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New Beatles Album

A "new" album of Beatles music mixed by their legendary producer, George Martin, and described as a new "way of reliving the whole Beatles musical life span", will be released in November.
EMI Music and Apple said on Monday that Martin and his son Giles began work on the album, called Love, after getting permission from Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison, representing John Lennon and George Harrison.
The music has already been used as the soundtrack to the theatrical Cirque du Soleil show called Love.
"This music was designed for the Love show in Las Vegas but in doing so we've created a new Beatles album," George Martin said in a statement.
"The Beatles always looked for other ways of expressing themselves and this is another step forward for them.
"What people will be hearing on the album is a new experience, a way of reliving the whole Beatles musical life span in a very condensed period."
The Martins worked from the original master tapes from the Abbey Road studios to produce a medley of Beatles music by remixing favourite songs, such as Harrison's Within You Without You being played to the drum-track of Tomorrow Never Knows.
EMI Music, part of EMI Group, and Apple, the English company that administers The Beatles' interests, said the album would be released worldwide in November.
Additional information such as the track listing will be released later.
Reuters

posted by Steve @ Thursday, October 05, 2006