The Beatles’ best-selling 1 compilation has been reissued globally in a variety of editions, with remixed audio and fully restored and enhanced video clips.
The album was originally released in November 2000, and combined 27 of The Beatles’ biggest hits on one disc. It sold over 30 million copies, becoming the best-selling album of the decade, and earlier in 2015 was still selling more than 1,000 copies a week.
Beatles fans have long wanted the group’s promotional film clips to be made commercially available, and today’s release on DVD and Blu-ray has the footage looking better than ever, restored the clips with up to 4K resolution by a team who undertook months of frame-by-frame cleaning, colour grading, digital enhancement and new edits.
The audio, too, has been remixed, with new life breathed into the familiar recordings. The remixes were overseen by Giles (son of George) Martin and Sam Okell at Abbey Road Studios.
Seven different editions of 1 have been released by Apple Corps Ltd/UMG. The standard CD contains the same 27 tracks as the November 2000 release, although with remixed audio.
The basic DVD and Blu-ray sets each contain 27 videos for their number one hits, with new stereo and 5.1 Dolby Digital and DTS HD surround audio mixes by Martin and Okell, as well as audio commentary and filmed introductions by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr..
Combined CD/DVD and CD/Blu-ray editions are also available, but more tempting are the limited edition 1+ box sets, which feature a second disc containing 23 extra films, plus an exclusive 124-page hardback book.
A vinyl edition of the remixed album will also be released on 4 December 2015.
‘Love Me Do’
From Me To You
‘She Loves You’
‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’
‘Can’t Buy Me Love’
‘A Hard Day’s Night’
‘I Feel Fine’
‘Eight Days A Week’
‘Ticket To Ride’
‘Help!’
‘Yesterday’
‘Day Tripper’
‘We Can Work It Out’
‘Paperback Writer’
‘Yellow Submarine’
‘Eleanor Rigby’
‘Penny Lane’
‘All You Need Is Love’
‘Hello, Goodbye’
‘Lady Madonna’
‘Hey Jude’
‘Get Back’
‘The Ballad Of John And Yoko’
‘Something’
‘Come Together’
‘Let It Be’
‘The Long And Winding Road’
‘Twist And Shout’
‘Baby It’s You’
‘Words Of Love’
‘Please Please Me’
I Feel Fine
Day Tripper
Day Tripper
We Can Work It Out
Paperback Writer
‘Rain’
Rain
‘Strawberry Fields Forever’
‘Within You Without You’/‘Tomorrow Never Knows’
‘A Day In The Life’
Hello, Goodbye
Hello, Goodbye
‘Hey Bulldog’
Hey Jude
‘Revolution’
Get Back
‘Don’t Let Me Down’
‘Free As A Bird’
‘Real Love’
Ahead of the release, previews of the restored videos for Get Back, The Long And Winding Road, Strawberry Fields Forever, Help! and I Feel Fine were released on The Beatles’ YouTube channel, as well as a five-part documentary on the restoration process and full-length versions of Penny Lane, Revolution, A Day In The Life, I Feel Fine and Hello, Goodbye.
Can’t wait to hear how good this sounds and looks! Anyone????
The remixes are great. the vocals and instruments sound more full, powerful kind of like the mono releases but its in stereo. The Beatles worked in Mono and the original stereo remixes were left to someone at Capitol i think, They sounded thin
All of their songs were mixed for stereo in England. Capitol never mixed any Beatles songs, although they did create a number of “fake stereo” mixes from the mono tracks (when for instance they did not have a stereo mix of a particular track, take “She Loves You” from stereo Second Album as an example.
Very disappointed in the remixes. I was expecting something along the lines of Help! and All You Need Is Love from Love.
404: All You Need Is Love (actually very punchy) drum track not found.
Well at least they managed to get Yellow Submarine drum track and vocals centered this time.
Strange, I think the 1+ remixes sound every bit as amazing as the Love remixes.
100% agreed with you, Bosca, …………Some of the songs sounds great -Let it be, El. Rigby, Get back-, , but there are others ones -Tickect to ride, Lady M, and so on that I didn´t notice any remx……………sounds the same that 2009 n1 remaster.. A great pity.
How I wish they were releasing the collection in vinyl records, with the original album covers.
My copy is now officially collecting dust………
The original one release was partly McCartney’s handiwork. It was the only Beatle album that I disliked. Its has Penny Lane as a number one song but no Strawberry Fields??? It has Hey Jude but no Revolution. Hearing Paul cry about John getting to much recognition and then wanting to change the song writing credits from Lennon-McCartney to McCartney-Lennon is petty. I lowered my Respect for Paul. He is so worried about who gets credit for what. when all you have to do is listen to who singing the song 95% of the time John sang his songs and Paul sang his. However with this new release it has the missing Lennon tunes included and the remixing was fantastic for the most part. Its worth a listen.