Love (The Beatles album)

Love
Soundtrack / remix album by The Beatles
Released 20 November 2006
Recorded

1963–1969 at EMI, Trident, Olympic and Apple studios, London,
EMI Studios, Bombay and Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles;

mixed 2004-2006 at Abbey Road Studios
Genre rock, rock and roll, psychedelic rock, hard rock
Length 78:37 (CD, cassette, vinyl)
80:34 (DVD-Audio)
Language English
Label Apple, Capitol, EMI
Producer George Martin and Giles Martin
Compiler George Martin
Professional reviews
The Beatles chronology
The Capitol Albums, Volume 2
(2006)		 Love
(2006)		 The Beatles Stereo Box Set
(2009)

Love is a Grammy Award-winning soundtrack remix album of music recorded by The Beatles, released in November 2006. It features music compiled and remixed as a mashup for the Cirque du Soleil show of the same name. The album was produced by George Martin and his son Giles Martin, who said, "What people will be hearing on the album is a new experience, a way of re-living the whole Beatles musical lifespan in a very condensed period."[3]

Contents

Release history

George Martin and his son Giles began work on Love after getting permission from Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, and Olivia Harrison (the latter two representing John Lennon and George Harrison, respectively).[3] In discussing the project, Giles Martin noted that elements were used from recordings in The Beatles catalogue, "the original four tracks, eight tracks and two tracks and used this palette of sounds and music to create a soundbed."[3] George Martin also promised a prize to those who could crack a "code" found in the album.[4]

Giles Martin said in an interview that he was afraid they would not get the green light to do the project, so he started by making digital back-ups of the original multi-track recordings just to get started on the project. He also said that he and his father mixed more music than was eventually released, including "She's Leaving Home" and a version of "Girl" that he was particularly fond of.[5]

McCartney and Starr, the surviving members of The Beatles, responded very positively to the album. McCartney noted that "This album puts The Beatles back together again, because suddenly there's John and George with me and Ringo". Starr commended George and Giles Martin for the album and said that the album is "really powerful for me and I even heard things I'd forgotten we'd recorded."[6][7]

The album was first played publicly on Virgin Radio's The Geoff Show. Virgin Radio DJ Geoff Lloyd, a self-proclaimed fan of The Beatles, chose to play the entire album uninterrupted to allow younger fans to experience an album premiere.[8]

Love placed at #3 in the UK Albums Chart during its first week of release, trailing Westlife's The Love Album and Oasis' Stop the Clocks compilation.[9] It was also successful in the United States, debuting at #4 in the Billboard 200, where it was certified Platinum in late 2006.[10]

At the 50th annual Grammy awards on 10 February 2008, the album won Grammys in two categories—Best Compilation Soundtrack Album and Best Surround Sound Album.

Release details

The album was released in three versions—a standard Compact Disc version, a two-disc CD and DVD-Audio package, and a two-disc vinyl package. The DVD-Audio disc contains a 5.1-channel surround sound mix (96 kHz 24-bit MLP), downmixable to two-channel. For backwards compatibility it also contains separate audio-only DVD-Video content with two-channel stereo (48 kHz 16-bit PCM) and 5.1-channel surround (448 kbit/s Dolby Digital and 754 kbit/s DTS).

Region Date Label Format Catalog
Japan 15 November 2006 Toshiba-EMI CD TOCP-70200
CD/DVD-Audio TOCP-70201
United Kingdom 20 November 2006 Apple, EMI
CD 3798082 / 0946 3 79808 2 8
CD/DVD-Audio 3798102 / 0946 3 79810 2 3
United States 21 November 2006 Apple, Capitol, EMI CD 0946 3 79808 2 8
CD/DVD-Audio 0946 3 79810 2 3
United Kingdom 30 April 2007 Apple, EMI
Vinyl

Track listing

The DVD-Audio has longer versions of "Revolution" and "Back in the U.S.S.R.", increasing the total running time by about two minutes. The track listing for both discs is as follows: All tracks written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted (see also: Lennon/McCartney).

