For the remixing project, Martin commented: "The remasters went back to these final mix tapes and remastered them. In 2015 it was remastered again and remixed by Giles Martin when Martin began to assist with fixing up the audio tracks for the 1+ video clips, he realised that his goal of making them "more immersive" should also apply to 1.
In 2011, 1 was remastered and reissued on CD. The remastering was overseen by Peter Mew of Abbey Road Studios and took place there. According to the liner notes of the album, the original analogue masters were "digitally remastered at 24 bits resolution, processed using Sonic Solutions NoNoise technology and mastered to 16-bit using Prism SNS Noise Shaping". The songs on 1 were remastered specifically for the release in 2000. The second remastering was made available on the CD versions for 1962–19–1970, released in 1993. On 1, " Hey Jude" was included in its original full-length version (slightly over seven minutes), whereas the American version of 20 Greatest Hits contained a shortened version.īefore 1, all 27 songs were mainly available on two remastered CD releases: firstly on the respective Beatles studio albums released in 1987 (as well as Past Masters, Volume One and Past Masters, Volume Two, released in 1988). The album is a combination of both the US and UK versions of the 1982 compilation 20 Greatest Hits, with the addition of " Something" (which was left off 20 Greatest Hits because of time constraints).
"Strawberry Fields Forever" was part of a double A-side single with " Penny Lane", which reached the top spot in Melody Maker and peaked at number 2 in the other UK charts, behind Engelbert Humperdinck's " Release Me". The former was the Beatles' first UK number one single in all British charts except Record Retailer, reaching the top spot in the music magazines New Musical Express, Melody Maker and Disc. Two singles written by John Lennon and released in both the UK and US were omitted as they did not top either the Record Retailer chart or the Billboard Hot 100: " Please Please Me" and " Strawberry Fields Forever". " Day Tripper" was included on 1 since it charted at number 1 in the UK as a double A-side with " We Can Work It Out", while in the US, only "We Can Work It Out" was number 1. Despite Harrison's " For You Blue" charting at number 1 on Billboard, along with the A-side " The Long and Winding Road", Capitol Records treated "For You Blue" as strictly a B-side and did not promote it as an A-side. The album contains the 27 Beatles songs that went to number one in the United Kingdom on the Record Retailer Top 50 chart or in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. ġ was compiled by producer George Martin and former band members Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. It was remixed and reissued again in several different deluxe editions in November 2015, the most comprehensive of which is a three-disc set entitled 1+, which includes video discs of Beatles promotional films.Īs of June 2015, 1 was the sixth best-selling album of the 21st century in the UK, having sold over 3.1 million copies. In addition, since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking US album sales in January 1991, 1 is the fourth best-selling album in the US, the best-selling album of the 2000s decade in the US, as well as the best-selling album of the decade worldwide.ġ was remastered and reissued in September 2011. 1 was a commercial success and topped charts worldwide. Issued on the 30th anniversary of the band's break-up, it was their first compilation available on only one CD.
The album features virtually every number-one single the band achieved in the United Kingdom and United States from 1962 to 1970. George Harrison, George Martin, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starrġ is a compilation album by the English rock band the Beatles, originally released on 13 November 2000.
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