The Beatles Box Set
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| Box set by The Beatles | ||
| Released | November 15, 1988 | |
| Recorded | Abbey Road (mostly) September 4, 1962 - April 1, 1970 |
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| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 9:22:46 | |
| Label | Parlophone/Capitol/Apple BBX2-91302 | |
| Producer(s) | George Martin, Phil Spector | |
| The Beatles chronology | ||
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| Past Masters, Volume Two (1988) |
The Beatles Box Set (1988) |
Live at the BBC (1994) |
The Beatles "Box Set" was the first complete set of original Beatles material released by EMI and Capitol in digital format. Released in 1988, for the first time a music fan could purchase the entire Beatles catalogue digitally formatted in a single set. The box set, available on CD, vinyl, or cassette, included all of the original U.K. releases plus Magical Mystery Tour, which had been released in the United States in 1967 but not released in the UK until 1976 (Magical Mystery Tour had been issued on CD worldwide in 1987, along with the twelve original British Beatles albums), as well as two discs, called Past Masters: Volume One and Past Masters: Volume Two, which featured singles, B-Sides, EP tracks, and foreign releases not found on the other thirteen albums. Although all the original British albums had been previously available in stereo on both vinyl and cassette, the versions of the first four albums included in the boxed set were the digitally remastered mono mixes released on CD in 1987. The individual albums included in the set, with the UK and US release dates and UK and US chart position, are as follows:
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Please Please Me Parlophone Records in UK, Parlophone/Capitol Records in US. (Released in UK: March 22, 1963; Released in US: February 26, 1987) - #1 in UK - I Saw Her Standing There, Misery, Anna (Go to Him), Chains, Boys, Ask Me Why, Please Please Me, Love Me Do (album version), P.S. I Love You, Baby It's You, Do You Want to Know a Secret, A Taste of Honey, There's a Place, Twist and Shout |
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With the Beatles Parlophone in UK, Parlophone/Capitol in US. (UK: November 22, 1963; US: February 26, 1987) - #1 in UK - It Won't Be Long, All I've Got to Do, All My Loving, Don't Bother Me, Little Child, Till There Was You, Please Mr. Postman, Roll Over Beethoven, Hold Me Tight, You Really Got a Hold on Me, I Wanna Be Your Man, Devil in Her Heart, Not a Second Time, Money (That's What I Want) |
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A Hard Day's Night Parlophone in UK, in US. (UK: July 10, 1964; US: February 26, 1987) - #1 in UK - A Hard Day's Night, I Should Have Known Better, If I Fell, I'm Happy Just to Dance With You, And I Love Her, Tell Me Why, Can't Buy Me Love, Any Time At All, I'll Cry Instead, Things We Said Today, When I Get Home, You Can't Do That, I'll Be Back |
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Beatles for Sale Parlophone in UK, Parlophone/Capitol in US. (UK: December 4, 1964; US: February 26, 1987) - #1 in UK - No Reply, I'm a Loser, Baby's in Black, Rock and Roll Music, I'll Follow the Sun, Mr. Moonlight, Medley: Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Eight Days a Week, Words of Love, Honey Don't, Every Little Thing, I Don't Want to Spoil the Party, What You're Doing, Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby |
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Help! Parlophone in UK, Parlophone/Capitol in US. (UK: August 6, 1965; US: April 30, 1987) - #1 in UK - Help!, The Night Before, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, I Need You, Another Girl, You're Going to Lose That Girl, Ticket to Ride, Act Naturally, It's Only Love, You Like Me Too Much, Tell Me What You See, I've Just Seen a Face, Yesterday, Dizzy Miss Lizzie |
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Rubber Soul Parlophone in UK, Parlophone/Capitol in US. (UK: December 3, 1965; US: April 30, 1987) - #1 in UK - Drive My Car, Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), You Won't See Me, Nowhere Man, Think For Yourself, The Word, Michelle, What Goes On, Girl, I'm Looking Through You, In My Life, Wait, If I Needed Someone, Run For Your Life |
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Revolver Parlophone in UK, Parlophone/Capitol in US. (UK: August 5, 1966; US: April 30, 1987) - #1 in UK - Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, I'm Only Sleeping, Love You To, Here, There and Everywhere, Yellow Submarine, She Said She Said, Good Day Sunshine, And Your Bird Can Sing, For No One, Doctor Robert, I Want to Tell You, Got to Get You Into My Life, Tomorrow Never Knows |
