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The Beatles

MUSIC

Influential British rock band, formed 1957 as The Quarrymen, disbanded 1970.

Official Website:
http://www.beatles.com/

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Pete Best
Drummer
24-Nov-1941   Original drummer for The Beatles
George Harrison
Musician
25-Feb-1943 29-Nov-2001 Beatle
John Lennon
Musician
9-Oct-1940 8-Dec-1980 Beatle
George Martin
Music Producer
3-Jan-1926   Beatles producer
Paul McCartney
Musician
18-Jun-1942   Beatle
Yoko Ono
Artist
18-Feb-1933   Impenetrable musician, wife of John Lennon
Billy Preston
Singer/Songwriter
9-Sep-1946 6-Jun-2006 You Are So Beautiful
Ringo Starr
Drummer
7-Jul-1940   Beatle
Stuart Sutcliffe
Musician
23-Jun-1940 10-Apr-1962 Briefly a Beatle

DISCOGRAPHY

Love Me Do (1962, Parlophone (UK))
1 Love Me Do
2 P.S. I Love You

Please Please Me (1963, Parlophone (UK))
1 Please Please Me
2 Ask Me Why

Please Please Me (1963, Parlophone (UK))
1 I Saw Her Standing There
2 Misery
3 Anna (Go To Him) (Arthur Alexander cover)
4 Chains (The Cookies cover)
5 Boys (The Shirelles cover)
6 Ask Me Why
7 Please Please Me
8 Love Me Do
9 P.S. I Love You
10 Baby It's You (The Shirelles cover)
11 Do You Want To Know A Secret
12 A Taste Of Honey (Bobby Scott and Combo cover)
13 There's A Place
14 Twist And Shout (The Isley Brothers cover)

From Me To You (1963, Parlophone (UK))
1 From Me To You
2 Thank You Girl

Twist And Shout (1963, Parlophone (UK))
1 Twist And Shout (The Isley Brothers cover)
2 A Taste Of Honey (Bobby Scott and Combo cover)
3 Do You Want To Know A Secret
4 There's A Place

She Loves You (1963, Parlophone (UK))
1 She Loves You
2 I'll Get You

The Beatles' Hits (1963, Parlophone (UK))
1 From Me To You
2 Thank You Girl
3 Please Please Me
4 Love Me Do

No. 1 (1963, Parlophone (UK))
1 I Saw Her Standing There
2 Misery
3 Anna (Go To Him) (Arthur Alexander cover)
4 Chains (The Cookies cover)

With The Beatles (1963, Parlophone (UK))
1 It Won't Be Long
2 All I Want To Do
3 All My Loving
4 Don't Bother Me
5 Little Child
6 Till There Was You (from the musical The Music Man)
7 Please Mr. Postman (The Marvelettes cover)
8 Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry cover)
9 Hold Me Tight
10 You Really Got A Hold On Me (Smokey Robinson cover)
11 I Wanna Be Your Man
12 Devil In Her Heart (The Donays cover)
13 Not A Second Time
14 Money (That's What I Want) (Barrett Strong cover)

I Want To Hold Your Hand (1963, Parlophone (UK))
1 I Want To Hold Your Hand
2 This Boy

Introducing The Beatles (1964, Vee-Jay (US))

On the first issue of this album the tracks were identical to Please Please Me, except that Please Please Me and Ask Me Why were missing. On the second issue (released a month later) the two above tracks were included, but Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You were missing.

