Please Please Me is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Produced by George Martin,it was released in the UK on EMI's Parlophone label on 22 March 1963. The album is 14 songs in length,and contains a mixture of cover songs and original material written by the partnership of band members John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Magical Mystery Tour is a record by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a double EP in the United Kingdom and an LP in the United States. It includes the soundtrack to the 1967 television film of the same name. The EP was issued in the UK on 8 December 1967 on the Parlophone label,while the Capitol Records LP release in the US and Canada occurred on 27 November and features an additional five songs that were originally released as singles that year. In 1976,Parlophone released the eleven-track LP in the UK.
Worldwide,the British rock band the Beatles released 12 studio albums,5 live albums,51 compilation albums,36 extended plays (EPs),63 singles,17 box sets,22 video albums and 53 music videos. In their native United Kingdom,during their active existence as a band,they released 12 studio albums,1 compilation album,13 EPs,and 22 singles. The early albums and singles released from 1962 to March 1968 were originally on Parlophone,and their albums and singles from August 1968 to 1970 were on their subsidiary label Apple. Their output also includes vault items,remixed mash-ups and anniversary box-sets.
This is the discography of Apple Records,a record label formed by the Beatles in 1968. During its early years,the label enjoyed a fair degree of commercial success,most notably with Mary Hopkin and Badfinger,as well as discovering acts such as James Taylor and Billy Preston who would go on to greater success with other labels. However,by the mid-1970s,Apple had become little more than an outlet for the Beatles' solo recordings. After EMI's contract with the Beatles ended in 1976,the Apple label was finally wound up. The label was reactivated in the 1990s with many of the original Apple albums being reissued on compact disc,and the company now oversees new Beatles releases such as the Anthology and 1 albums as well as the 2009 Beatles remastering programme. In 2010,Apple set about remastering and reissuing its back catalogue for a second time.
Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction is sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position. This contrasts with stereophonic sound or stereo,which uses two separate audio channels to reproduce sound from two microphones on the right and left side,which is reproduced with two separate loudspeakers to give a sense of the direction of sound sources. In mono,only one loudspeaker is necessary,but,when played through multiple loudspeakers or headphones,identical signals are fed to each speaker,resulting in the perception of one-channel sound "imaging" in one sonic space between the speakers. Monaural recordings,like stereo ones,typically use multiple microphones fed into multiple channels on a recording console,but each channel is "panned" to the center. In the final stage,the various center-panned signal paths are usually mixed down to two identical tracks,which,because they are identical,are perceived upon playback as representing a single unified signal at a single place in the soundstage. In some cases,multitrack sources are mixed to a one-track tape,thus becoming one signal. In the mastering stage,particularly in the days of mono records,the one- or two-track mono master tape was then transferred to a one-track lathe used to produce a master disc intended to be used in the pressing of a monophonic record. Today,however,monaural recordings are usually mastered to be played on stereo and multi-track formats,yet retain their center-panned mono soundstage characteristics.
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab is a record label that specialized in the production of audiophile issues. The company produces reissued vinyl LP records,compact discs,and Super Audio CDs and other formats.
Long Tall Sally is the fifth UK EP release by British rock band the Beatles and the band's first UK EP to include songs not previously released on an album or single in the United Kingdom. It was released by Parlophone in mono,with the catalogue number GEP 8913,and released in the United Kingdom on 19 June 1964. It was also released in Spain and France.
The Beatles Box Set is a sixteen-disc box set compiling the entire recorded works of the Beatles as issued by the band between 1962 and 1970. It was released on 15 November 1988 in Britain and America,with the same catalogue number in each of those countries. While available also in vinyl LP and cassette formats,the box set was the first complete collection of original Beatles material to be released by EMI and Capitol Records on compact disc.
The Beatles Collection is a box set of the Beatles' vinyl albums released in the United States in November 1978 and the following month in the United Kingdom. It contains the official catalogue of the Beatles in stereo,and a new compilation called Rarities.
