The Beatles 1967-1970

Release: 1973
Remastered reissue:1993
Side One Side Two
1 Strawberry Fields Forever 1 I Am The Walrus
2 Penny Lane 2 Hello, Goodbye
3 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 3 The Fool On The Hill
4 With A Little Help From My Friends 4 Magical Mystery Tour
5 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 5 Lady Madonna
6 A Day In The Life 6 Hey Jude
7 All You Need Is Love 7 Revolution

Side Three Side Four
1 Back In The U.S.S.R. 1 Here Comes The Sun
2 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 2 Come Together
3 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 3 Something
4 Get Back 4 Octopus's Garden
5 Don't Let Me Down 5 Let It Be
6 The Ballad Of John And Yoko 6 Across The Universe
7 Old Brown Shoe 7 The Long And Winding Road

Original - Apple Remastered - Apple
CD (Europe import) --- 077 7 97039 2 3
Cassette ? 466 797039 4
LP SBTL 1023/4
31C 166 05309/10 		---

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After the Beatles' breakup, bootleg compilations began to appear. So Apple decided to make an official compilation to stop the bootleg spread. The Beatles' career at EMI was reviewed in two double albums: 1962-1966 and 1967-1970 (this one).

These albums featured standardized gatefold sleeves that became famous: on the front and back, a photo of the group at the EMI building, one in 1963 and other in 1969. The "1967-1970" used the 1969 photo on the front cover and the other on the back, the "1962-1966" is the opposite. Inside, a photo of The Beatles among a crowd (St. Pancras Churchyard, 1968), and the song list. Completing the set, each disc had an inner sleeve with song lyrics.
The nice touch that nicknamed these album were the colors Red and Blue: for "1967-1970", the sleeve border, the inner sleeves, and the disc Apple label background were blue. (Of course, everything in blue for the "1962-1966" compilation).

These albums were discontinued in 1988 when the CDs were issued, but in 1993 they were re-released on CD, after a new remastering with better quality than the regular CDs. It was the first release under the Apple label in almost 20 years.

The CD release follows the "coloured" style of the LP: the box is coloured, and also the Apple label background on the discs. The booklet follows the style of the LP inner sleeves.

Remastered Differences

On the original issue, A Day In The Life was taken directly from the "Sgt. Pepper's" album master, crossfaded with Sgt. Pepper's... (Reprise), fading in with a crowd noise that is part of that song. The CD reissue presents a version taken directly from the master tape, with clean intro, and it is the only Beatles CD that has this version (it appeared for the first time on the Imagine - John Lennon soundtrack album).

The CD booklet feature also extra pictures. All pictures have captions, including those that already appeared, not identified, on the original issue.

The original issue had some mistakes in the lyrics, corrected on the reissue. For instance, on "Get Back", the original sleeve has "Sweet Loretta a modern thought she was a woman", while the CD booklet was corrected to "Sweet Loretta Martin thought".

Unlike the original albums' remastered reissues, the "Red" and "Blue" weren't released on LP (only CD and cassette).

International Differences

This was the first CD release that had to be imported in Brazil, because Apple allowed the manufacturing of their CDs only in the own EMI factories, in the US and Europe.
Since cassettes are out of this agreement, they are made in Brazil.
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