THE BEATLES : 1967-1970 (2023 EDITION)

Disc One (56:24)

1. Strawberry Fields Forever
2. Penny Lane
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4. With A Little Help From My Friends
5. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
6. Within You Without You
7. A Day In The Life
8. All You Need Is Love
9. I Am The Walrus
10. Hello, Goodbye
11. The Fool On The Hill
12. Magical Mystery Tour
13. Lady Madonna
14. Hey Jude
15. Revolution

Disc Two (78:18)

1. Back In The U.S.S.R.
2. Dear Prudence
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
5. Glass Onion
6. Blackbird
7. Hey Bulldog
8. Get Back
9. Don’t Let Me Down
10. The Ballad Of John And Yoko
11. Old Brown Shoe
12. Here Comes The Sun
13. Come Together
14. Something
15. Octopus's Garden
16. Oh! Darling
17. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
18. Let It Be
19. Across The Universe
20. I Me Mine
21. The Long And Winding Road
22. Now And Then

Label : Apple Records

Release Date : November 10, 2023

Review (AllMusic) : Picking up where 1962-1966 left off, the double-album compilation 1967-1970, commonly called the Blue Album, covers the Beatles' later records, from Sgt. Pepper's through Let It Be. Like the Red Album, the Blue Album was released in the wake of a pair of widely advertised quadruple-LP bootlegs, Alpha Omega, Vols. 1-2: The Story of the Beatles, which had appeared early in 1973. And like its companion volume, this set contains a mixture of hits, including singles like "Lady Madonna," "Hey Jude," and "Revolution" - which had originally appeared only as 45s - plus important album tracks like "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "A Day in the Life," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," and "Come Together," as well as orphaned tracks such as the single versions of "Let It Be" and "Get Back," which had never been on any LP before. The first two sides of the original double-LP edition carry listeners through the highlights of the psychedelic era, starting with "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" and up through "Magical Mystery Tour," before returning to rock & roll territory on "Lady Madonna," "Hey Jude," and "Revolution." The second LP skims three of the more popular tracks off the sprawling White Album (aka The Beatles) and moves into the late singles ("The Ballad of John and Yoko," "Old Brown Shoe," "Let It Be"), plus single and album highlights from Abbey Road and Let It Be. As a précis of the group's final 36 months, it's all mightily impressive, even if 1967-1970 misses several great songs. But like its predecessor, this set does capture the essence (if not the full range) of the Beatles' later recordings. [1967-1970 received a deluxe reissue for its 50th anniversary, one containing an expanded track listing and a fresh remix by Giles Martin. The expansion corrects a couple of flaws on the original sequence of the Blue Album by adding George Harrison's Indian exploration "Within You Without You," the lovely pair of "Dear Prudence" and "Blackbird" from the White Album, plus the heavier rockers "Hey Bulldog" and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)." The big news about this particular reissue is all tied to the machine-learning technology developed for Peter Jackson's 2022 documentary Get Back. This technology allowed Martin to isolate elements of the original mixes, thereby enabling him to develop dynamic new mixes that employ the full range of the stereo spectrum. These new remixes retain the spirit of the original but leap from the speakers, sounding bigger and bolder than before. The machine-learning also gave the Beatles the opportunity to finish "Now and Then," a John Lennon song they attempted to complete during the Anthology sessions in the mid-'90s. Lennon's voice has been isolated from his piano - a problem back in the 1990s - allowing Paul McCartney to build a loving, empathetic arrangement around the wistful melody, resulting in a sweet little epilogue to the Beatles' career.]