New Beatles album announced!!

 

A new Beatles album, 25 years on

 

 

 

 

It is news Beatles fans thought they would never hear, but 25 years on the surviving members of the band have announced a new album.

The recording is a remix of some of their best-known songs. It was used as the soundtrack to the circus show Love in Las Vegas.

Acrobats from Cirque du Soleil performed spectacular aerial tricks at the Mirage Hotel to the music. The show started in June, with an album release on the cards from early on.

And now Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, with Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison who represents John Lennon and George Harrison, have confirmed they agreed to the release of the album.

The last original album released by the band was Let It Be in 1970.

It took producer Sir George Martin and his son Giles two years working with master recordings at Abbey Road Studios to create Love.

It starts with the opening chord of A Hard Day's Night merging into Get Back, the Eastern drone of Within You, Without You accompanied by the drums form Tomorrow Never Knows and phrases from Penny Lane mixed with Strawberry Fields Forever.

"One of the challenges of the job was getting the balance of the songs right," explained Sir George on the Love website.

"We wanted to make sure there are enough good, solid hit songs in the show, but we don't want it to be a catalogue of best ofs. We also wanted to put in some interesting and not well-known Beatles music and use fragments of songs.

Giles Martin added: "Our mission was to try and achieve the same intimacy we get when listening to the master tapes at the studio. The songs sound so alive!"

The album, which is being released by EMI, will compete in the charts with Ecce Cor Meum Behold My Heart), a choral piece composed by Sir Paul after the death of his first wife, Linda.

i'm a big Beatles fan, but to be honest i don't care about their releases anymore...

Well the fact there are only two of them still around doesn't help any!!;)

The recording is a remix of some of their best-known songs

 

Lovely, just lovely :sneaky:

interesting.

I seriously dunno how to react to this :confused:

I made a thread ages ago taht something said they were releasing previously unreleased material for Cirque du Soleil.

 

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29295&highlight=beatles

 

That doesn't really sound like remixes, what happened?

I made a thread ages ago taht something said they were releasing previously unreleased material for Cirque du Soleil.

 

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29295&highlight=beatles

 

That doesn't really sound like remixes, what happened?

 

Macca needs to get some extra money in just in case Heather takes him to the cleaners!!:P

the echo reported that they are going to play at the matthew street festival 2008. i doubt it.:\

the echo reported that they are going to play at the matthew street festival 2008. i doubt it.:\

 

All two of them?:confused:

yeah probably. its about this liverpool capital of culture thing. i doubt they'd play at this festival as its more or less a drinking festival with a few cover bands playing.

Details of The Beatles' new album 'LOVE' have been confirmed.

 

The album, which is out on November 20, will be released in a CD/DVD format and will contain 78 minutes of 'new' Beatles material.

 

As previously reported by NME.COM, the album was created by Sir George Martin and his son Giles Martin.The pair used master tapes of original Beatles recordings for a collaboration with Cirque Du Soleil.

 

In a statement, Paul McCartney said: "This album puts The Beatles back together again, because suddenly there's John and George with me and Ringo."

 

Ringo Starr added: "George and Giles did such a great job combining these tracks. It's really powerful for me and I even heard things I'd forgotten we'd recorded."

 

The tracklisting for the album is:

 

'Because'

'Get Back'

'Glass Onion'

'Eleanor Rigby'/'Julia' (Transistion)

'I Am The Walrus'

'I Want To Hold Your Hand'

'Drive My Car'/' The Word'/'What You're Doing'

'Gnik Nus'

'Something'/'Blue Jay Way' (Transition)

'Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!'/'I Want You (She's So Heavy)'/ 'Helter Skelter'

'Help!'

'Blackbird'/'Yesterday'

'Strawberry Fields Forever'

'Within You Without You'/'Tomorrow Never Knows'

'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds'

'Octopus's Garden'

'Lady Madonna'

'Here Comes The Sun'/'The Inner Light' (Transition)

'Come Together'/'Dear Prudence'/'Cry Baby Cry' (Transition)

'Revolution'

'Back In The USSR'

'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'

'A Day In The Life'

'Hey Jude'

'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)'

'All You Need Is Love'

hmm, well it sounds interesting, i'll definatly look out for it

Favourite The Beatles album

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles#Discography

 

White Album or Abbey Road for me

Abbey Road for me. Though I can also say Revolver.

it is difficult to choose one

:thinking: :thinking: :thinking: White Album

:stunned:

I don't know any The Beatles album...

:stunned:

I don't know any The Beatles album...

Haha what?.. Don't you know any? :stunned:

No.....yeah I know them by name....but that's it!

 

I know the most famous beatles songs (which seem to be overrated for me...)....so I was never really interested in them...

No.....yeah I know them by name....but that's it!

 

I know the most famous beatles songs (which seem to be overrated for me...)....so I was never really interested in them...

Oh wow.. The Beatles were the four people who made me fall in love with music in general, actually.

 

I think you should give them a try :wacko:

Hmmm.....I thought about that as well....my sister has got 6 cds by them with rare songs...maybe I should listen to those....:thinking:

Abbey Road for me. I love the red and blue 'the best off'-collections though.

 

Didn't buy me the white album yet.

Tough poll...

Probablly 'Rubber soul' or 'Abbey Road', can't decide though :\

:\ Ugh such a difficult decision! I'd go for either 'Abbey Road' or 'Revolver'

Abbey Road, no question...