- Title: GERMANY: GERMANY GETS READY TO LAUNCH BEATLES NO 1 - COMPACT DISC
- Date: 10th November 2000
- Summary: COLOGNE, GERMANY (NOVEMBER 10, 2000) (REUTERS COVER - ACCESS ALL) WIDE OF EMI ELECTROLA BUILDING, DECORATED WITH BEATLES PICTURES, PAN TO HELICOPTER LANDING SMV .ACTOR DRESSED AS ONE OF THE BEATLES WAVES FROM HELICOPTER WINDOW WIDE OF PRESS WAITING VARIOUS , FOUR ACTORS DRESSED UP AS SERGEANT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND STEP OUT OF HELICOPTER, ONE IS CARRYING THE NEW
- Embargoed: 25th November 2000 12:00
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- Location: COLOGNE, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Entertainment
- Reuters ID: LVAEEDC18NHMCJ4T7907AKM88NCK
- Story Text: Beatles mania is back! Thirty years after the so-called Fab Four of Paul, John, Ringo and George split, The Beatles are set to make a big comeback and thrill new generations - with the launch next week of a stunning new website AND a remarkable compilation album featuring all of their TWENTY-SEVEN US and UK number ones - entitled appropriately enough '1'.
Beatles fans no longer have to sing the blues. 30 years after the boy band with the bowl haircuts officially split, a new compilation album is being released with all of the bands 27 number one hits.
The first copy of the album 1 was flown to Germany from England by helicopter into Colognes Media Park on Thursday.
The comeback had all the kitsch of Beatles memorabilia, complete with band lookalikes.
The Beatles began their career in 1956 in Liverpool, England as the Quarrymen with John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
They later paired up with George Harrison and Stu Sutcliffe in 1958 changing their name, and eventually settling on The Beatles in 1960.
And it was in Germany - playing the smoky night-clubs of Hamburg that they really started on the road to fame.
Ringo Starr joined the group in 1962, the same year the Beatles reached the UK top 20 with the song, Love Me Do.
The band officially broke up in 1970 with the members persuing solo careers. John Lennon was murdered by a deranged fan in 1980, and the remaining members briefly reunited in 1994-1996 for the creation of three Anthology volumes.
In conjunction with the new release of 1, the Beatles are also launching their official website.
By logging on to www.thebeatles.com fans can take a virtual tour of the 27 Beatle hits that went to Number One in Britain and the United States.
The website goes on line on November 13th, the same day the album hits the store shelves.
"The orders are so large that we don't think that anyone else can compete with this album," said Heinz Canibol, the head of EMI-Electrola in Cologne.
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