  1. "Because" – 2:44
  2. "Get Back" – 2:05
  3. "Glass Onion" – 1:20
  4. "Eleanor Rigby" (with "Julia" transition) – 3:05
  5. "I Am the Walrus" – 4:28
  6. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" – 1:22
  7. "Drive My Car"/"The Word"/"What You're Doing" – 1:54
  8. "Gnik Nus" – 0:55
  9. "Something" (with "Blue Jay Way" transition) (George Harrison) – 3:29
  10. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"/"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"/"Helter Skelter" – 3:22
  11. "Help!" – 2:18
  12. "Blackbird"/"Yesterday" – 2:31
  13. "Strawberry Fields Forever" – 4:31
  14. "Within You Without You"/"Tomorrow Never Knows" (Harrison, Lennon/McCartney) – 3:07
  15. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" – 4:10
  16. "Octopus's Garden" (Richard Starkey) – 3:18
  17. "Lady Madonna" – 2:56
  18. "Here Comes the Sun" (with "The Inner Light" transition) (Harrison) – 4:18
  19. "Come Together"/"Dear Prudence" (with "Cry Baby Cry" transition) – 4:45
  20. "Revolution" – 2:14 (CD version) / 3:23 (DVD version)
  21. "Back in the U.S.S.R." – 1:53 (CD version) / 2:34 (DVD version)
  22. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Harrison) – 3:46
  23. "A Day in the Life" – 5:08
  24. "Hey Jude" – 3:58
  25. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" – 1:22
  26. "All You Need Is Love" – 3:39

Track elements

Love contains elements from 130 individual commercially released and demo recordings of The Beatles,[11] and is a complex remix and polymix of multiple songs known as a mashup.[12] While a complete list has not been disclosed, highlights of how the elements were mixed have been noted by the press.

Chart performance

Chart (2007) Providers Peak
position		 Certification Sales
Argentina Album Chart CAPIF 1 2× Gold 40,000[21]
US Billboard 200 Billboard 4[22] 2× Platinum [23] 2,000,000+ [23]
Billboard Comprehensive Albums 4 [24]
Billboard Top Internet Albums 1[25]
Euro Album Chart IFPI 1[26] 2× Platinum[27] 2,000,000+
Canada Album Chart Nielsen Soundscan 1[28] 2× Platinum[29] 200,000+
France Album Chart SNEP/IFOP 1[30] Platinum 211,200[31]
Greek International Album Chart IFPI 1[32] Gold 20,000
Ireland Album Chart IRMA 1 3× Platinum 45,000
Australian Album Chart ARIA 2[33] 2× Platinum 140,000+
New Zealand Album Chart RIANZ 2[34] Platinum 15,000+
German Album Chart Media Control 2[35] 3× Gold 300,000+
Sweden Album Chart GLF 2[36] Gold 20,000+
UK Albums Chart BPI/The Official UK Charts Company 3[37] 2× Platinum 769,000 (to June 8, 2007)
Japanese Album Chart Oricon 3[38] Platinum 242,822
Swiss Album Chart Media Control Europe 3[39]
Belgium Album Chart Ultratop / Nielsen 3[40] Gold 15,000+
Austria Album Chart Media Control Europe 3[41]
Netherlands Album Chart Megacharts 4[42] Gold 47,130
Czech Republic Albums Chart IFPI 4[43]
Portugal Album Chart Promusicae/Media Control 5[44] Gold 10,000+
Finland Album Chart GLF 5[45]
Italy Album Chart FIMI/Nielsen 7[46] Platinum 150,000
Spain Album Chart Promusicae/Media Control 9[47]
Estonia Album Chart Media Control Europe 17[48]

