二十世纪最伟大的乐队，二十七首冠军细碟，一次过收录在一张镭射唱片里面！由六三年推出《Please Please Me》到最后一张专辑《Let It Be》，The Beatles只得七年寿命，但却生产了二十七首冠军歌，绝对是前无古人、后无来者。
当然，如果你已经拥有了《1962-1966》和《1967-1970》两套精选唱片，这张《1》对你的吸引力未必很大，作为一个普通乐迷，已经差不多拥有了最流行的The Beatles作品，不过如果你是忠实的「披头迷」，这张唱片的价钱还是省不了的，因为唱片的小册子印满了每一张细碟的原装封套，无论是英国版、美国版、法国版或日本版均一并印载，仿如一本迷你的The Beatles细碟全书。
况且《1962-1966》和《1967-1970》都是双唱片集，而各自收录的歌曲亦只是廿多首，相比之下，《1》就更物超所值了。
Mariah Carey在98年也曾推出过一张叫《#1's》的冠军细碟精选唱片，但就只收录16首歌，还要强硬将翻唱Brenda K.Starr的《I Still Believe》（林忆莲比她更早翻唱！）和几首未能夺魁的单曲加诸其中，比起廿七首冠军歌，也实在相差太远了！
在怀缅昔日的光辉之际，我们也应该期望着下个巨人的出现，只是，巨人得来不易，还是继续播放《Yesterday》吧……

滚石音乐(Rolling Stone Magazine )史上最佳Top 500 Albums之003#

Digitally remastered digipak edition of this classic 1970 album from The Beatles featuring 'The Long And Winding Road', 'Across The Universe', 'Let It Be', 'Get Back' and many more. The album has been remastered at Abbey Road Studios in London utilizing state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. Within the CD's new packaging, the booklet includes detailed historical notes along with informative recording notes. A newly produced mini-documentary on the making of the album is included as a QuickTime file on each album. The documentary contains archival footage, rare photographs and never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles, offering a unique and very personal insight into the studio atmosphere. Capitol. NOTE: Let It Be was never released in mono and is not available in The Beatles In Mono boxset.

Abbey Road is the eleventh released studio album by English rock band The Beatles and their last recorded. Though Let It Be was the last album released before the band's dissolution in 1970, work on Abbey Road began in April 1969. Abbey Road was released on 26 September 1969 in the United Kingdom, and 1 October 1969 in the United States. It was produced and orchestrated by George Martin for Apple Records. Geoff Emerick was engineer, Alan Parsons was assistant engineer, and Tony Banks was tape operator.
Abbey Road is regarded as one of The Beatles' most tightly constructed albums, although the band was barely operating as a functioning unit at the time.Rolling Stone placed it at number 14 on its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2009, readers of the magazine also named Abbey Road the greatest Beatles album. (转自维基百科)

Rank 'em how you like, Rubber Soul is an undeniable pivot point in the Fab Four's varied discography no matter where, or how, you first heard it. The album was softened up in its original 12-song American edition to jibe with the Dylan/Byrds folk-rock sound, as well as squeeze money from the Parlophone catalog. The 14-song U.K. edition--the version now available on compact disc--is a different, more dynamic, and ultimately more accomplished achievement. So many classics: "Drive My Car" and "Nowhere Man" (both omitted from the U.S. edition) merge the early combustible Beatifics to a burgeoning studio consciousness; "The Word" can be read as a pre-psych warning shot; the sitar-laden "Norwegian Wood" and the evocative "Girl" (the latter written on the last night of the sessions) stand as turning points in John Lennon's oeuvre. George finally emerges too, with the McGuinn-ish "If I Needed Someone." EMI. 2005.