Contents • • • • • • • • • • • Album listing [ ] The sixteen-disc collection contains the remastered stereo versions of every album in the Beatles catalogue. The first four albums ( Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night and Beatles for Sale) made their CD debut in stereo, though most songs from those albums have previously appeared on CD in stereo on various compilations. And Rubber Soul use the remixes prepared by for the original 1987 CD releases (the original 1965 stereo mixes were released on ). Magical Mystery Tour is presented in the sequence and artwork of its original North American album release, as opposed to the UK six-song EP. All CDs replicate their original album labels as first released, from the various Parlophone Records variations, to the Capitol Records label (for Magical Mystery Tour) and the UK Apple Records side A label from Yellow Submarine through Let It Be, and with the side A & side B Apple labels for discs one & two respectively for The Beatles. For, disc one uses a mid-1960s Parlophone label design and disc two uses the (side A) Apple label design.

One of the remarkable things about listening to Past Masters is hearing many of The Beatles' biggest hits. Nor the 2009 remastered albums. The Beatles – Past. The Beatles:Mono Masters We have been sent this description of 'Mono Masters', the 'Past Masters' equivalent which will accompany the limited edition boxed set 'The Beatles in Mono', due out on 09/09/09.

Each of the albums except Past Masters includes a mini-documentary, mainly drawing from (with a few animated 3D scenarios made up of original photos thrown in), about the album in format. The Beatles and Past Masters are two-disc sets. • (1963) • (1963) • (1964) • (1964) • (1965) • (1965) • (1966) • (1967) • (1967) • (1968) • (1969) • (1969) • (1970) • (1988) Missing stereo session tapes [ ] No stereo mixes exist for the 1963 single ' and its flipside ' or the 1962 single ' and its flipside '. It was the practice at Abbey Road Studios prior to early 1963 to and re-use master tapes once they had been mixed down to mono for single release. Cm 03 04 original database.

For this reason there will never be true stereo mixes of 'Love Me Do' or 'P.S. Although the practice had stopped by the time of the release of the 'She Loves You' single, and although it is possible that the master tapes were in EMI's possession in January 1964, when the German language version was recorded, it is commonly believed that those tapes were either stolen or destroyed. Competent-sounding stereo versions of 'She Loves You' have been created unofficially using the backing track from 'Sie Liebt Dich', but the engineers who prepared the remasters elected not to do this. Every release of these four songs has been in mono (or simulated stereo) and they appear in mono on the stereo version of Past Masters and Please Please Me. This is also the case for the single version of ' with Ringo on drums but at some point (fairly early on) even the mixed down mono tape of this version of the song was lost.