The Capitol Albums,Volume 2 is a box set compilation composed of the Beatles' 1965 American Capitol Records releases. The set,which contains stereo and mono versions of all 92 tracks,was announced on 22 March 2006.
Jeff Jones is a music industry executive best known as the CEO of Apple Corps,the company founded by The Beatles. Jones was formerly an executive vice president at Sony/BMG,where he managed Sony's recorded catalogs,including repackaging classic albums.
Past Masters is a two-disc compilation album set by the English rock band the Beatles. It was originally released as two separate volumes on 7 March 1988,as part of the first issue of the band's catalogue on compact disc. The album contains all songs released commercially by the band that were not available on the Beatles' 12 original UK albums or the US Magical Mystery Tour LP. It was compiled by Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn,who also wrote the liner notes. The majority of the Past Masters set consists of A- and B-sides from the band's singles,including single versions of songs that appeared in a different form on the band's albums. Also included are the full contents of the UK-only Long Tall Sally EP,two German-language tracks,a song recorded for the American market,and a track released on a charity compilation album.
The Beatles in Mono is a boxed set compilation comprising the remastered monaural recordings by the Beatles. The set was released on compact disc on 9 September 2009,the same day the remastered stereo recordings and companion The Beatles were also released,along with The Beatles:Rock Band video game. The remastering project for both mono and stereo versions was led by EMI senior studio engineers Allan Rouse and Guy Massey.
The Beatles Box is an eight-record box set of Beatles recordings,initially released on 3 November 1980 by World Records,a mail-order subsidiary of EMI. It was also issued in two formats by Reader's Digest in New Zealand,Australia and Mexico.
The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings),also known as The Beatles:Stereo Box Set,is a box set compilation comprising all remastered recordings by English rock band the Beatles. The set was issued on 9 September 2009,along with the remastered mono recordings and companion The Beatles in Mono and The Beatles:Rock Band video game. The remastering project for both mono and stereo versions was led by EMI senior studio engineers Allan Rouse and Guy Massey. The Stereo Box also features a DVD which contains all the short films that are on the CDs in QuickTime format. The release date of 09/09/09 is related to the significance to John Lennon of the number nine.
The Original Mono Recordings is a box set compilation album of recordings by Bob Dylan,released in October 2010 on Legacy Recordings,catalogue 88697761042. It consists of Dylan's first eight studio albums in mono on nine compact discs,the album Blonde on Blonde being issued on two discs in its original vinyl format. It does not include the singles collection Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits released during the same time span. The set includes a 56-page booklet with photographs,discographical information,and an essay by Greil Marcus. It peaked at No. 152 on the Billboard 200.
Released in 1982,The Beatles Mono Collection is a boxed set of all Beatles' albums which were originally issued on mono LPs in the UK. EMI reportedly pressed a total of 10,000 copies of each reissue mono LP for sale individually. An unknown quantity of unnumbered red boxes were issued in the UK,while 1000 numbered black boxed sets were assembled and issued in the United States by the Dutch East India Trading Co. These US sets originally sold for $79.00 and included a numbered certificate and an order blank for additional sets.
Rarities is the name of two separate and unrelated compilation albums by the English rock band the Beatles. The first was released in the United Kingdom in December 1978,while the second album was issued in the United States in March 1980.
The U.S. Albums is a box set compilation comprising the remastered American albums released by the Beatles between 1964 and 1970. The box set was released on 21 January 2014 in the United States,marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles' first trip to the US and first American album from Capitol Records,Meet the Beatles!
The Beatles EP Collection is a box set of vinyl records by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released by EMI's Parlophone record label in the United Kingdom on 7 December 1981. The box set consists of thirteen of the band's extended play (EP) releases from 1963 to 1967,including the double EP Magical Mystery Tour,and a new disc,titled The Beatles,which compiled previously unavailable stereo mixes of four songs. Released with the Parlophone catalogue number BEP 14,the box set was the third in a series of format-based sets in the UK,after The Singles Collection 1962–1970 (1976) and The Beatles Collection (1978).
