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First pressing, released  April 30, 2007. After being asked by the remaining Beatles, Ringo and Paul, along with Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison, to make experimental mixes from their master tapes for a collaboration with Cirque du Soleil, Sir George Martin and his son Giles Martin worked with the entire archive of Beatles recordings to create LOVE. The idea for using the Beatles’ music in a Cirque du Soleil production had originally come from Harrison, who died in November 2001, through his friendship with the company’s founder, Guy Laliberté. The result is an unprecedented approach to the music. Using the master tapes at Abbey Road Studios, Sir George and Giles created a unique soundscape. The release of the album, which is also featured in the Cirque du Soleil/Beatles collaborative production of the same name at The Mirage in Las Vegas.

Gatefold sleeve:

The first pressing has a gatefold sleeve with Apple, Parlophone and Cirque Du Solril logos on back side and date 2007, and with credits: “Beatles”, “Apple” and the Apple logos are trademarks of Apple Corps. Ltd”…

The first pressing has a round dark tan label with a diameter of 32 mm with yellow and white text and number 379 8081.

Record 1 have the red labels with yellow prints and with Parlophone and Apple logos on 9 o’clock. Record 2 have the yellow labels with red prints and with Parlophone and Apple logo on 9 o’clock. On the 7′ o’clock all labels there is serial number 094637 98081 1. Matrix numbers: Side A: 3798081 A-2; Side B: 3798081 B-2; Side C: 3798081 C-2; Side D: 3798081 D-2.

Booklet:

The first pressing has the 28-pages color booklet with Apple, Parlophone and Cirque Du Solril logos on back side and number 094637 98081 1, and with credits: “Beatles”, “Apple” and the Apple logos are trademarks of Apple Corps. Ltd”.

Second pressing, release:  November 20, 2014. This album has the other serial number: 6 025470 4850 9. The second pressing has a gatefold sleeve with Apple and Cirque Du Solril logos on back side and date 2006, and with credits: “Beatles” is a trademarks of Apple Corps. Ltd”.

The second pressing has a round red label with white and yellow text and number 0602547048509.

Record 1 have the red labels with yellow prints and only Apple logos on 9 o’clock. Record 2 have the yellow labels with red prints and only Apple logo on 9 o’clock. On the 7′ o’clock all labels there is serial number 0602547048509. Matrix number variations:

Variation 1: Side A: BE 67959-01 A2; Side B: BE 67959-01 B2  i…i; Side C: BE 67959-02 C1; Side D:BE 67959-02 D1  i…i.

Variation 2: Side A: BE 67959-02 A2; Side B: BE 67959-02 B2  i…i; Side C: BE 67959-02 C1; Side D: BE 67959-02 D1  i…i

Booklet:

The first pressing has the 28-pages color booklet with Apple and Cirque Du Solril logos on back side and number 0602547048509, and with credits: “Beatles” is a trademarks of Apple Corps. Ltd”.

Compare the reverse booklets of the first and second editions:

1st. edition 2007:

2nd. edition 2014:

 

Released November 8, 2013. Nearly 20 years after the first Live at the BBC album, The Beatles are back with another collection of material recorded live for radio broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
On Air – Live At The BBC Volume 2 contains 40 musical performances, 37 of them never before issued by the BBC, EMI, Apple or Capitol (the first volume had 56 songs, 30 of them previously unreleased). Between the songs are 19 short clips of banter among the boys. These interpolations give you an experience very much like the one you would have had listening to the programs on the radio. You are a witness to the birth of British Beatlemania.
Buddy Holly’s “Words of Love” sounds quite different without the lush reverb applied to Lennon and McCartney’s vocals on the album version. George Harrison barrels through “Do You Want to Know a Secret?” at a faster clip than usual. “Please Please Me” and “Chains” both lack Lennon’s trademark harmonica licks. “And I Love Her” has a heavier feel, with Harrison playing electric lead instead of the more delicate album track’s acoustic.
Paul McCartney rock out on “Beautiful Dreamer” and Lennon take the lead on Chuck Berry’s “I’m Talking About You.” Of the non-album tracks that make repeat appearances, “The Hippy Hippy Shake” is tighter and harder-rocking than the version selected for volume one. One of the very best alternate versions is of Ray Charles’ “I Got a Woman.” The whole feel of this version is different than the one on the ’94 album.
On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2 offers another chance to revel in the greatness of the early Beatles.

