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……

Digitally remastered digipak edition of this classic 1965 album from The Beatles featuring 'Ticket To Ride', 'Help!', 'You've Got To Hide Your Love Away', 'I've Just Seen A Face', 'Yesterday' 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.

FIRST TIME EVER SPECIAL EDITION will include both the stereo CD and a BONUS AUDIO DVD packaged in a digi-package with O-card. The DVD is audio only and will contain 81 minutes of music in both 5.1 surround sound and stereo (presented in DVD-Audio MLP, DTS, Dolby and PCM).

"Love" is a fascinating reworking of numerous classic Beatles recordings by the band's original producer, Sir George Martin, and his son Giles. "Love" is also the title of the highly successful Cirque du Soleil show, a co-production with Apple Corps featuring the music of the Beatles, currently wowing audiences in Las Vegas. In creating the music for the show and for the album, George and Giles have created a continuous "soundscape"--a series of well-known Beatles songs augmented by additional instrumentation and vocals taken from their vast bank of original multi-track tapes. If you can imagine "Strawberry Fields Forever" beginning with John's original demo before going into an early take of the song and then climaxing in a musical collage including the piano solo from "In My Life" and the harpsichord pattern from "Piggies" and lots, lots more--or "Get Back" prefaced by the "Hard Day's Night" opening guitar chord, the guitar and drum solos from "The End," and segued into "Glass Onion," you will begin to get the picture. But hearing is believing! The guys have pushed back the boundaries and come up with a brand-new work that will add to the enduring legacy of the band. The result is an amazing album that not only reinforces the timeless quality of the group's recordings--the fans will have fun enjoying the roller-coaster experience of the album whilst trying to spot where all the pieces come from--it is also destined to open up a new legion of fans to the Beatles experience.

披头士的第一部电影《A Hard Day´s Night》诞生于1964年。随即推出的这张同名专辑收录了电影中出现的歌曲以及与电影无关的几首作品。制作这部电影的最初目的是进一步宣传披头士，而数十年后，这部黑白色调的小制作却成为公认的经典。
在音乐上，这张专辑获得巨大成功，留下数首名作，如《A Hard Day´s Night》，《And I Love Her》，《Can´t Buy Me Love》等。

First CD reissue of the album.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (often referred to simply as Sgt. Pepper) is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967, Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the roles of sound composition, extended form, psychedelic imagery, record sleeves, and the producer in popular music. The album had an immediate cross-generational impact and was associated with numerous touchstones of the era's youth culture, such as fashion, drugs, mysticism, and a sense of optimism and empowerment. Critics lauded the album for its innovations in songwriting, production and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for reflecting the interests of contemporary youth and the counterculture.

«Before Sgt. Pepper, no one seriously thought of rock music as actual art. That all changed in 1967, though, when John, Paul, George and Ringo (with "A Little Help" from their friend, producer George Martin) created an undeniable work of art which remains, after 30-plus years, one of the most influential albums of all time. From Lennon's evocative word/sound pictures (the trippy "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," the carnival-like "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite") and McCartney's music hall-styled "When I'm 64," to Harrison's Eastern-leaning "Within You Without You," and the avant-garde mini-suite, "A Day in the Life," Sgt. Pepper was a milestone for both '60s music and popular culture. --Billy Altman»

Credits:

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – EMI Records Ltd.
Copyright © – EMI Records Ltd.
Artwork [Cover Staged By] – Jann Haworth, Peter Blake (4)
Artwork [Cover] – M C Productions, The Apple
Artwork [Wax Figures] – Madame Tussauds
Design – Paul Wilkinson (3)
Design Concept [Cd Packaging Design Idea] – Kathryn Varley
Engineer [Recording] – Geoff Emerick
Engineer [Second] – Richard Lush (tracks: 1 to 8, 10 to 13)
Liner Notes – Peter Blake (4)
Liner Notes [Quote] – George Martin
Liner Notes [Words] – Mark Lewisohn
Photography By [Cover] – Michael Cooper (8)
Producer – George Martin
Written-By – Lennon/McCartney* (tracks: 1 to 7, 9 to 13)
℗ 1967 Original Sound Recordings made by EMI Records Ltd.
© 1967 EMI Records Ltd.
© 1987 EMI Records Ltd.

Made in the U.K. (on back cover). Made in Italy (on CD).

Comes in a jewel case enclosed in a cardboard box with a 28 page booklet including Sgt. Pepper's cut-outs.

Track 1 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on February 1, 1967. Album version mixed from take 10.
Track 2 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on March 29, 1967. Album version mixed from take 11.
Track 3 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on March 1, 1967. Album version mixed from take 8.
Track 4 recording started in studio 2 at abbey Road on March 9, 1967. Album version mixed from take 15.
Track 5 recording started at Regent Sound Studio, Tottemham Court Road, London on February 21, 1967 and later completed at Abbey Road. Album version mixed from take 3.
Track 6 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on March 17, 1967. Album version mixed from take 9.
Track 7 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on February 17, 1967. Album version mixed from take 9.
Track 8 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on March 22, 1967. Album version mixed from take 2.
Track 9 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on December 6, 1966. Album version mixed from take 4.
Track 10 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey road on February 23, 1967. Album version mixed from take 11.
Track 11 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on February 8, 1967. Album version mixed from take 11.
Track 12 recording started in studio 1 at Abbey Road on April 1, 1967. Album version mixed from take 9.
Track 13 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on January 19, 1967. Album version mixed from takes 6 & 7.

Black and white photograph courtesy of the Michael Cooper Collection.

The rear of the booklet states all tracks except 8 are by Lennon/McCartney, but the liner notes are more specific.

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.

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.