在完成Let It Be之后，甲壳虫四人组合着手制作他们作为一个乐队、一个组合的最后一张专辑。这之后，乐队成员将各奔东西。由于这张专辑是在伦敦的阿比大街(Abbey Road)录制的，所以Beatles将其命名为Abbey Road。
录制于甲壳虫乐队最后日子的《阿比大街》是其成就的顶点，充分展示了乐队成员成熟的技艺。如同对他们多年共同合作的一个总结，该专辑包括了每一个成员的作品，各种不同的风格熔于一炉。其中摇滚乐有：The End，I Want You，Oh!Darling，Come Together，民谣类有Because，Something，而Sun King中的吉它片段，Carry That Weight、Golden Slumbers中的配乐，I Want You、Sun King、Maxwell's Silver Hammer中Sgt. Pepper式的倒带、各种奇奇怪怪的新乐器以及录音室噱头，都给人留下深刻印象。
所有乐队成员都有创作汇入该专辑，而每一个作品都是对他们各自独特秉赋的绝好印证。特别突出的是George的Something和Here Comes The Sun，这也许是有史以来最棒的两首歌了。Ringo的配乐技巧同样令人难以忘怀，Octopus's Garden显然有着该专辑中最诱人的旋律之一。
Beatles的解散代表着一个他们统治并参与创建的时代的结束，也许可以说以前或以后都不会有象他们这样的乐队了。对于无数的Beatles迷来说，这解散的时刻自然令他们黯然神伤。而若干年后列农的遇刺，更使他们中的许多人痛心疾首、甚至号啕大哭。时至今日，当刺杀列农的凶手可能获释的消息传来，他们中还有人扬言：这小子如果今天出狱，他将见不到明天的太阳！
这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第14位。

《Past Masters》是发行于1988年的一套较全面的Beatles单曲合辑，所收录的歌曲主要是Beatles的A、B面主打单曲，其中有不同于专辑版本中的单曲。Vol. 1收录了62—65年时期的歌曲，Vol. 2收录65—70年的。合辑还包括之前仅在英国发行的EP《Long Tall Sally》（1964），两支德语歌（Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand & Sie Liebt Dich），一支仅在美国发行的Bad Boy和曾收录在一张慈善专辑中的Across the Universe（Wildlife version）。

披头士的第一部电影《A Hard Day´s Night》诞生于1964年。随即推出的这张同名专辑收录了电影中出现的歌曲以及与电影无关的几首作品。制作这部电影的最初目的是进一步宣传披头士，而数十年后，这部黑白色调的小制作却成为公认的经典。
在音乐上，这张专辑获得巨大成功，留下数首名作，如《A Hard Day´s Night》，《And I Love Her》，《Can´t Buy Me Love》等。

Japanese exclusive reissue of 1963 album. This Toshiba/EMI pressing features an OBI strip (different from the last Japanese pressings issued in 1990) & an insert with Japanese text & lyrics in Japanese & English. Manufactured & pressed in Japan. This album has been direct metal mastered from a digitally remastered original tape to give the best possible sound quality. 2003.

First CD reissue of the album.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (often referred to simply as Sgt. Pepper) is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967, Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the roles of sound composition, extended form, psychedelic imagery, record sleeves, and the producer in popular music. The album had an immediate cross-generational impact and was associated with numerous touchstones of the era's youth culture, such as fashion, drugs, mysticism, and a sense of optimism and empowerment. Critics lauded the album for its innovations in songwriting, production and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for reflecting the interests of contemporary youth and the counterculture.

