Pete_LeGrant April 8, 2009 Entertainment, Industry, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 4 views Comments Print This Post  Email This Post

The Beatles: Rock Band gets released this fall. The entire collection of their music has been remastered and will be released at the same time as the game, on which further details can be found here.

Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music are delighted to announce the release of
the original Beatles catalogue, which has been digitally re-mastered
for the first time, for worldwide CD release on Wednesday, September 9,
2009 (9-9-09), the same date as the release of the widely anticipated The Beatles: Rock Band video game.
Each of the CDs is 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. On the same
date, two new Beatles boxed CD collections will also be released.

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 utilising 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.

The
collection comprises all 12 Beatles albums in stereo, with track
listings and artwork as originally released in the UK, and ‘Magical
Mystery Tour,’ which became part of The Beatles core catalogue when
the CDs were first released in 1987. In addition, the collections ‘Past
Masters Vol. I and II’ are now combined as one title, for a total of 14
titles over 16 discs. This will mark the first time that the first four
Beatles albums will be available in stereo in their entirety on compact
disc. These 14 albums, along with a DVD collection of the
documentaries, will also be available for purchase together in a stereo
boxed set.

Within each CDs new packaging, booklets include
detailed historical notes along with informative recording notes. With
the exception of the ‘Past Masters’ set, newly produced
mini-documentaries on the making of each album, directed by Bob
Smeaton, are included as QuickTime files on each album. The
documentaries contain archival footage, rare photographs and
never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles, offering a unique and
very personal insight into the studio atmosphere.

A second boxed
set has been created with the collector in mind. ‘The Beatles in Mono’
gathers together, in one place, all of the Beatles recordings that were
mixed for a mono release. It will contain 10 of the albums with their
original mono mixes, plus two further discs of mono masters (covering
similar ground to the stereo tracks on ‘Past Masters’). As an added
bonus, the mono Help! and Rubber Souldiscs also include the
original 1965 stereo mixes, which have not been previously released on
CD. These albums will be packaged in mini-vinyl CD replicas of the
original sleeves with all original inserts and label designs retained.

Discussions
regarding the digital distribution of the catalogue will continue.
There is no further information available at this time.

http://www.thebeatles.com