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Release date: 04-12-2014(Orginally released in 1973)

2014 EU reissue on 180g 26-track double compilation LP - The Red (1962-1966) and Blue (1967-1970) albums were compiled and released in the spring of 1973, a year when the legend of The Beatles was even bigger than it had been when the group was together. Less greatest-hits collections than surveys of The Beatles' high points, the two double albums became essential introductions for fans who came aboard after The Beatles broke up. For millions of music lovers born after the mid-50s, these have been and always will be where The Beatles experience begins. Finally, both are on audiophile-quality vinyl editions, mastered from the original analog U.K. master tapes by Sean Magee at Abbey Road! All of the "fake stereo" mixes are replaced with the original, true mono.

Tracks:
LP1
A1 Love Me Do
A2 Please Please Me
A3 From Me To You
A4 She Loves You
A5 I Want To Hold Your Hand
A6 All My Loving
A7 Can't Buy Me Love

B1 A Hard Day's Night
B2 And I Love Her
B3 Eight Days A Week
B4 I Feel Fine 2:17
B5 Ticket To Ride
B6 Yesterday

LP2
C1 Help!
C2 You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
C3 We Can Work It Out
C4 Day Tripper 2:49
C5 Drive My Car
C6 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

D1 Nowhere Man
D2 Michelle
D3 In My Life
D4 Girl
D5 Paperback Writer
D6 Eleanor Rigby
D7 Yellow Submarine

By 1973 it was becoming clear that the breakup of The Beatles was not going to be, as many had believed, a temporary thing. There was still widespread hope that they would reunite at some point, but their continued success as solo artists made it apparent that the four former Beatles were serious about going their separate ways. The Beatles had never had a career spanning Best-Of or Greatest Hits - in a very real senses all of their LPs were Greatest Hits albums. They had more hit singles that could fit on even a double album, and to complicate things, some of the group's most important songs - "A Day In The Life," "The Fool On The Hill" and in England even "Yesterday" - were not released as singles.

The Red and Blue albums had to tell The Beatles' story in limited time, necessarily leaving out many big songs while conveying a sense of the whole history of the group. The collections do a superb job of condensing a rich and complicated musical journey into four discs that move easily through a range of styles. The Red album gathers most of The Beatles early hits from the band's formative yet trailblazing years 1962-1966 and covers material off of the albums Please Please Me through to Revolver.