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Beatles Remastered

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Sep 9, 2009 Updated Sep 10, 2009

The Beatles took just over six years to produce more than 220 songs...and now we can hear them as nature intended.

In a painstaking process that took four years to complete, the albums have been re-mastered by a team of engineers at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, using bleeding-edge recording technology coupled with vintage studio equipment.

The idea was to restore the clarity and integrity of the original recordings, and as such, though the master tapes were cleaned of dust, distortion, hiss and microphone pops, none of the content has been remixed, and the new recordings retain all the studio noises and chat from the original albums.

The collection comprises all 12 Beatles albums in stereo, plus Magical Mystery Tour. In addition, the collections Past Masters Vol. I and II are now combined as one title, for a total of 14 titles over 16 discs.

A second boxed set has been created with the collector in mind. The Beatles in Mono gathers together all the Beatles recordings that were mixed for a mono release.

See if you can spot which is the revamped version of Love Me Do in our ABC Dig Music blindfold test.

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The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. The group's best-known lineup consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and...

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