The Beatles - Love (EMI B000JK8OYU)

A new album by the Beatles? This is a collection of their best remixed by George Martin and his son Giles for Cirque de Soleil's Las Vegas spectacular, Love. The tracks are not chronological, contain echoes of other Beatles tunes in the transitions between songs, sometimes brilliantly reworked and run together almost seamlessly. Some tracks are stripped right down, others substantially re-mixed, and they bring out aspects of over familiar songs you might not have remembered. It's a bit like a really good cover version of The Beatles by, um, The Beatles. If you are a Beatles fan, this is a must. If you are slightly nostalgic about them but feel sated by 40 years exposure to their repertoire, this may refresh your palate. In the end, however, it is a very high class, beautifully produced soundtrack to a Vegas spectacular. Perhaps that's inevitably the way music which once changed the world gets laid to rest.