Love (2006)

Buy Love on CD, or on Vinyl

Listen to Love on Apple Music or on Spotify

Love (rendered as LOVE on all cover artwork) is a soundtrack compilation album release by The Beatles for the Cirque du Soleil show of the same name. The album was released in November 2006 and features music compiled and remixed for the show. Producer Giles Martin commented that “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.”

George Martin and his son Giles began work on Love after getting permission from Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon, and Olivia Harrison (the latter two representing John Lennon and George Harrison, respectively). They worked from the original master tapes from the Abbey Road studios to produce a medley of Beatles music by remixing favorite songs, such as Harrison’s Within You, Without You being played to the drum-track of Tomorrow Never Knows (Album description via Wikipedia).

iTunes bonus tracks

The iTunes version of LOVE contains two bonus tracks: The Fool On The Hill and Girl.

Extended versions

The DVD Audio and iTunes versions of LOVE contain longer edits of Revolution and Back In The U.S.S.R.

Track list

1. Because
2. Get Back
3. Glass Onion
4. Eleanor Rigby/Julia (transition)
5. I Am The Walrus
6. I Want To Hold Your Hand
7. Drive My Car/The Word/What You’re Doing
8. Gnik Nus
9. Something/Blue Jay Way (transition)
10. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!/I Want You (She’s So Heavy)/Helter Skelter
11. Help!
12. Blackbird/Yesterday
13. Strawberry Fields Forever
14. Within You, Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows
15. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
16. Octopus’s Garden
17. Lady Madonna
18. Here Comes The Sun/The Inner Light (transition)
19. Come Together/Dear Prudence/Cry Baby Cry (transition)
20. Revolution
21. Back In The U.S.S.R.
22. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
23. A Day In The Life
24. Hey Jude
25. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
26. All You Need Is Love

Release history

• Toshiba/EMI TOCP-70200 (CD), released November 15, 2006 (Japan)
• Toshiba/EMI TOCP-70201 (CD / DVD), released November 15, 2006 (Japan)
• Apple/EMI 3798082 / 0946 3 79808 2 8 (CD), released November 20, 2006 (UK)
• Apple/EMI 3798102 / 0946 3 79810 2 3 (CD / DVD), released November 20, 2006 (UK)
• Capitol/Apple 0946 3 79808 2 8 (CD), released November 21, 2006 (US)
• Capitol/Apple 0946 3 79810 2 3 (CD / DVD), released November 21, 2006 (US)

Love 4 track sampler

Love 4 track sampler, back cover