I Want To Hold Your Hand (1964, Capitol (US))
1 I Want To Hold Your Hand
2 I Saw Her Standing There

Meet The Beatles! (1964, Capitol (US))
1 I Want To Hold Your Hand
2 I Saw Her Standing There
3 This Boy
4 It Won't Be Long
5 All I've Got To Do
6 All My Loving
7 Don't Bother Me
8 Little Child
9 Till There Was You (cover from the musical The Music Man)
10 Hold Me Tight
11 I Wanna Be Your Man
12 Not A Second Time

All My Loving (1964, Parlophone (UK))
1 All My Loving
2 Ask Me Why
3 Money (That's What I Want) (Barrett Strong cover)
4 P.S. I Love You

Can't Buy Me Love (1964, Parlophone (UK)/Capitol (US))
1 Can't Buy Me Love
2 You Can't Do That

The Beatles' Second Album (1964, Capitol (US))
1 Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry cover)
2 Thank You Girl
3 You Really Got A Hold On Me (Smokey Robinson cover)
4 Devil In Her Heart (The Donays cover)
5 Money (That's What I Want) (Barrett Strong cover)
6 You Can't Do That
7 Long Tall Sally (Little Richard cover)
8 I Call Your Name
9 Please Mr. Postman (The Marvelettes cover)
10 I'll Get You
11 She Loves You

Four By The Beatles (1964, Capitol (US))
1 Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry cover)
2 All My Loving
3 This Boy
4 Please Mr. Postman (The Marvelettes cover)

Long Tall Sally (1964, Parlophone (UK))
1 Long Tall Sally (Little Richard cover)
2 I Call Your Name
3 Slow Down (Larry Williams cover)
4 Matchbox (Carl Perkins cover)

A Hard Day's Night (1964, Parlophone (UK), United Artists (US))
1 A Hard Day's Night
2 I Should Have Known Better
3 If I Fell
4 I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
5 And I Love Her
6 Tell Me Why
7 Can't Buy Me Love
8 Any Time At All
9 I'll Cry Instead
10 Things We Said Today
11 When I Get Home
12 You Can't Do That
13 I'll Be Back

The U.S. version differed from the Parlophone issue in the absence of Any Time At All, Things We Said Today, When I Get Home, You Can't Do That, and I'll Be Back, and the inclusion of 4 orchestral versions of Beatle songs arranged by George Martin for the A Hard Day's Night film.

A Hard Day's Night (1964, Parlophone (UK))
1 A Hard Day's Night
2 Things We Said Today

A Hard Day's Night (1964, Capitol (US))
1 A Hard Day's Night
2 I Should Have Known Better

I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (1964, Capitol (US))
1 I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
2 I'll Cry Instead

And I Love Her (1964, Capitol (US))
1 And I Love Her
2 If I Fell

Something New (1964, Capitol (US))
1 I'll Cry Instead
2 Things We Said Today
3 Any Time At All
4 When I Get Home
5 Slow Down (Larry Williams cover)
6 Matchbox (Carl Perkins cover)
7 Tell Me Why
8 And I Love Her
9 I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
10 If I Fell
11 Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand

Match Box (1964, Capitol (US))
1 Match Box (Carl Perkins cover)
2 Slow Down (Larry Williams cover)

Extracts From The Film "A Hard Days Night" (1964, Parlophone (UK))
1 I Should Have Known Better
2 If I Fell
3 Tell Me Why
4 And I Love Her

Extracts From The Album "A Hard Days Night" (1964, Parlophone (UK))
1 Anytime At All
2 I'll Cry Instead
3 Things We Said Today
4 When I Get Home

Beatles For Sale (1964, Parlophone (UK))
1 No Reply
2 I'm A Loser
3 Baby's In Black
4 Rock And Roll Music (Chuck Berry cover)
5 I'll Follow The Sun
6 Mr. Moonlight (Roy Lee Johnson cover)
7 Kansas City (Wilbert Harrison cover)
8 Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! (Little Richard cover)
9 Eight Days A Week
10 Words Of Love (Buddy Holly cover)
11 Honey Don't (Carl Perkins cover)
12 Every Little Thing
13 I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
14 What You're Doing
15 Everbody's Trying To Be My Baby (Carl Perkins cover)

The Beatles' Story (1964, Capitol (US))
Disc 1
1 On Stage With the Beatles
2 How Beatlemania Began
3 Beatlemania In Action
4 The Man Behind The Beatles - Brian Epstein
5 John Lennon
6 Who's A Millionaire?
7 Beatles Will Be Beatles
8 The Man Behind The Music - George Martin
9 George Harrison
Disc 2
1 A Hard Day's Night - Their First Movie
2 Paul McCartney
3 Sneaky Haircuts And More About Paul
4 The Beatles Look At Life
5 'Victims' Of Beatlemania
6 Beatle Medley
7 Ringo Starr
8 Liverpool And All The World!

