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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Beatles 1967-1970, The (CD) Album By Beatles (The)
1   Strawberry Fields Forever  
2   Penny Lane  
3   Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band  
4   With A Little Help From My Friends  
5   Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds  
6   Day In The Life  
7   All You Need Is Love  
8   I Am The Walrus  
9   Hello Goodbye  
10   Fool On The Hill  
11   Magical Mystery Tour  
12   Lady Madonna  
13   Hey Jude  
14   Revolution  
 
DISC 2 for Beatles 1967-1970, The (CD) Album By Beatles (The)
1   Back In The USSR  
2   While My Guitar Gently Weeps  
3   Ob La Di Ob La Da  
4   Get Back  
5   Don't Let Me Down  
6   Ballad Of John And Yoko  
7   Old Brown Shoe  
8   Here Comes The Sun  
9   Come Together  
10   Something  
11   Octopus's Garden  
12   Let It Be  
13   Across The Universe  
14   Long And Winding Road  
 

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Review

Q (10/00, p.154) - Included in Q's "Best Best Of... Albums Of All Time"
Q (10/93, p.118) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Musically, joy certainly is unconfined....[THE RED and BLUE ALBUMS] vividly trace the story of [the Beatles'] development..."
NME (9/18/93, p.35) - (10) - Classic.
Melody Maker (10/9/93, p.41) - "...[a] timeless wonder...."

Product note

The Beatles: John Lennon, George Harrison (vocals, guitar); Paul McCartney (vocals, piano, bass); Ringo Starr (vocals, drums).
Digitally remastered by Mike Jarratt (1987-88, Abbey Road Studios, London, England).
The 1967-1970 (BLUE ALBUM) includes a booklet with liner notes, lyrics and photographs.
The Beatles' impact on popular music is inestimable. They changed the face of rock & roll, introducing new concepts and techniques again and again throughout their career, influencing both their contemporaries and the next several generations of rock & roll. In the early '60s, when the golden age of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis had given way to prefabricated teen idols and bland, diluted versions of real rock & roll and R&B, the Beatles' brash, effervescent blend of '50s vintage sounds and bold, electric pop saved the world.
Not content with reviving rock & roll almost single-handedly, the Beatles continued to innovate. Borrowing a bit from John Lennon's hero Bob Dylan, they pioneered the progression from generic love songs to more personalized, introspective subject matter. Let loose in the studio, they were among the first in the pop world to use backwards tapes, feedback and exotic instrumentation (George Harrison's well-documented love affair with Indian music inspired a thousand sitar-infested pop tunes). Lennon & McCartney (and occasionally Harrison) were phenomenally gifted tunesmiths who merged a pre-rock harmonic vocabulary with R&B influences and a visionary streak to create a timeless body of work.

Album Description

The companion piece to the 1962-1966 singles compilation, this set (often called "the blue album", as opposed to its chronological predecessor "the red album"), brings together the Beatles best known songs from 1967 through 1970. The Beatles were fiercely, relentlessly experimental during these years, and the swirling, visionary soundscapes of "Strawberry Fields Forever", which opens the collection, sets the tone with its effects-heavy production and backward tape loops. John Lennon's psychedelic songwriting, which emphasised crystalline melodies and surreal wordplay, can be heard on tracks like "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds" and "Across the Universe".
Paul McCartney's fascination with English music hall and novelty numbers is clear on "Penny Lane" and "Ob-la-Di, Ob-la-Da", and the set also has some of his finest ballads, including the mega-hits "Let It Be" and "Hey Jude". George Harrison emerged as a fine songwriting talent during these years with "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun". Yet despite evidence of their diverging individual directions, the Beatles still rock as a band on cuts like "Revolution". (The set includes the single versions of "Revolution", "Lady Madonna", and "Hey Jude"). The Beatles set the tenor of the late-'60s with this spectacular soundtrack, and it remains--even after years of overplaying--original, beautiful music.

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