Set includes: tri-fold sleeve (6 panels, 2 spines), three records and three picture inner sleeves. Vinyl pressed by Optimal Media GmbH, Germany.

Tri-fold sleeve outside:

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Black and white sticker 4.5 x 3 cm.

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Matrix number variations:

Side 1: 3749153 BD27070-01 A1 / Side 2: 3749153 BD27070-01 B1 // Side 3: 3749169 BD27070-02 C1 / Side 4: 3749169 BD27070-02 D1 // Side 5: 3750506 BD27070-03 E1 / Side 6: 3750506 BD27070-03 F1

Side 1: 3749153 BD27070-01 A1 / Side 2: 3749153 BD27070-01 B2 // Side 3: 3749169 BD27070-02 C1 / Side 4: 3749169 BD27070-02 D1 // Side 5: 3750506 BD27070-03 E1 / Side 6: 3750506 BD27070-03 F2

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Promotional EP, Apple BBCLPEP.

Released October 14, 2013. 300 copies were given away as a free promo by HMV 363 Oxford Street from 8am on 14/10/2013 to commemorate their relocation to original store premises. Sticker on back lower right corner – “HMV IS HOME – Exclusive relaunch project – 18th October 2013”.

Letter of HMV and sticker:

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The remaining copies were used as an the On Air – Live At The BBC Volume 2 promotion.

Matrix numbers: Side A: BBCLPEP 3D28912-01A1 / Side B: BBCLPEP 3D28912-01B1

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Released September 8, 2014. The Beatles’ Mono Masters is a compilation album limited to tracks originally mixed to mono.
Disc one, side one, includes the original single versions of “Love Me Do”, “From Me to You”, “Thank You Girl”, “I’ll Get You”, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, and “This Boy”, That’s all you really need to know – great music and close to great sound. On side two, featuring two German-language tracks and EP material issued in the U.S. on the album Something New. Disc two includes, among other cuts, “Day Tripper”, “Paperback Writer”, “Lady Madonna”, and “Hey Jude.” The third LP features an assortment of tracks previously issued in fold-down mono from the stereo version, where a real mono track existed or tracks like “Get Back” and “Don’t Get Me Down” were released in different versions. The three albums are housed in a three-way foldout cover with detailed informative liner notes about the history of each song. Like all the other covers in the band’s mono series, Apple copies the “tri-fold” cover construction.

Set includes: tri-fold sleeve (6 panels, 2 spines), three records and three black paper poly-lined inner sleeves. Vinyl pressed by Optimal Media GmbH, Germany.

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Matrix number variations:

Side A: 0827151 BD20087-01 A2 Y / Side B: 0827151 BD20087-01 B2 N U // Side C: 08271617 BD20088-01 A2 T / Side D: 08271617 BD20088-01 B2 B i…i // Side E: 4090231 BD20091-01 A1 ☮ / Side F: 08271617 BE48109-01 B1 i…i

Side A: 0827151 BD20087-01 A2 Y / Side B: 0827151 BD20087-01 B2 A N i…i // Side C: 08271617 BD20088-01 A2 T / Side D: 08271617 BD20088-01 B2 B i…i Side E: 4090231 BD20091-01 A1 ☮ / Side E: 08271617 BE48109-01 B1 i…i

Side A: 0827151 BD20087-01 A2 Y / Side B: 0827151 BD20087-01 B2 IV i…i // Side C: 08271617 BD20088-01 A2 T / Side D: 08271617 BD20088-01 B2 B i…i Side E: 4090231 BD20091-01 A1 ☮ / Side E: 08271617 BE48109-01 B1 i…i

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