THE BEATLES BOX SET

'''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.

Contents

Album listing

Album listing

Album	Label		Release date		Peak position
	UK	U.S.	UK	U.S.	UK	U.S.
''Please Please Me''	Parlophone	Parlophone/Capitol	March 22, 1963	February 26, 1987	1	–
''With the Beatles''	Parlophone	Parlophone/Capitol	November 22, 1963	February 26, 1987	1	–
''A Hard Day's Night''	Parlophone	Parlophone/Capitol	July 10, 1964	February 26, 1987	1	–
''Beatles for Sale''	Parlophone	Parlophone/Capitol	December 4, 1964	February 26, 1987	1	–
''Help!''	Parlophone	Parlophone/Capitol	August 6, 1965	April 30, 1987	1	–
''Rubber Soul''	Parlophone	Parlophone/Capitol	December 3, 1965	April 30, 1987	1	–
''Revolver''	Parlophone	Parlophone/Capitol	August 5, 1966	April 30, 1987	1	–
''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''	Parlophone	Capitol	June 1, 1967	June 2, 1967	1	1
''Magical Mystery Tour''	Parlophone	Capitol	November 19, 1976	November 26, 1967	31 ★ ★	1
''''The Beatles'' ("White Album") ''	Parlophone ★	Capitol ★	November 22, 1968	November 25, 1968	1	1
''Yellow Submarine''	Parlophone ★	Capitol ★	January 17, 1969	January 13, 1969	3	2
''Abbey Road''	Parlophone ★	Capitol ★	September 26, 1969	October 1, 1969	1	1
''Let It Be''	Parlophone ★	Capitol ★	May 8, 1970	May 18, 1970	1	1
''Past Masters, Volume One''	Parlophone	Parlophone/Capitol	March 7, 1988	March 8, 1988	49	–
''Past Masters, Volume Two''	Parlophone	Parlophone/Capitol	March 7, 1988	March 8, 1988	46	–

Notes:


★ Originally released on Apple Records in both the UK and U.S.


★
★ As American import.