I’m leaving out a lot of details. I got a German pressing of GTGYIMLife / Helter Skelter bought when I was 12 on a trip there in 1976. Actually it was no. I believe all of these new boxes were pressed in Germany The U.S. Albums is a box set compilation comprising the remastered American albums released by the Beatles between 1964 and 1970. Hi there! The only exception was the Magical Mystery EP. Paperback Writer / Yellow Submarine would have cost you 6s/8d in 1966, which is about £6.30p in today’s money. [14], Although EMI and its North American counterpart, Capitol Records, were no longer obliged to consult the artists, John Lennon approved of the re-packaged singles. The master tape for version one was apparently destroyed. The Beatles acknowledge they’ve had 17 number ones, so Please Please Me doesn’t count because that would make 18. May we humbly ask that you consider getting “Back to the Egg/London Town” Archives Series out this fall as well? The Singles Collection seven-inch singles box. Don’t agree. I’ve never ordered from French Amazon before – it is way cheaper. Heres what I don’t understand. Disc Two: from We Can Work It Out to Baby You’re a Rich Man I don’t think so, no. So expect these to all be standard 45RPM. They were the bees knees and worth every penny.. As a former fan of The Beatles who one day realised the truth (that they’re the McDonalds of pop music and I never want to eat a Big Mac again), my initial thought was that this was spending two hundred quid on an inferior and much fiddlier version of an album that’s available for 10% of the price. Hope you’re reading and thinking, EMI. Yes, this is true. Kevin from Edinburgh (everyone there voted remain y’know!) Most of the singles has picture from wrong year. Love the box and love the sleeves. [12] During one week in April 1976, the band had an unprecedented 23 entries in the UK top 100 positions. 1985 – Michael Jackson bought the rights from ATV for $47.5 million – outbidding Paul McCartney in the process. “If I Fell” Especially the Yellow Submarine with the extended Ringo intro. £185 doesn’t seem too pricey for such a desirable artifact. At last The Inner Light, the b-side of 1968s Lady Madonna, gets a larger rerelease. Sorry for taking the bait…. I like it but you get the idea? I don’t see the reason to buy the singles if one owns the remastered LPs. Eight Days A Week, Yesterday and The Long and Winding Road? This was in the early 70s, maybe late late 60s and I remember buying a book with all Lennon-McCartney lyrics. 1 A: Ticket To Ride A bit pricey, I admit, for four 45 RPM records, but as a nostalgic, perfectly done Beatles artifact, I thought it was rather worth it at the time. This is a load of twaddle, Apple. Would love to know. Given that the economy of scale of the 1960s singles market has collapsed, and that records now are usually made to much higher specs, I think it’s a reasonable price to expect to pay. “Ob-La-Di” By and large, The Beatles archive has been well curated and given the respect it deserves. So The UK singles Yesterday, Back in.., and Sgt Peppers ( all released well befor Free as a bird and Real Love). 1963 [SLEEVE ART: NORWAY] 1 A: From Me To You 2 B: Thank You Girl That is respectable. Keep up the good work 99% of people love this site ! A rather function-less memento from a by-gone era. this of course will never happen. @The Other Paul; But looking at this again, the premise is satisfying, and their team has obviously put some effort into making this desirable both visually and sonically; I wonder if this might be the benchmark for comprehensive singles sets from the other big hitters (Queen are the first that spring to mind and their own singles box sets a few years ago were a disaster)? thomas solimine – no one is forcing you to buy this. Label: Apple Records – 0602547261717, Universal Music Group International – 0602547261717. Any chance a download will be included with this box? Also Sgt Peppers/A Day in the Life was released in 1978. Good question, Richard – as far as I can explain it, I’ve just lost any sort of passion for their music, despite being a Beatles fanatic in my teens and early 20s. Looks lovely and I’m sure my heart will rule my wallet. $50.00. At best, it can be AAD because a CD always requires a digital master. I opened this on Christmas day and my jaw dropped at how shit it was. https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/the-beatles-the-singles-collection/hnum/9509372, https://www.friktech.com/btls/uk/uk45slv.pdf, Yardbirds aka Roger the Engineer / super deluxe with signed print, Ram On: Tribute album features original Ram musicians and a host of talent, Paul and Linda McCartney’s ‘Ram’ reissued on half-speed mastered vinyl, David Bowie team ‘sorry’ as Brilliant Live Adventures campaign falls short, Level 42 / The Complete Polydor Years 1980-1984 unboxed, Future ‘Terence Trent D’Arby’ reissues to use Sananda Maitreya name, Tom Petty’s Wildflowers & All The Rest 5CD super deluxe available in the UK, Mark King and Mike Lindup talk to SDE about the new Level 42 box set, Neil Young’s After The Gold Rush 50th anniversary set unboxed. Collectible Boxed Set Presents 23 180-Gram Vinyl Singles in Faithfully Reproduced International Picture Sleeves, Exclusive New Double A-Side Single for “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love,” Plus 39-Page Book. Great