Beatles Reissues To Include Mini-Docs

The upcoming digitally remastered Beatles catalogue is getting better all the time.

The albums, scheduled for a Sept. 9 release through EMI Music (that's 9/9/9 for all you super fans) will include expanded booklets of original and newly penned liner notes, rare photos, and — on each limited edition initial run CD — a short documentary about the record it accompanies, according to Rollingstone.com

The mini-docs feature the Fab Four and producer Sir George Martin discussing how each album came to be, but the films will not include any studio footage. The Revolver doc, which you can preview here, describes the album's recording process through the voices of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison while archival photos of that time period grace the screen.

In the film, the band describe how 1965's Rubber Soul and 1966's Revolver could have been simply called Volume 1 and Volume 2, reveal the stories behind songs such as "Tomorrow Never Knows" and tell of their experimentation while in the studio. Macca also explains the reasoning behind the album's title.

"We suddenly thought 'What does a record do?' Hey, it revolves, great," he says. "So we called it Revolver."

The Beatles: Rock Band hits stores the same day as the remastered set.