The Beatles The Singles Collection 23 x 7" Vinyl Singles Limited Edition

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The Beatles - The Singles Collection - Limited Edition. 
23 x 7" Vinyl Singles
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The press release of this item stated that picture sleeves were fairly uncommon in the UK at the time so this new set features an array of artwork for singles that were gathered from 22 countries including Australia, South Africa, France, Norway, Greece and Japan.

The box set also comes with a 40-page book with essays by Beatles historian, Kevin Howlett, and pictures.

The Beatles, 'The Singles Collection' Track Listing

1962 [sleeve art: US]

A: Love Me Do | B: P. S. I Love You

1963 [sleeve art: Italy]

A: Please Please Me | B: Ask Me Why

1963 [sleeve art: Norway]

A: From Me to You | B: Thank You Girl

1963 [sleeve art: Greece]

A: She Loves You | B: I'll Get You

1963 [sleeve art: Chile]

A: I Want to Hold Your Hand | B: This Boy

1964 [sleeve art: Austria]

A: Can't Buy Me Love | B: You Can't Do That

1964 [sleeve art: Holland]

A: A Hard Day's Night | B: Things We Said Today

1964 [sleeve art: Sweden]

A: I Feel Fine | B: She's A Woman

1965 [sleeve art: Spain]

A: Ticket to Ride | B: Yes It Is

1965 [sleeve art: Belgium]

A: Help! | B: I'm Down

1965 [double A-side / sleeve art: France]

A: We Can Work It Out | B: Day Tripper

1966 [sleeve art: Turkey]

A: Paperback Writer | B: Rain

1966 [double A-side / sleeve art: Argentina]

A: Eleanor Rigby | B: Yellow Submarine

1967 [double A-side / sleeve art: Australia]

A: Strawberry Fields Forever | B: Penny Lane

1967 [sleeve art: West Germany]

A: All You Need Is Love | B: Baby, You're a Rich Man

1967 [sleeve art: Mexico]

A: Hello, Goodbye | B: I Am the Walrus

1968 [sleeve art: Japan]

A: Lady Madonna | B: The Inner Light

1968 [sleeve art: South Africa]

A: Hey Jude | B: Revolution

1969 [sleeve art: Denmark]

A: Get Back | B: Don't Let Me Down

1969 [sleeve art: Portugal]

A: The Ballad of John And Yoko | B: Old Brown Shoe

1969 [sleeve art: Israel]

A: Something | B: Come Together

1970 [sleeve art: UK]

A: Let It Be | B: You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)

1995 / 1996 [exclusive double A-side single / sleeve art: worldwide]

A: Free as a Bird | B: Real Love

Overview

There have been seven inch singles collections of The Beatles before but this one beats all! Containing just the officially sanctioned singles the Beatles released during their lifespan plus the two mid-1990s ‘reunion’ tracks as a bonus double A side, all in glorious colour picture sleeves from around the world, this definitely the one to have.

Every single the Fab Four released had something new to offer and in some cases broke new ground. Wailing harmonicas on the first three: “Love Me Do”, Please Please Me” and “From Me To You” to the “Yeah Yeah Yeahs” of “She Loves You” - all uttered a new vibrancy to pop couched in the vocal prowess of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. By the time of “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, four track recording had entered Abbey Road and the band began to spend more time workshopping their songs, honing them for new angles. Less obvious chord changes and massed vocals classified their breakthrough US hit. Was it “I can’t hide” or “I get high” they were singing? Hard to tell with Lennon’s lo-fi rhythm guitar chopping underneath the recording.

1964 saw more advancements - acoustic guitars began to come into mix and they began to make their song intros distinctive too with the massive unclassifiable chord at the start of “A Hard Day’s Night” and the squeal of feedback that brings in “I Feel Fine” which then tumbles into a latin beat from Ringo after Lennon’s cracking riff. The following year saw them break the three minute mark for the first time with the dense and clanging “Ticket To Ride” whilst “Help!” - Lennon’s fourth consecutive A-side saw perhaps his most personal lyric yet married to a happy go lucky backing. Their first double A side was a cracker: “Day Tripper” had a riff to die for as well as it’s early drug allusion. “We Can Work It Out” saw Lennon and McCartney merge two completely different songs together for the greater good with its pumping harmonium and juxtaposing lyrics.

The end of their Beatlemania period saw the group rip roaring through “Paperback Writer” with its saturated guitar tone and electronic echo effects. It’s B-side “Rain” saw them meddling with backward tapes for the first time. They also played it fast and then slowed the tape down for the mixdown giving the song a draggy, murky feel. Another double A side pulled from their ‘Revolver’ album saw “Yellow Submarine” with all its sound effects and perfect vocal from Ringo coupled with Macca’s dark “Eleanor Rigby” punctuated with its staccato string backing arranged by their producer George Martin.

Retiring from touring their first studio bound single was another double A side. Acclaimed by many to be the greatest two sided single released ever: “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane” saw Lennon and McCartney at their best, recorded at the beginning of the sessions which then produced the little known (!) ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ album. Their next single, Lennon’s “All You Need Is Love” was written for and performed during the worlds first satellite TV broadcast in June 1967. “Hello Goodbye” saw out 1967 in a simple, catchy style from McCartney’s pen. Paul was in command for four in row as he also wrote “Lady Madonna”, “Hey Jude” and “Get Back” during the period when The Beatles began to unravel. By 1969 they were still scoring big hits from “The Ballad Of John & Yoko” to George’s first A-side “Something” before they wrapped things up with the appropriate “Let It Be”.

That would be it until 1995 when McCartney, Harrison and Starr reunited to work on a couple of Lennon demos and turn them into proper songs under the name The Beatles. Produced by ELO’s Jeff Lynne, the two songs were a fine epilogue to the biggest band the world had ever seen.