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Since 1997, The Beatles has been included in several media-sponsored lists of " best " albums.

On the 40th anniversary of its release, the Vatican newspaper, L ' Osservatore Romano, published a lengthy article which declared that " Forty years later, this album remains a type of magical musical anthology: 30 songs you can go through and listen to at will, certain of finding some pearls that even today remain unparalleled.

" The paper considered the album to be the Beatles ' " creative summit ", comparing it favourably to contemporary music and taking note of the now antiquated equipment used, concluding that " a listening experience like that offered by The Beatles is truly rare.