A collection of interviews with the Beatles and their associates.

I Feel Fine (1964, Parlophone (UK)/Capitol (US))
1 I Feel Fine
2 She's A Woman

Beatles '65 (1964, Capitol (US))
1 No Reply
2 I'm A Loser
3 Baby's In Black
4 Rock And Roll Music (Chuck Berry cover)
5 I'll Follow The Sun
6 Mr. Moonlight (Roy Lee Johnson cover)
7 Honey Don't (Carl Perkins cover)
8 I'll Be Back
9 She's A Woman
10 I Feel Fine
11 Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby (Carl Perkins cover)

4 By The Beatles (1965, Capitol (US))
1 Honey Don't (Carl Perkins cover)
2 I'm A Loser
3 Mr. Moonlight (Roy Lee Johnson cover)
4 Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby (Carl Perkins cover)

Eight Days A Week (1965, Capitol (US))
1 Eight Days A Week
2 I Don't Want To Spoil The Party

The Early Beatles (1965, Capitol (US))

This album was yet another re-issue of Please Please Me, this time minus I Saw Her Standing There, Thank You Girl, Misery, There's A Place, and From Me To You.

Beatles For Sale (1965, Parlophone)
1 No Reply
2 I'm A Loser
3 Rock And Roll Music (Chuck Berry cover)
4 Eight Days A Week

Ticket To Ride (1965, Parlophone (UK)/Capitol (US))
1 Ticket To Ride
2 Yes It Is

Beatles For Sale, No. 2 (1965, Parlophone)
1 I'll Follow The Sun
2 Baby's In Black
3 Words Of Love (Buddy Holly cover)
4 I Don't Want To Spoil The Party

Beatles VI (1965, Capitol (US))
1 Kansas City (Wilbert Harrison cover)
2 Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! (Little Richard cover)
3 Eight Days A Week
4 You Like Me Too Much
5 Bad Boy (Larry Williams cover)
6 I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
7 Words Of Love (Buddy Holly cover)
8 What You're Doing
9 Yes It Is
10 Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Larry Williams cover)
11 Tell Me What You See
12 Every Little Thing

Help! (1965, Parlophone (UK)/Capitol (US))
1 Help!
2 I'm Down

Help! (1965, Parlophone (UK))
1 Help!
2 The Night Before
3 You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
4 I Need You
5 Another Girl
6 You're Going To Lose That Girl
7 Ticket To Ride
8 Act Naturally (Buck Owens cover)
9 It's Only Love
10 You Like Me Too Much
11 Tell Me What You See
12 I've Just Seen A Face
13 Yesterday
14 Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Larry Williams cover)

Help! (1965, Capitol (US))

The U.S. version of this album lacked the last seven songs on the Parlophone release, but included 6 George Martin orchestral interludes created for the film Help!.

Yesterday (1965, Capitol (US))
1 Yesterday
2 Act Naturally

Rubber Soul (1965, Parlophone (UK))
1 Drive My Car
2 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
3 You Won't See Me
4 Nowhere Man
5 Think For Yourself
6 The Word
7 Michelle
8 What Goes On
9 Girl
10 I'm Looking Through You
11 In My Life
12 Wait
13 If I Needed Someone
14 Run For Your Life

Rubber Soul (1965, Capitol (US))

The U.S. Version of this release lacked Drive My Car, Nowhere Man, What Goes On, and If I Needed Someone, but added I've Just Seen A Face and It's Only Love

We Can Work It Out (1965, Parlophone (UK), Capitol (US))
1 We Can Work It Out
2 Day Tripper

The Beatles' Million Sellers (1965, Parlophone (UK))
1 She Loves You
2 I Want To Hold Your Hand
3 Can't Buy Me Love
4 I Feel Fine

