The Beatles: Red and Blue Albums will be reissued and will add 21 new songs

Those known as the Rojo album (1962-1966) and Azul (1967-1970) by the Beatles They will be reissued this Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of their appearance, and will add 21 songs that did not appear in the original, including the band’s “last song,” “Now and Then.”

The albums will be released in a collection of 4 CDs or 6 vinyls, and the songs have been mixed in stereo and Dolby Atmos by Giles Martin and Sam Okell at Abbey Road studios, as announced in a statement by Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe.

The greatest hits collections will also include new essays by journalist and writer John Harris.

This release comes just days after the release of the single “Now and Then”, proclaimed by the Beatles as their “last song”, which artificial intelligence made possible by recovering the voice of the late John Lennon from a demo that he he recorded before he died.

The reissues of Red and Blue, which for generations have served as a gateway to the music of the Liverpool quartet, will contain a total of 75 songs, from their first single, “Love Me Do”, to the aforementioned “Now and Then ”.

In recent years, several songs from both musical stages have been remixed for this release.

Among the songs that from now on are incorporated into the repertoire of this Beatles selection and that did not previously appear are “I Saw Her Standing There”, “This Boy”, “Roll Over Beethoven”, “You Can’t Do That”, “Taxman” or “If I Needed Someone”, in the Rojo, and “Within You Without You”, “Dear Prudence”, “Hey Bulldog”, “Oh! Darling”, “I Want You (She She She’s So Heavy)” or “I Me Mine”, in the Blue.

With information from EFE