«Before Sgt. Pepper, no one seriously thought of rock music as actual art. That all changed in 1967, though, when John, Paul, George and Ringo (with "A Little Help" from their friend, producer George Martin) created an undeniable work of art which remains, after 30-plus years, one of the most influential albums of all time. From Lennon's evocative word/sound pictures (the trippy "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," the carnival-like "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite") and McCartney's music hall-styled "When I'm 64," to Harrison's Eastern-leaning "Within You Without You," and the avant-garde mini-suite, "A Day in the Life," Sgt. Pepper was a milestone for both '60s music and popular culture. --Billy Altman»

Credits:

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – EMI Records Ltd.
Copyright © – EMI Records Ltd.
Artwork [Cover Staged By] – Jann Haworth, Peter Blake (4)
Artwork [Cover] – M C Productions, The Apple
Artwork [Wax Figures] – Madame Tussauds
Design – Paul Wilkinson (3)
Design Concept [Cd Packaging Design Idea] – Kathryn Varley
Engineer [Recording] – Geoff Emerick
Engineer [Second] – Richard Lush (tracks: 1 to 8, 10 to 13)
Liner Notes – Peter Blake (4)
Liner Notes [Quote] – George Martin
Liner Notes [Words] – Mark Lewisohn
Photography By [Cover] – Michael Cooper (8)
Producer – George Martin
Written-By – Lennon/McCartney* (tracks: 1 to 7, 9 to 13)
℗ 1967 Original Sound Recordings made by EMI Records Ltd.
© 1967 EMI Records Ltd.
© 1987 EMI Records Ltd.

Made in the U.K. (on back cover). Made in Italy (on CD).

Comes in a jewel case enclosed in a cardboard box with a 28 page booklet including Sgt. Pepper's cut-outs.

Track 1 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on February 1, 1967. Album version mixed from take 10.
Track 2 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on March 29, 1967. Album version mixed from take 11.
Track 3 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on March 1, 1967. Album version mixed from take 8.
Track 4 recording started in studio 2 at abbey Road on March 9, 1967. Album version mixed from take 15.
Track 5 recording started at Regent Sound Studio, Tottemham Court Road, London on February 21, 1967 and later completed at Abbey Road. Album version mixed from take 3.
Track 6 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on March 17, 1967. Album version mixed from take 9.
Track 7 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on February 17, 1967. Album version mixed from take 9.
Track 8 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on March 22, 1967. Album version mixed from take 2.
Track 9 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on December 6, 1966. Album version mixed from take 4.
Track 10 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey road on February 23, 1967. Album version mixed from take 11.
Track 11 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on February 8, 1967. Album version mixed from take 11.
Track 12 recording started in studio 1 at Abbey Road on April 1, 1967. Album version mixed from take 9.
Track 13 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on January 19, 1967. Album version mixed from takes 6 & 7.

Black and white photograph courtesy of the Michael Cooper Collection.

The rear of the booklet states all tracks except 8 are by Lennon/McCartney, but the liner notes are more specific.

First CD reissue of the album.


Revolver is the seventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was first released on 5 August 1966, accompanied by the double A-side single "Eleanor Rigby" and "Yellow Submarine". The album was the Beatles' final recording project before their retirement as live performers and marked the group's most overt use of studio technology to date, building on the advances of their late 1965 release Rubber Soul. It has since become regarded as one of the greatest and most innovative albums in the history of popular music, with recognition centred on its range of musical styles, diverse sounds and lyrical content.


Credits:
Made By – PDO, Germany – 2896 974
Published By – Northern Songs Ltd.
Printed By – EMI Services Benelux B.V.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – EMI Records Ltd.
Copyright © – EMI Records Ltd.

Design [Cover Designed By], Cover – Klaus Voormann
Engineer – Geoff Emerick
Lead Vocals [Lead Singer] – George Harrison (tracks: 1, 4, 12), John Lennon (tracks: 3, 7, 9. 11, 14), Paul McCartney (tracks: 2, ,5, 8, 10, 13), Ringo Starr (tracks: 6)
Photography By – Robert Whitaker
Producer – George Martin
Written-By – Harrison* (tracks: 1, 4, 12), Lennon/McCartney* (tracks: 2, 3, 5 to 11, 13, 14)