job as always, Paul, thanks. “Poorly run”??? The EPs aren’t included in The Singles Collection, so no ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ or ‘Long Tall Sally’, for example. Hi, I’ve ordered sgt Pepper and Abbey Road from Amazon France to the U.K. with no problems at all. @Jarmo; No kidding..! Can’t be bothered to get into this kind of argument. Historical Importance ? why the desire for the boring consistency of everything sounding the same ? Why am I being compelled to buy this? 1969 – ATV purchased the rights to Beatles catalog when the Beatles broke up. 2 B: Yes It Is, 1966 [DOUBLE A-SIDE / SLEEVE ART: ARGENTINA] including p&p. But it would be nice to have a CD set with a continuous run of the singles, and no German-language versions. Failing that, you’re stuck with Simple Minds and Texas! It’s a worldwide release that concentrates on what is considered the Beatles 45 ‘canon’ – the 22 UK singles. Therefore I can understand why they were dealt with slightly differently. 63 tracks (175:03). I agree with others who are asking why there is no cd version released. I hope and pray that nobody will ever dare to remix the mono mixes, as they are perfect. Let’s be honest be honest about this, ‘Free As A Bird’ and ‘Real Love’ are not the same as the other 22 singles. ‘Yesterday’ doesn’t really fulfil that criteria (although I know it was a single in the USA at the time). the US versions if youre american the UK if youre english. I thought I had a Yesterday single stacked somewhere. I Feel Fine thru Eleanor Rigby - all in mono. I’ve read the comments about tracking down Beatles 7 inch records at record fairs for way less money. [10] The response coincided with media speculation regarding rival bids from two US promoters for the Beatles to reunite for a satellite concert broadcast. https://www.discogs.com/The-Beatles-US-Singles-Collection/release/12407929 No need to worry, I’m sure that there will be a box of the us 45’s in a year or to. Price was 175 sterling plus 44 sterling shipping. as with the Philippines many weird tracks were used. Thanks Paul for out of the gate reviews on both! This site is not a public forum for posting whatever we want. (that’s £8:50 each)…someone is having a joke. It’s non-inclusion is a minor missed opportunity for Apple. One more little piece of trivia. Required fields are marked *. will be buyng ! Too bad no CD single version is available. also in Portugal there were no singles as the ep was the norm. I am one of those who learned a lot from those lyrics because I knew there were no silly lyrics with that great music. All four records have the large 45 RPM hole, and the small box set comes with a nice fold-out poster and plastic 45 RPM spindle. There is a logic to it. [16], Catalogue numbers and release dates per Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik's All Together Now,[17] Nicholas Schaffner's The Beatles Forever,[18] and Keith Badman's The Beatles Diary Volume 2. Well, if there’s a market for the CD singles, why don’t they use the mono versions and stereo versions of the songs and put them together on the single CD. Mehhh…, Might be a bit boring… From 1962 to 1970, The Beatles released 22 UK singles; of those 44 A and B-side tracks, 29 were not included on the group’s British albums at that time. Where are the other American number ones? So there has been no doubt about the status of Please Please Me for at least 50 years. They never released a mono & stereo version of the same record. Now lets’s wait for the price to drop……. It just muddies the water too much. I hope that this box contains the original dedicated mono mixes. Collection wise, these look fantastic. I’m sure I am in a minority of one but I hate the different styles of picture covers. Live it up and enjoy this stuff..!! Because CDs are a popular physical music format. Get Back/Don’t Let Me Down was warped and off center. I still have a spare $200 with no where to go..! I’d spring for US Singles and US Albums (vinyl) boxes in a heartbeat but not this. Forced to make a choice, I’d part with all my recent Beatles SDE purchases before my 45’s collection. Normally I go for anything Beatles, and although I like the overall design of the ‘Singles Collection,’ I find nothing nostalgic or even attractive about most of the 45 RPM record sleeve art that was chosen. If it’s vinyl, it’s a pass for me. I’m not Scottish, or ‘from Scotland’ in that sense (I’m a Lancastrian by birth, merely spending some time North of the border, hence my posts are ‘from’ Kevin, in Edinburgh), and I’m no seeker of Scottish independence (in case you’re wondering). I couldn’t agree with you more! 1 A: I Feel Fine Yellow Submarine wasn’t the b-side but it was an extra track on the CD single. I’ve got the box from the seventies and as a kid used to stare at the 45 logo when playing the singles which had quite an hypnotic effect! The big $64,000 question is: are these going to be full analog (AAA) pressings or digital->analog (a la the Stereo Albums Vinyl set)? Shop online for The Beatles merchandise, t-shirts, clothing, apparel, posters and accessories. One non warped single was A Hard Day’s Night/Things We Said Today but that crackled a bit at the end of side A. Done it with the Black Parlophone and Apple labels enjoy this stuff..! cash cow milked... 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