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Albums produced by George Martin

  • The Capitol Albums, Volume 1Some Beatles songs heard in stereo in America were mono recordings spread across two channels.
  • The Capitol Albums, Volume 2Some early copies of the Beatles box set The Capitol Albums, Volume 2 had the wrong mono mixes.
  • Revolver: Special EditionThe Revolver remix became possible thanks to Peter Jackson's Get Back team.
  • The Beatles: 50th Anniversary EditionA preview of the White Album's anniversary edition appeared early on Spotify and iTunes.
  • Let It Be: Special EditionGlyn Johns' 1969 mix of the Beatles' Get Back sessions finally got an official release in 2021.
  • Rock 'n' Roll Music (album)A Beatles compilation reached number 2 in 1976, six years after the band broke up.
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: 50th Anniversary EditionA critic panned Sgt. Pepper in 1967 while listening through a broken speaker.
  • Yellow Submarine SongtrackYellow Submarine Songtrack is a Beatles album from 1999, released to go with a new run of the band's animated film Yellow Submarine, which first appeared in 1968. It is an odd one among the group's reissues. Almost nothing on it sounds…
  • Magical Mystery TourThe Beatles had six songs and no format that fit them. So they invented Britain's first double EP in 1967.
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandThe Beatles played Sgt. Pepper from a Chelsea window at six in the morning. Neighbors listened without complaint.
  • Give My Regards to Broad StreetPaul McCartney's 1984 album Give My Regards to Broad Street hit number 1 in the UK but peaked at 21 in the US.
  • Revolver (Beatles album)The Beatles vetoed a 1966 film and used the free months to make Revolver. They recorded for over 220 hours.
  • Abbey Road: 50th Anniversary EditionWho could remix a Beatles album made fifty years earlier? For Abbey Road, the answer was George Martin's son Giles.
  • Live at the BBC (Beatles album)Live at the BBC, the Beatles album released in 1994, gathers 56 songs and 13 tracks of spoken dialogue, all taken from radio shows of the early 1960s. For fans it ended a long drought. The last official Beatles release of unissued…
  • The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings)Abbey Road Studios once wiped Beatles master tapes to reuse them. That is why "Love Me Do" has no true stereo mix.
  • The Beatles in MonoThe Beatles in Mono box set sold out almost everywhere before its September 9, 2009 release.
  • Rubber SoulThe Beatles named their album Rubber Soul after an overheard jab at Mick Jagger's singing.
  • Abbey RoadAbbey Road came out after John Lennon had already told the Beatles he wanted a divorce.
  • Past MastersIn Britain, Beatles singles were traditionally kept off albums, so hit songs went missing.
  • The Beatles (album)Ringo Starr walked out of a Beatles recording session on the 22nd of August 1968. He felt sidelined.
  • 1967–1970The Beatles' Blue Album was a reply to a bootleg sold on television. Apple and EMI made it in 1973.
  • Help!The Beatles tried to spell HELP in semaphore on an album cover, but the letters looked wrong.
  • Tug of War (Paul McCartney album)Paul McCartney stopped recording the morning he heard John Lennon had been shot. He was making Tug of War.
  • A Hard Day's Night (album)The Beatles' album A Hard Day's Night took its title from an accidental remark by Ringo Starr.
  • Beatles for SaleMeeting Bob Dylan in 1964 pushed John Lennon toward more serious songs.
  • The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963Without a release in December 2013, 59 unreleased Beatles recordings from 1963 would have entered the public domain.
  • Love (Beatles album)George Harrison never heard the Beatles album Love, though the idea came from him. He died in 2001.
  • The Beatles at the Hollywood BowlThe Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl reached number two on the American Billboard chart in 1977, even though its recordings were 12 and 13 years old. It was the first live album the band ever issued with official approval. That is strange for…
  • 1962–1966The 1973 Beatles Red Album left out "Twist and Shout" and every George Harrison song.
  • Introducing... The BeatlesA gambling scandal nearly kept the first American Beatles album off shelves.
  • Meet the Beatles!Capitol Records repeatedly refused to release the Beatles in America. EMI finally stepped in during November 1963.
  • Yellow Submarine (album)Side 2 of the Yellow Submarine album has no Beatles songs at all. A 41-piece orchestra plays George Martin's film score.
  • Yesterday and TodayCapitol recalled the Beatles' Yesterday and Today over a cover of butcher smocks and raw meat.
  • 1 (Beatles album)A Beatles hits album sold over 31 million copies, 30 years after the band split. It was called 1.
  • Please Please MeJohn Lennon sang "Twist and Shout" in one take with a bad cold. He said it nearly killed him.
  • With the BeatlesEMI objected to the cover of With the Beatles because the band did not smile. George Martin pushed it through anyway.

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