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1980 box set by the Beatles
The Beatles Box is an eight-record box set of Beatles recordings, initially released on 3 November 1980 by World Records, a mail-order subsidiary of EMI.[2] It was also issued in two formats by Reader’s Digest in New Zealand, Australia and Mexico.[3]
This was the last Beatles release issued during John Lennon’s lifetime.
Track listing[edit]
All songs composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney except where noted
Record 1[edit]
- Side one
- “Love Me Do” (original UK single with Ringo Starr on drums)[3]
- “P.S. I Love You” (mock stereo remix from Please Please Me)
- “I Saw Her Standing There”
- “Please Please Me”
- “Misery”
- “Do You Want to Know a Secret”
- “A Taste of Honey” (Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow)
- “Twist and Shout” (Phil Medley, Bert Russell)
- Side two
- “From Me to You”
- “Thank You Girl” (mono)
- “She Loves You” (mock stereo remix from A Collection of Beatles Oldies)
- “It Won’t Be Long”
- “Please Mr. Postman” (Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman)
- “All My Loving” (hi-hat intro)
- “Roll Over Beethoven” (Chuck Berry)
- “Money (That’s What I Want)” (Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy)
Record 2[edit]
- Side one
- “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
- “This Boy” (mono)
- “Can’t Buy Me Love”
- “You Can’t Do That”
- “A Hard Day’s Night”
- “I Should Have Known Better”
- “If I Fell”
- “And I Love Her” (from US Rarities LP)[3] (alternate version with six-bar ending; originally issued in Germany)
- Side two
- “Things We Said Today”
- “I’ll Be Back”
- “Long Tall Sally” (stereo) (Enotris Johnson, Richard Penniman, Robert Blackwell)
- “I Call Your Name” (stereo)
- “Matchbox” (stereo) (Carl Perkins)
- “Slow Down” (stereo) (Larry Williams)
- “She’s a Woman” (stereo)
- “I Feel Fine” (“whisper” version,[3] first issued on the UK version of 1962–1966)
Record 3[edit]
- Side one
- “Eight Days a Week”
- “No Reply”
- “I’m a Loser”
- “I’ll Follow the Sun”
- “Mr. Moonlight” (Roy Lee Johnson)
- “Every Little Thing”
- “I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party”
- “Kansas City”/”Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!” (Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller / Richard Penniman)
- Side two
- “Ticket to Ride”
- “I’m Down” (stereo)
- “Help!”
- “The Night Before”
- “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”
- “I Need You” (George Harrison)
- “Another Girl”
- “You’re Going to Lose That Girl”
Record 4[edit]
- Side one
- “Yesterday”
- “Act Naturally” (Johnny Russell, Voni Morrison)
- “Tell Me What You See”
- “It’s Only Love”
- “You Like Me Too Much” (George Harrison)
- “I’ve Just Seen a Face”
- “Day Tripper” (US Yesterday and Today mix)
- “We Can Work It Out”
- Side two
- “Michelle”
- “Drive My Car”
- “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”
- “You Won’t See Me”
- “Nowhere Man”
- “Girl”
- “I’m Looking Through You”
- “In My Life”
Record 5[edit]
- Side one
- “Paperback Writer” (US Hey Jude stereo version)
- “Rain”
- “Here, There and Everywhere”
- “Taxman” (George Harrison)
- “I’m Only Sleeping” (US Yesterday and Today stereo version)
- “Good Day Sunshine”
- “Yellow Submarine”
- Side two
- “Eleanor Rigby”
- “And Your Bird Can Sing” (US Yesterday and Today stereo version)
- “For No One”
- “Doctor Robert”
- “Got to Get You into My Life”
- “Penny Lane” (US Rarities edit)[2][3]
- “Strawberry Fields Forever”
Record 6[edit]
- Side one
- “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
- “With a Little Help from My Friends”
- “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”
- “Fixing a Hole”
- “She’s Leaving Home”
- “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!”
- “A Day in the Life” (edited version from 1967–1970)[2]
- Side two
- “When I’m Sixty-Four”
- “Lovely Rita”
- “All You Need Is Love” (mono)
- “Baby, You’re a Rich Man” (German Magical Mystery Tour stereo)
- “Magical Mystery Tour”
- “Your Mother Should Know”
- “The Fool on the Hill”
- “I Am the Walrus” (US Rarities composite)[3]
Record 7[edit]
- Side one
- “Hello, Goodbye”
- “Lady Madonna”
- “Hey Jude”
- “Revolution”
- “Back in the U.S.S.R.”
- “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
- “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (George Harrison)
- Side two
- “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill” (minus the opening flamenco guitar intro)
- “Happiness Is a Warm Gun”
- “Martha My Dear”
- “I’m So Tired”
- “Piggies” (George Harrison)
- “Don’t Pass Me By” (Richard Starkey; mono version)
- “Julia”
- “All Together Now”
Record 8[edit]
- Side one
- “Get Back” (LP version)
- “Don’t Let Me Down”
- “The Ballad of John and Yoko”
- “Across the Universe”
- “For You Blue” (George Harrison)
- “Two of Us”
- “The Long and Winding Road”
- “Let It Be” (LP version)
- Side two
- “Come Together”
- “Something” (George Harrison)
- “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”
- “Octopus’s Garden” (Richard Starkey)
- “Here Comes the Sun” (George Harrison)
- “Because”
- “Golden Slumbers”
- “Carry That Weight”
- “The End”
- “Her Majesty” (preceding pause shorted from 15 to 5 seconds)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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