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The Beatles Box Set is 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 UK 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 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.
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- ^ As American import
- ^ a b c d e f g h Originally released on Apple Records in both the UK and U.S.
