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The Beatles’ hits get back to their best

The entire Beatles catalogue is to be digitally remastered, their record label announced yesterday.

Engineers at Abbey Road Studios, northwest London, have spent four years using a mixture of state-of-the-art recording technology and 1960s musical equipment to create what EMI Music and Apple Corps said would be the “highest fidelity the catalogue has seen since its original release”.

All 12 Beatles studio albums will be rereleased on CD in September to coincide with the release of the computer game The Beatles: Rock Band, in which fans will be able to play the group’s music themselves.

The first Beatles music was released on CD in 1987, but in the subsequent 22 years technological advances have made it possible to produce far higher quality digital recordings...
Read entire article at Times (UK)