Year-end

End of year chart (2007) Position
German Albums Chart [49] 52

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ #245, Dec. 2006, p133
  2. ↑ #1014, 30 November 2006, p112
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Beatles to release new album". NME. 2006-10-02. http://www.nme.com/news/beatles/24534. Retrieved 2006-10-03. 
  4. ↑ Beatles producers says "Love" soundtrack includes secret code theclockradio.com. Retrieved on June 15, 2007.
  5. ↑ Norwegian Wood - The Beatles Fan Club
  6. ↑ ""Love" Released in Stereo and 5.1 - on November 20th 2006". The Beatles. 2006-10-16. http://www.beatles.com/newsletters/Issue_16/index.htm. Retrieved 2006-10-17. 
  7. ↑ "The Beatles' new album: full details here". NME. 2006-10-17. http://www.nme.com/news/beatles/24757. Retrieved 2006-10-17. 
  8. ↑ "Amazing response to the Beatles album". Virgin Radio. 2006-11-16. http://www.virginradio.co.uk/music/news/story/494/Amazing_response_to_the_Beatles_album.html. Retrieved 2006-11-17. 
  9. ↑ "Westlife beat Oasis, U2 and The Beatles in UK album battle". NME. 2006-11-26. http://www.nme.com/news/oasis/25205. Retrieved 2006-11-26. 
  10. ↑ "Billboard.com - Artist Chart History - The Beatles". Billboard 200. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=4057&model.vnuAlbumId=2258. Retrieved 2006-12-03. 
  11. ↑ "The Beatles - Love". About.com. http://classicrock.about.com/od/reviews/fr/beatles_love.htm. Retrieved 2007-01-06. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Beatles smash hits now a mashup". CTVNews. 2006-11-21. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061121/beatles_mashup_061121/. Retrieved 2006-11-23. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Willman, Chris (2006-11-29). "Labor of LOVE". Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1562172_4_0_,00.html. Retrieved 2006-11-29. 
  14. ↑ Cohen, Howard (2006-11-21). "It's hard not to LOVE the new Beatles album". Miami Herald. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/music/16063294.htm. Retrieved 2006-11-23. 
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Gundersen, Edna (2006-11-13). "A likely lament: 'You can't do that to The Beatles". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2006-11-13-beatles-cover_x.htm. Retrieved 2007-01-16. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 "The Beatles: Love - PopMatters Music Review". PopMatters. 2006-12-15. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/8835/the-beatles-love1/. Retrieved 2006-12-27. 
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Watson, Greig (2006-11-17). "Love unveils new angle on Beatles". BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6159426.stm. Retrieved 2006-11-17. 
  18. ↑ [1] Retrieved on 16 August 2008.
  19. ↑ The Beatles Love website (video section). beatles.com. Retrieved on 8 May 2008.
  20. ↑ "The Beatles 'LOVE' Podcast". The Beatles. 2007-01-11. http://www.thebeatles.com/hub/love/podcast/love_podcast.xml. Retrieved 2007-01-22. 
  21. ↑ Discos de Oro y Platino
  22. ↑ Billboard 200
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 [2]
  24. ↑ Billboard Comprehensive Albums
  25. ↑ Top Internet Albums
  26. ↑ Euro Album Chart
  27. ↑ Ifpi Platnum by Month
  28. ↑ Allmusic Chart Information
  29. ↑ CRIA Gold & Platinum certifications for December 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
  30. ↑ PALMARÈS - ALBUMS TOP 200 - 07/07/2007
  31. ↑ Charts Francais
  32. ↑ CHARTS - IFPI En
  33. ↑ Aria Charts
  34. ↑ Rianz.org
  35. ↑ Charts-Surfer
  36. ↑ Hitlistan.se
  37. ↑ The Official Charts
  38. ↑ アルバムウイークリーＴＯＰ５０補完スレ
  39. ↑ Swiss Charts
  40. ↑ Entertainment Skynet
  41. ↑ Austrian Charts
  42. ↑ Megacharts
  43. ↑ HitParada
  44. ↑ Artistas & Espectáculos 2008 . Top Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa
  45. ↑ Finnish Charts
  46. ↑ Fimi.it
  47. ↑ Los 40
  48. ↑ Estonia Album Chart
  49. ↑ http://www.mtv.de/charts/Album_Jahrescharts_2007

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