The Beatles are to celebrate sixty years of Beatlemania with a brand next boxset, which includes their 1964 US albums.
This will include seven albums from the Fab Four, with each having analogue cut for 180-gram audiophile vinyl from their original mon maters tapes.
These albums were originally produced for release in the US between January 1964 and March 1965 by Capitol Records and United Artists. They have been re-released to celebrate six decades of Beatlemania.
This release which has been titled: ‘The Beatles: 19645 US Albums In Mono’, will be available in an eight LP, 180 gram vinyl box set.
‘Meet The Beatles’
When they were originally released, the Beatles’ albums which include ‘Meet The Beatles’, arrived on 20 January 1964, spending 11 weeks at number one in the charts.
On April 10 that year, ‘The Beatles’ Second Album’ was released, and spent five weeks at the top of the chart.
In June, The Beatles spent a further 14 weeks at top spot with ‘A Hard Day’s Night (Original Motion Picture Sound Track)’.
The band also released ‘Something New’ on July 20, with ‘The Beatles Story’ arriving on November 23.
Further albums were also released before the year was out, including ‘Beatles 65’ on December 15.
‘The Early Beatles’ arrived the following March. This album also peaked at Number 43 on the charts.
These albums also include replicated artwork, and four-panel inserts, featuring essays from Bruce Spizer, American Beatles historian and author.
“1964 was a banner year” for Beatles Albums
On this forthcoming album, a press release said the following.
“1964 was a banner year for The Beatles in the US (and all around the world), even by the band’s own ‘toppermost of the poppermost’ standards”, they said. “The Beatles racked up 17 US Top 40 singles including six Number Ones, six Top 10 albums including four Number Ones, and a blockbuster film. By year’s end, Capitol had sold more than 15 million Beatles records”.
It also added: “60 years on, Beatlemania is timeless. The Beatles’ beacon is alight evermore, renewed with the wonder of each generation’s joyful discovery and in creative exploration of the band’s music and cultural eminence by musicians, filmmakers, writers, and other fans of all stripes”.
The albums were cut by Kevin Reeves at Nashville’s East Iris Studios, with the box set including seven albums.
All of them except for ‘The Beatles Story’ are available individually.
It will arrive on November 22 via Apple Corps Ltd, Capitol and UMe. Pre-order for yourselves here.
Back in July, former Police drummer, Stewart Copeland claimed that The Beatles’ Get Back movie helped the band to re-evaluate their past. More on this here.