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Parlophone in UK, Capitol in US. (UK: June 1, 1967; US: June 2, 1967) - #1 in UK, #1 in US - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, With a Little Help from My Friends, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Getting Better, Fixing a Hole, She's Leaving Home, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!, Within You Without You, When I'm Sixty-Four, Lovely Rita, Good Morning Good Morning, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise), A Day in the Life |
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Magical Mystery Tour Parlophone in UK, Capitol in US. (US: November 26, 1967; UK: November 19, 1976) [sic] - # 1 in US, #31 in UK (as American import) - Magical Mystery Tour, The Fool on the Hill, Flying, Blue Jay Way, Your Mother Should Know, I Am the Walrus, Hello Goodbye, Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Baby You're a Rich Man, All You Need is Love |
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The Beatles ("White Album") Parlophone in UK, Capitol in US.(Note: Album originally released on Apple Records in both the UK and US.) (UK: November 22, 1968; US: November 25, 1968) - #1 in UK, #1 in US - Disc One: Back in the U.S.S.R., Dear Prudence, Glass Onion, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Wild Honey Pie, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Martha My Dear, I'm So Tired, Blackbird, Piggies, Rocky Raccoon, Don't Pass Me By, Why Don't We Do It in the Road?, I Will, Julia - Disc Two: Birthday, Yer Blues, Mother Nature's Son, Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey, Sexy Sadie, Helter Skelter, Long, Long, Long, Revolution 1, Honey Pie, Savoy Truffle, Cry Baby Cry, Revolution 9, Good Night |
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Yellow Submarine Parlophone in UK, Capitol in US. (Note: Album originally released on Apple Records in both the UK and US.) (US: January 13, 1969; UK: January 17, 1969) - #2 in US, #3 in UK - By the Beatles: Yellow Submarine, Only A Northern Song, All Together Now, Hey Bulldog, It's All Too Much, All You Need Is Love - Original film Music Arranged and Orchestrated by George Martin: Pepperland, Sea Of Time, Sea Of Holes, Sea Of Monsters, March Of The Meanies, Pepperland Laid Waste, Yellow Submarine In Pepperland, |
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Abbey Road Parlophone in UK, Capitol in US. (Note: Album originally released on Apple Records in both the UK and US.) (UK: September 26, 1969; US: October 1, 1969) - #1 in UK, #1 in US - Come Together, Something, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Oh! Darling, Octopus's Garden, I Want You (She's So Heavy), Here Comes the Sun, Because, You Never Give Me Your Money, Sun King, Mean Mr. Mustard, Polythene Pam, She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, The End, Her Majesty |
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Let It Be Parlophone in UK, Capitol in US. (Note: Album originally released on Apple Records in both the UK and US.) (UK: May 8, 1970; US: May 18, 1970) - #1 in UK, #1 in US - Two of Us, Dig a Pony, Across the Universe (album version), I Me Mine, Dig It, Let It Be (album version), Maggie Mae, I've Got a Feeling, One After 909, The Long and Winding Road, For You Blue, Get Back (album version) |
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Past Masters, Volume One Parlophone in UK, Parlophone/Capitol in US. (UK: March 7, 1988; US: March 8, 1988) - #49 in UK - Love Me Do (original single version), From Me to You, Thank You Girl, She Loves You, I'll Get You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, This Boy, Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand, Sie Liebt Dich, Long Tall Sally, I Call Your Name, Slow Down, Matchbox, I Feel Fine, She's a Woman, Bad Boy, Yes It Is, I'm Down |
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Past Masters, Volume Two Parlophone in UK, Parlophone/Capitol in US. (UK: March 7, 1988; US: March 8, 1988) - #46 in UK - Day Tripper, We Can Work It Out, Paperback Writer, Rain, Lady Madonna, The Inner Light, Hey Jude, Revolution, Get Back (single version), Don't Let Me Down, The Ballad of John and Yoko, Old Brown Shoe, Across the Universe ("Wildlife" version), Let it Be (single version), You Know my Name (Look Up the Number) |
The collection also includes a soft-cover book by Mark Lewisohn which describes every track in the collection which is encased in a black oak rolltop box.
