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New wave of Beatlemania in France with Beatles CDs, DVD being sold on newsstands

The French daily newspaper Le Monde is bringing back Beatlemania to France by selling 25 albums and DVDs by the Beatles, one each week, at its newsstands to celebrate the group and its music. The series continues every Thursday through July 9 and is being done in cooperation with Universal Music France. The newspaper also has several special articles and publications about the Beatles either already published or in the works.

The series of CDs begin with the 13 original Beatles albums starting with “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Following that will be the compilations “Past Masters” and “LOVE.” After that will be the three “Beatles Anthology” double CDs and finally the five “The Beatles Anthology” DVDs.

Le Monde is also doing some special editorial features, including adding four pages to its M World magazine each week to let its editors rate each of the band's albums in a once-a-week feature that will run through April.

They've also added a series of articles, all in French, to its website. “Les Beatles, en livres et en films” looks at the Beatles in books and on film. “Entretien avec Richard Lester, cinéaste” features an interview with “A Hard Day's Night” and “Help!” director Richard Lester. “Les Beatles dans « Le Monde »” looks at how the newspaper has covered through group. The article noted the first mention of the group in the newspaper came on Dec. 12, 1963 with Henri Pierri reporting the scene was wild with Beatles fans surrounding their hotel and venue both day and night.

The site also features two articles about the album “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band”: “The Beatles : « Sgt. Pepper's », accords majeurs” (“The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's major chords”), an analysis of the album, and “Les Beatles : les reprises de « Sgt. Pepper’s »” (“The Beatles: reversals of 'Sgt. Pepper's'”) showing videos of cover versions of songs by other artists.

In addition, Le Monde will offer a special Beatles portfolio on Jan. 31. The weekly French TV magazine Télérama printed a special Beatles story in its Jan. 21 edition, the first of a series of weekly features. Courrier International, a Paris-based weekly newspaper in France, also devoted its Jan. 22 issue in a look at how the Beatles have been covered by the world press.

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