For the 50th anniversary, the Beatles’ Red and Blue Albums have now been re-released: with additional songs, some remixed with the help of artificial intelligence. Everything just yesterday or Yeah, Yeah, Yeah?
Already when these two bestofcompilations appeared in 1973, they were more than just records. The Red and Blue Double Albums, as they were soon called, were monuments, memorials. The original titles already had something of a gravestone inscription: 1962 – 1966 and 1967 – 1970. The years included not only the time in which the Beatles wrote music history in the recording studio; they also represented the spirit of optimism of the Sixties. With this look back at the best songs from the best band in the world, the sixties were finally buried.
Now they have been exhumed with great pomp.