The Red album contained an additional 12 songs across two CDs or three vinyl discs: ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, ‘Twist And Shout’, ‘This Boy’, ‘Roll Over Beethoven’, ‘You Really Got A Hold On Me’, ‘You Can’t Do That’, ‘If I Needed Someone’, ‘Taxman’, ‘Got To Get You Into My Life’, ‘I’m Only Sleeping’, ‘Here, There And Everywhere’, and ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’. The albums were expanded and remixed in stereo and Dolby Atmos. The 1962-1966 compilation and its 1967-1970 counterpart were reissued on 10 November 2023. The reissues include expanded booklets with new essays by Bill Flanagan, and extra photographs of The Beatles. Remastered versions of the Red and Blue albums were reissued on 18 October 2010 (19 October in North America) as two-CD sets. In the United Kingdom the Red Album was issued on 19 April 1973, and reached number three. The Blue Album (1967-1970) did reach number one on Billboard, however. It topped the Cashbox chart, but peaked at number three on the Billboard chart. The Beatles 1962-1966 was released in the United States on 2 April 1973. In the US five songs were in mono: ‘Love Me Do’, ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’, ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, ‘I Feel Fine’, and ‘Ticket To Ride’. In the UK, all songs on the Red Album were in stereo, with the exception of ‘Love Me Do’. The Capitol Records version tended to use mixes and performances originally heard on The Beatles’ US albums, such as the version of ‘Help!’ featuring a James Bond-style introduction. International variationsĭifferent pressings in the United States and United Kingdom led to variations in the mixes and performances used. The Red and Blue albums were reissued in 1993 on coloured vinyl, with an extra insert of photographs. Checked the remix after he’d done it, it was as good as you could get out of whatever mono recording we did then. So I was involved in that respect, in that package making sure that the cover was what I wanted and that the sound was done by George Martin. I made sure George Martin was there and I made sure they put that picture which I got Linda to take of the same pose as their very first album over the Abbey Road… No what is it that… EMI office in some other place, some square? Manchester Square. So on that last package where they had Beatles 60… different periods – that one. I didn’t know that until it was too late. I hadn’t even listened to them, because I just presumed they’d take the tape as we made it and make a master and put it out again, but they didn’t, they’d been screwing around with a few of the early ones. I didn’t want some strange guy, you know, making dubbed versions of it and putting it out, because of the versions that were going out the reissues were pretty poor. And I asked Capitol/EMI, or EMI/Capitol whichever, please ask George Martin would he take care of this, so at least he knows what to do. I didn’t want lousy versions going out, I wanted them to be as was.
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