Track Listing
1. Strawberry Fields Forever
2. Penny Lane
3. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4. With A Little Help From My Friends
5. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
6. Day In The Life
7. All You Need Is Love
8. I Am The Walrus
9. Hello Goodbye
10. Fool On The Hill
11. Magical Mystery Tour
12. Lady Madonna
13. Hey Jude
14. Revolution
1. Back In The USSR
2. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
3. Ob La Di Ob La Da
4. Get Back
5. Don't Let Me Down
6. Ballad Of John And Yoko
7. Old Brown Shoe
8. Here Comes The Sun
9. Come Together
10. Something
11. Octopus's Garden
12. Let It Be
13. Across The Universe
14. Long And Winding Road
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 2 | | Producer: | George Martin, Phil Spector | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
The Beatles: John Lennon, George Harrison (vocals, guitar); Paul McCartney (vocals, piano, bass); Ringo Starr (vocals, drums). Digitally remastered by Mike Jarratt (1987-88, Abbey Road Studios, London, England). The 1967-1970 (BLUE ALBUM) includes a booklet with liner notes, lyrics and photographs. The Beatles' impact on popular music is inestimable. They changed the face of rock & roll, introducing new concepts and techniques again and again throughout their career, influencing both their contemporaries and the next several generations of rock & roll. In the early '60s, when the golden age of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis had given way to prefabricated teen idols and bland, diluted versions of real rock & roll and R&B, the Beatles' brash, effervescent blend of '50s vintage sounds and bold, electric pop saved the world.Not content with reviving rock & roll almost single-handedly, the Beatles continued to innovate. Borrowing a bit from John Lennon's hero Bob Dylan, they pioneered the progression from generic love songs to more personalized, introspective subject matter. Let loose in the studio, they were among the first in the pop world to use backwards tapes, feedback and exotic instrumentation (George Harrison's well-documented love affair with Indian music inspired a thousand sitar-infested pop tunes). Lennon & McCartney (and occasionally Harrison) were phenomenally gifted tunesmiths who merged a pre-rock harmonic vocabulary with R&B influences and a visionary streak to create a timeless body of work.
Editorial Reviews
(10) - Classic.
NME (09/18/1993)
...[a] timeless wonder....
Melody Maker (10/09/1993)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...Musically, joy certainly is unconfined....[THE RED and BLUE ALBUMS] vividly trace the story of [the Beatles'] development...
Q (10/01/1993)
Included in Q's Best Best Of... Albums Of All Time
Q (10/01/2000)
Included in Q's Best Best Of... Albums Of All TimeQ (10/93, p.118) - 4 Stars - Excellent - ...Musically, joy certainly is unconfined....[THE RED and BLUE ALBUMS] vividly trace the story of [the Beatles'] development... NME (9/18/93, p.35) - (10) - Classic.Melody Maker (10/9/93, p.41) - ...[a] timeless wonder....
Q (10/01/2000)
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