with the family of Sir John Tavener, who died yesterday at his home with his family.

He was Britain’s foremost classical composer, renowned for his both profoundly religious and inspirational secular works. 

Both John Lennon and Ringo Starr took an interest in John Tavener’s music.  His first major composition, the iconoclastic and ground-breaking The Whale, was premiered at the Proms in 1969 and was recorded by Apple Records the following year, followed by the release of the extraordinary Celtic Requiem, a piece for orchestra and children’s choir, in 1971.

Andy Davis wrote: "John Tavener’s The Whale and Celtic Requiem are two of the most extraordinary records ever issued, certainly on Apple Records, and most likely on any mainstream label. A bold claim, perhaps. But listen first and then decide." 

'On Air: Live at the BBC Vol. 2' and its newly remastered predecessor, 'Live at the BBC' have hit the stores around the globe today!

'On Air' has received rave reviews from the press around the world.

The album includes 37 previously unreleased performances and 23 previously unreleased recordings of in-studio banter and conversation between the band's members and their BBC radio hosts.

"The in-studio dialogue is often as fascinating as the music." MOJO ****

On Air - Live At The BBC Volume 2 is now available for pre-order via your local official Beatles Stores or your local retailer:

On CD  
Vinyl  
iTunes 

Exclusive to THEBEATLES.COM - the first ever live stream of She Loves You from Live at the BBC Vol 2! 

Listen to the full length track at thebeatles.com/onair

This version was taped for the fifth anniversary of Saturday Club on the 7 September 1963 at the BBC Playhouse Theatre, London. The Beatles’ biggest selling single in Britain spent twelve weeks in the Top Three, including two stints at number one. Post your feedback in the comments section here or on Facebook!

PRE-ORDER:

iTunes

On CD

Vinyl

THE BEATLES ‘ON AIR - LIVE AT THE BBC VOLUME 2’ AND ITS ACCLAIMED, REMASTERED PREDECESSOR, ‘LIVE AT THE BBC,’ AVAILABLE NOW FOR GLOBAL DIGITAL PRE-ORDER EXCLUSIVELY ON ITUNES 

The new companion to The Beatles’ first BBC collection, On Air – Live at the BBC  Volume 2, is available now for digital pre-order exclusively at iTunes/thebeatles.  On Air will be released on Monday, November 11; the Mastered for iTunes LP includes a 48-page booklet.  

On Air’s 63 tracks include 37 previously unreleased performances and 23 previously unreleased recordings...

Paul McCartney's 'NEW' album is out now!

The 12 track release - 14 if you buy the Deluxe Edition - features the title track plus 'Queenie Eye' and was produced by Mark Ronson, Paul Epworth, Giles Martin and Ethan Johns.

Fans can get their copy of the album in stores or online through:

* Amazon 

* Google Play 

* iTunes 

Featured product at the official European Beatles store - custom Beatles home furnishings by Woouf! Made to the highest quality and standards in Barcelona Spain. Order from the UK store 

Featured product at the official US Beatles store: limited edition screenprints by artist SHAG.

These prints bring to life the moment when "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" explodes across 1968's kaleidoscopic masterpiece, "Yellow Submarine."

Numbered and signed by SHAG, 20" x 28" in size, and beautifully screen printed.

http://gnikn.us/15R1kWy

19 September 2013

The Beatles are on iTunes Radio! "iTunes Radio is free streaming radio with the best selection of music. It builds and brings together stations you'll love from day one. And the more you listen, the more personalised your stations become. It's radio re-imagined." You can listen now if you are in the US: iTunes

18 September 2013

Dhani Harrison’s version of his father’s song “For You Blue” is available today! 

All proceeds go to George Harrison’s Material World Foundation, which is currently focused on helping create awareness for the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation and its mission to cure spinal cord injury.  Dhani recorded the new version of “For You Blue” with fellow musicians Blake Mills, Aaron Embry, and drummer Jim Keltner. The song was originally recorded in 1969 and then released on The Beatles’ Let it Be album a year later.

Click HERE to purchase on iTunes.