Description
Apple Music: The Beatles — 1+, Apple Corps / Universal (2 DVD + CD Box Set)
In VERY GOOD condition! As pictured! Buy with confidence!
Product Details
- UPC: 0602547567727
- Product Type: 2 DVD + CD Box Set
- Brand / Label: Apple Corps / Universal Music
- Artist: The Beatles
- Release Year: 2015
- Genre: Rock / Pop
- Style: British Invasion, Classic Rock
- Video Standard: NTSC, 16:9, DVD9
- Audio: PCM Stereo, DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1
- Region: All Regions
- Running Time: 205 minutes (DVD)
Product Features
- Format: 2 DVD + 1 CD, slipcase box set
- Disc 1 (DVD & CD): 27 official promotional films, corresponding audio CD
- Disc 2 (DVD+): 23 additional and alternate-version films
- Video: NTSC, 16:9, DVD9
- Audio: PCM Stereo / DTS 5.1 / Dolby Digital 5.1
- Region: All Regions
- Condition: Very Good — discs and packaging in excellent used condition
- Manufactured: Made in Italy
- Publisher: Calderstone Productions / Apple Corps Ltd. / Universal International Music B.V.
Overview
The Beatles' 1+ is the definitive visual companion to the 1 compilation — a set that goes beyond music-only compilations to present the actual films the band made to accompany their chart-toppers. Released in 2015 alongside a remastered audio edition, it gathers 50 promotional films across two DVDs, many of them newly restored in high definition and several presented in alternate versions for the first time.
Disc 1 moves chronologically through the hits exactly as they appeared on the 1 album: from the early-Sixties energy of "Love Me Do" and "She Loves You" to the baroque complexity of "Penny Lane," the orchestral sweep of "Eleanor Rigby," and the quiet finality of "The Long and Winding Road." These aren't concert clips — they are proper promotional films, shot with directors for television broadcast, and watching them in sequence is essentially watching the history of the music video unfold in real time.
Disc 2, the DVD+, is where collectors will spend serious time. The 23 films here include multiple alternate versions of key singles — a second take of "Day Tripper," a different "Hello, Goodbye," a rawer cut of "Rain," an alternate "Hey Jude." The restored version of "Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows" and the psychedelic "Strawberry Fields Forever" look extraordinary in remastered HD. The audio options — DTS 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1 alongside stereo — give home theater viewers something to genuinely listen to as well as watch.
For any Beatles fan who already owns the 1 album in audio form, 1+ is the natural next step. It supplies the visual record that the recordings alone cannot.
Interesting Facts
- The 1+ set was released on 6 November 2015 to mark the 15th anniversary of the original 1 compilation, which itself remains the fastest-selling album in history at the time of its release.
- Producer Giles Martin — son of Beatles producer George Martin — supervised the 5.1 remix of the audio tracks, reworking the original stereo mixes specifically for surround sound.
- Several of the DVD+ alternate films had never been released commercially before 2015; the alternate "Hey Jude" and the second "Rain" were known to collectors only through bootleg circulation.
- The "Strawberry Fields Forever" promo, directed by Peter Goldman in 1967, is widely cited as one of the first true art-directed music videos ever made.
- "Yesterday," included here, holds the record for the most covered song in history, with over 1,600 registered cover versions logged by BMI.
- The box was manufactured in Italy and distributed through Universal International Music B.V., Netherlands, under license from Apple Corps Ltd.
- All Regions encoding means the set plays on any DVD player worldwide — a practical advantage for international collectors.
Track Listing
DVD & CD — Disc 1 (27 tracks)
- Love Me Do / 2. From Me to You / 3. She Loves You / 4. I Want to Hold Your Hand / 5. Can't Buy Me Love / 6. A Hard Day's Night / 7. I Feel Fine / 8. Eight Days a Week / 9. Ticket to Ride / 10. Help! / 11. Yesterday / 12. Day Tripper / 13. We Can Work It Out / 14. Paperback Writer / 15. Yellow Submarine / 16. Eleanor Rigby / 17. Penny Lane / 18. All You Need Is Love / 19. Hello, Goodbye / 20. Lady Madonna / 21. Hey Jude / 22. Get Back / 23. The Ballad of John and Yoko / 24. Something / 25. Come Together / 26. Let It Be / 27. The Long and Winding Road
DVD+ — Disc 2 (23 tracks, alternate/additional versions)
- Twist and Shout / 2. Baby It's You / 3. Words of Love / 4. Please Please Me / 5. I Feel Fine / 6. Day Tripper / 7. Day Tripper / 8. We Can Work It Out / 9. Paperback Writer / 10. Rain / 11. Rain / 12. Strawberry Fields Forever / 13. Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows / 14. A Day in the Life / 15. Hello, Goodbye / 16. Hello, Goodbye / 17. Hey Bulldog / 18. Hey Jude / 19. Revolution / 20. Get Back* / 21. Don't Let Me Down / 22. Free as a Bird / 23. Real Love
*Alternate version
Publishers
Released by Calderstone Productions Limited (a division of Universal Music Group) / Apple Corps Limited. Distributed by Universal International Music B.V., Baarn, Netherlands. Manufactured in Italy. SDRIM/BIEM, LC01846.
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