Meet The Beatles CDs, again
The original 12 Beatles albums, plus Magical Mystery Tour and a now-single-disc version of Past Masters, will be reissued this September 9th. Each will be remastered. Is this a long-needed dusting-off of the not-very-satisfying original CDs or another attempt to get Beatles fans to part with their money? Well, definitely the former, if the press release is to be believed:
Each of the CDs is packaged with replicated original UK album
art, including expanded booklets containing original and newly written
liner notes and rare photos. For a limited period, each CD will also be
embedded with a brief documentary film about the album. On the same
date, two new Beatles boxed CD collections will also be released.
The albums have been re-mastered by a dedicated team of engineers at
EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period utilising
state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio