Strawberry Fields Forever - Restored HD Video

THE BEATLES’ VIDEOS AND TOP HITS COME TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME

All-New Editions of The Beatles 1 Pair Beautifully Restored Promotional Films and Videos with Brand New Stereo and Surround Audio Mixes

Beatles 1+ Deluxe Edition Celebrates the Sight & Sound of The Beatles in 50 Films & Videos

London – September 15, 2015 – After The Beatles stopped touring, and because travelling around the globe to promote new releases was impossible, the band increasingly made what could be described as “mini movies”. These pioneering promotional films and videos helped to define the way we have come to watch music, not least because The Beatles approached filming with the same ease and innovative spirit they brought to the recording studio, exploring new creative possibilities with infectious delight. Showcasing the band’s filmed work to accompany their 27 No.1, U.K. and U.S. singles, The Beatles 1 is newly restored and expanded in multiple configurations for global release on November 6 by Apple Corps Ltd/UMG.

The 27-track CD/DVD and CD/Blu-ray pairs beautifully restored videos for each song, with new stereo and 5.1 Dolby Digital and DTS HD surround audio mixes. The brand new Beatles 1+ celebrates their career in over 200 minutes through 50 promotional films and videos. This includes the 27 No.1s, with the restored videos, along with a second disc of 23 videos, including alternate versions, as well as rarely seen and newly restored films and videos; all include new audio mixes in deluxe CD/2-DVD and CD/2-Blu-ray packages. The 27-track audio CD is also being made available with new stereo mixes. A 2 LP, 180-gram vinyl package will follow.

The new editions of The Beatles 1 have been made possible following extensive research, and restoration of the original promo films, classic television appearances and other carefully selected videos spanning the band’s history. Apple Corps dug deep into The Beatles’ vaults to select a broad range of films and videos for their rarity, historical significance and quality of performance. An 18-person team of film and video technicians and restoration artists was assembled by Apple Corps to undertake painstaking frame-by-frame cleaning, colour-grading, digital enhancement and new edits that took months of dedicated, ‘round-the-clock work to accomplish.

The result is a visual run down of The Beatles’ number one records, as well as the additional tracks on the bonus disc of Beatles 1+ that show the band in previously unseen standards of clarity and quality; many of the films and videos have never before been commercially released, in whole or in part.

Beatles 1 and Beatles 1+ offers the restored films, including 35mm negatives scanned in 4K and digitally restored with new stereo and 5.1 surround audio remixes, produced from the original analogue tapes by the GRAMMY® winning team of Giles Martin with Sam Okell at Abbey Road Studios. For four of the videos, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have provided exclusive audio commentary and filmed introductions, respectively. The 1+ Deluxe Edition, presented in an expanded 124-page illustrated hardcover book includes ‘an appreciation’ of The Beatles’ ground-breaking films and videos by music journalist and author Mark Ellen and extensive, detailed track/video annotation by music historian and author Richard Havers.

“These videos and films are spectacular reminders of the era we lived in. They also rock!” – Paul McCartney

"I think it’s really interesting to see the videos we made, some of them incredible and some of them really incredible. How else would we have got to sit on a horse?" – Ringo Starr

Between 1962 and 1970, The Beatles released 27 No.1 hit singles in the U.S. and the U.K. In 2000, these timeless songs were collected for The Beatles 1, which topped the charts in 35 countries and became that decade’s bestselling album worldwide. 15 years later, 1 is revisited for this entirely new, visually-inspired presentation.

It’s The Beatles, as you’ve never seen them before.

#THEBEATLES1

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[diego]

I'm 20 minutes old and i love The Beatles

[TheRealChrisLopez]

Can we just take a minute to appreciate how amazing the drumming is in this song. This is coming from a guitar player.

[sveinolsen]

0:15 imagine driving your car on some random road not knowing you just drove into frame whilst The Beatles filmed the music video for the arguably best song ever written

[MajorTom]

This mellotron intro litteraly mesmerizes me. It's beautiful, soft, sad and eerie at the same time.
I'm gonna carry it in my heart and soul until my last breath I think.

[galangsuryaanggara]

Lennon and george didn’t die, they just going to strawberry field forever

[stenwald]

Filmed literally 5 minutes away from my brother's cottage (in Sevenoaks, Kent). Lovely place.

[ThePsychedelicCinema]

To think, this song is now 50 years old, and it's as close to magic as I've ever heard. It's influence is everywhere....any artists before and after will be measured against their greatness, and they will all come short.

[IvanYuenTheCrazy]

1:07 "nothing is real"+ Paul's face focus
Wait a

[tinygremlinman]

Strawberry fields forever!
Also, at the end: a p p l e

[inuyunclamp]

Siempre me ha parecido misterioso este tema

[ernestosallese]

"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see." 🍓🎭 Two lines, one truth!

[MrBobLucas]

The restoration team have done a remarkable job.. this looks like it was filmed yesterday!

[daddyalbert]

Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out, it doesn't matter much to me.
Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.
No one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low.
That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right, that is I think it's not too bad.
Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.

[DeadpoolGames]

Wasn't even born when the Beatles were together but I feel nostalgic

[EtorChristie]

George Harrison's Guitar work in this song is simply incredible.

[Alexis-wwsd]

This is probably gonna get lost in the comments and i dont really know why im writing this, most likely because ive never told anyone this before but whatever. My dad was in rehab for 6 months and about a month before he could come out, i went to visit him and we went out to go eat at a restauramt and while we were driving there, he put on this song. This was the last time I ever saw him alive, he died a short while after leaving rehab from a stroke. I miss you so much dad.

[sylv]

Why does George always have to wear the weird hat 😂

[merlate]

The best part of this masterpiece is from 00:00 to 00:08.  The haunting sound of the  mellotron is giving goosebumps.

[Etzih]

It might sound naive, but I felt sort of like an amaized time traveller watching this. One who himself chose the time and place to travel to. Really

[pencil]

At 0:15 we have yet another example of George being clumsy. We can add this example to him falling down at the beginning of A Hard Day's Night, almost knocking an amp over in that same movie, and tripping repeatedly during his own music videos. What a lovable klutz <3