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Albums arranged by George Martin

  • The Capitol Albums, Volume 1The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 arrived in record shops across the United States on the 16th of November 2004, forty years after the music inside it first swept…
  • The Capitol Albums, Volume 2The Capitol Albums, Volume 2 hides a small surprise inside one of its songs. The stereo mix of "I'm Looking Through You" opens with a false start never heard…
  • Rock 'n' Roll Music (album)Rock 'n' Roll Music, the 1976 Beatles compilation, arrived during a summer when the band had been broken up for six years yet still managed to outperform…
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandSgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band arrived on the 26th of May 1967, and within days it was playing from open windows across London at six in the morning…
  • Revolver (Beatles album)Revolver, the Beatles’ seventh studio album, arrived on the 5th of August 1966 with a record cover unlike anything pop music had seen: a tangle of hair…
  • Live at the BBC (Beatles album)The first Beatles appearance on BBC radio occurred on the 7th of March 1962. This session took place during a show called Teenager's Turn, Here We Go.
  • The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings)On the 9th of September 2009, a date chosen partly because of John Lennon's lifelong fascination with the number nine, a box set arrived in record stores…
  • The Beatles in MonoThe Beatles in Mono arrived in record shops on the 9th of September 2009, and it sold out almost everywhere before listeners could get their hands on it.
  • Abbey RoadAbbey Road, the eleventh studio album by the Beatles, ends with a line that Frank Sinatra called the greatest love song ever written: not a Lennon-McCartney…
  • The Beatles (album)The Beatles, released on the 22nd of November 1968, arrived in a plain white sleeve with no artwork, no colour, no decoration beyond the band's name pressed…
  • 1967–1970On the 31st of December 1973, 1967-1970 had already sold 1,294,896 copies in the United States alone. Known to its listeners as the Blue Album, it was a…
  • Help!The Beatles appeared in their first feature film, A Hard Day's Night, during 1964. Reviews were near universal in their acclaim and elevated the band's…
  • Love (Beatles album)George Harrison died in November 2001, but his vision for the Beatles' music lived on through a friendship with Guy Laliberté.
  • The Beatles at the Hollywood BowlCapitol Records considered recording the Beatles' February 1964 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York, but it could not get the necessary approval from the…
  • 1962–1966The 1962-1966 compilation, known to its buyers as the Red Album, appeared in 1973 alongside its counterpart 1967-1970. Together they were Apple Records'…
  • Let It Be (album)Let It Be, the twelfth and final studio album by the Beatles, arrived in record shops on the 8th of May 1970, nearly a month after the world had already…
  • Yellow Submarine (album)Yellow Submarine arrived in record stores in January 1969 with a peculiar distinction: the Beatles themselves did not consider it a significant release.
  • 1 (Beatles album)1, the Beatles' greatest hits album released on the 13th of November 2000, arrived exactly thirty years after the band had broken apart.
  • Please Please MeIn May 1962, the Beatles signed a recording contract with EMI's Parlophone label. George Martin ran that label and initially doubted their songwriting…
  • With the BeatlesThe Beatles returned to London's EMI Studios on the 18th of July 1963, just four months after their debut album had been released.