Made in W. Germany
℗ 1966 Original Sound Recordings made by EMI Records Ltd.
© 1966 EMI Records Ltd.
Printed in Holland by EMI Services Benelux B.V. Uden

滚石音乐(Rolling Stone Magazine )史上最佳Top 500 Albums之010#

动感电影《黄色潜水艇》上市30周年纪念特辑采用全球最新[5.1环绕音效科技混音]录制，自1965-67年创作的经典作品完整收录。30年前您若错过一次，这次岂能错过千禧年全球最大盛事，改写音乐历史的巨人――[披头士合唱团]。披头士创下多项历史记录，拥有如此高的成就，这些荣耀应归功于热情的披头迷。

《99全新数位混音版》共收录披头士15首歌曲，所不同的是30年前版本只有6首披头士作品，这张CD将原来《黄色潜水艇》（《YELLOW SUBMARINE》）漏收的这9首重新加入，并全部数位化。

Digitally remastered digipak edition of this classic 1965 album from The Beatles featuring 'Ticket To Ride', 'Help!', 'You've Got To Hide Your Love Away', 'I've Just Seen A Face', 'Yesterday' and many more. The album has been remastered at Abbey Road Studios in London utilizing state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. Within the CD's new packaging, the booklet includes detailed historical notes along with informative recording notes. A newly produced mini-documentary on the making of the album is included as a QuickTime file on each album. The documentary contains archival footage, rare photographs and never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles, offering a unique and very personal insight into the studio atmosphere. Capitol.

Digitally remastered digipak edition of this classic 1970 album from The Beatles featuring 'The Long And Winding Road', 'Across The Universe', 'Let It Be', 'Get Back' and many more. The album has been remastered at Abbey Road Studios in London utilizing state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. Within the CD's new packaging, the booklet includes detailed historical notes along with informative recording notes. A newly produced mini-documentary on the making of the album is included as a QuickTime file on each album. The documentary contains archival footage, rare photographs and never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles, offering a unique and very personal insight into the studio atmosphere. Capitol. NOTE: Let It Be was never released in mono and is not available in The Beatles In Mono boxset.

Abbey Road is the eleventh released studio album by English rock band The Beatles and their last recorded. Though Let It Be was the last album released before the band's dissolution in 1970, work on Abbey Road began in April 1969. Abbey Road was released on 26 September 1969 in the United Kingdom, and 1 October 1969 in the United States. It was produced and orchestrated by George Martin for Apple Records. Geoff Emerick was engineer, Alan Parsons was assistant engineer, and Tony Banks was tape operator.
Abbey Road is regarded as one of The Beatles' most tightly constructed albums, although the band was barely operating as a functioning unit at the time.Rolling Stone placed it at number 14 on its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2009, readers of the magazine also named Abbey Road the greatest Beatles album. (转自维基百科)

Japanese exclusive reissue of 1964 album. This Toshiba/EMI pressing features an OBI strip (different from the last Japanese pressings issued in 1990) & an insert with Japanese text & lyrics in Japanese & English. Manufactured & pressed in Japan. Gatefold sleeve. 2003.

Rank 'em how you like, Rubber Soul is an undeniable pivot point in the Fab Four's varied discography no matter where, or how, you first heard it. The album was softened up in its original 12-song American edition to jibe with the Dylan/Byrds folk-rock sound, as well as squeeze money from the Parlophone catalog. The 14-song U.K. edition--the version now available on compact disc--is a different, more dynamic, and ultimately more accomplished achievement. So many classics: "Drive My Car" and "Nowhere Man" (both omitted from the U.S. edition) merge the early combustible Beatifics to a burgeoning studio consciousness; "The Word" can be read as a pre-psych warning shot; the sitar-laden "Norwegian Wood" and the evocative "Girl" (the latter written on the last night of the sessions) stand as turning points in John Lennon's oeuvre. George finally emerges too, with the McGuinn-ish "If I Needed Someone." EMI. 2005.