The Beatles will have a new album in November. 'Love' is the soundtrack album for the Cirque du Soleil show currently playing in Las Vegas.
Beatles producer Sir George Martin used master tapes from EMI's Abbey Road Studios to create the new soundscape. The result is being called a new Beatles album."This music was designed for the Love show in Las Vegas but in doing so we've created a new Beatles album" said Sir George in a statement. "The Beatles always looked for other ways of expressing themselves and this is another step forward for them."
The album was commissioned by the remaining Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr and Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison on behalf of the Lennon and Harrison estates.
Giles Martin, the son on George, is a co-producer of the album. "We took all the Beatles' catalogue from tape, the original four tracks, eight tracks and two tracks and used this palette of sounds and music to create a sound bed" he says. "What people will be hearing on the album is a new experience, a way of re-living the whole Beatles musical lifespan in a very condensed period".
A tracklisting for the album is yet to be confirmed.
The album will be released in November.
