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The Beatles compilation albums

  • 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.
  • On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2On BBC radio, Paul launched the program Top Gear as though christening a ship. It is preserved on a 2013 Beatles album.
  • 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…
  • 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.
  • Past MastersIn Britain, Beatles singles were traditionally kept off albums, so hit songs went missing.
  • 1967–1970The Beatles' Blue Album was a reply to a bootleg sold on television. Apple and EMI made it in 1973.
  • The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963Without a release in December 2013, 59 unreleased Beatles recordings from 1963 would have entered the public domain.
  • 1962–1966The 1973 Beatles Red Album left out "Twist and Shout" and every George Harrison song.
  • 1 (Beatles album)A Beatles hits album sold over 31 million copies, 30 years after the band split. It was called 1.

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