Nowhere Man (1966, Capitol (US))
1 Nowhere Man
2 What Goes On

Yesterday (1966, Parlophone (UK))
1 Yesterday
2 Act Naturally
3 You Like Me Too Much
4 It's Only Love

Paperback Writer (1966, Parlophone (UK)/Capitol (US))
1 Paperback Writer
2 Rain

Yesterday... And Today (1966, Capitol (US))
1 Drive My Car
2 I'm Only Sleeping
3 Nowhere Man
4 Doctor Robert
5 Yesterday
6 Act Naturally (Buck Owens cover)
7 And Your Bird Can Sing
8 If I Needed Someone
9 We Can Work It Out
10 What Goes On
11 Day Tripper

The original issue of this album featured the notorious "butcher cover".

Nowhere Man (1966, Parlophone)
1 Nowhere Man
2 Drive My Car
3 Michelle
4 You Won't See Me

Yellow Submarine (1966, Parlophone (UK)/Capitol (US))
1 Yellow Submarine
2 Eleanor Rigby

Revolver (1966, Parlophone (UK))
1 Taxman
2 Eleanor Rigby
3 I'm Only Sleeping
4 Love You To
5 Here, There And Everywhere
6 Yellow Submarine
7 She Said She Said
8 Good Day Sunshine
9 And Your Bird Can Sing
10 For No One
11 Doctor Robert
12 I Want To Tell You
13 Got To Get You Into My Life
14 Tomorrow Never Knows

Revolver (1966, Capitol (US))

The U.S. Version of this release lacked I'm Only Sleeping, And Your Bird Can Sing, and Doctor Robert.

A Collection Of Beatles Oldies (1966, Parlophone (UK))
1 She Loves You
2 From Me To You
3 We Can Work It Out
4 Help!
5 Michelle
6 Yesterday
7 I Feel Fine
8 Yellow Submarine
9 Can't Buy Me Love
10 Bad Boy
11 Day Tripper
12 A Hard Day's Night
13 Ticket To Ride
14 Paperback Writer
15 Eleanor Rigby
16 I Want To Hold Your Hand

Stawberry Field Forever (1967, Parlophone (UK)/Capitol (US))
1 Stawberry Field Forever
2 Penny Lane

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967, Parlophone (UK), Capitol (US))
1 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2 With A Little Help From My Friends
3 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4 Getting Better
5 Fixing A Hole
6 She's Leaving Home
7 Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
8 Within You Without You
9 When I'm Sixty-Four
10 Lovely Rita
11 Good Morning Good Morning
12 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)
13 A Day In The Life

All You Need Is Love (1967, Parlophone (UK)/Capitol (US))
1 All You Need Is Love
2 Baby, You're A Rich Man

Hello, Goodbye (1967, Parlophone (UK)/Capitol (US))
1 Hello, Goodbye
2 I Am The Walrus

Magical Mystery Tour (1967, Capitol (US))
1 Magical Mystery Tour
2 The Fool On The Hill
3 Flying
4 Blue Jay Way
5 Your Mother Should Know
6 I Am The Walrus
7 Hello, Goodbye
8 Strawberry Fields Forever
9 Penny Lane
10 Baby, You're A Rich Man
11 All You Need Is Love

Released 1976 in the UK on Parlophone.

Magical Mystery Tour (1967, Parlophone (UK))
Disc 1
1 Magical Mystery Tour
2 Your Mother Should Know
3 I Am The Walrus
Disc 2
1 The Fool On The Hill
2 Flying
3 Blue Jay Way

Lady Madonna (1968, Parlophone (UK)/Capitol (US))
1 Lady Madonna
2 The Inner Light

Hey Jude (1968, Apple)
1 Hey Jude
2 Revolution

The Beatles ('The White Album') (1968, Apple)
1 Back In The USSR
2 Dear Prudence
3 Glass Onion
4 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
5 Wild Honey Pie
6 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
7 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
8 Happiness Is A Warm Gun
9 Martha My Dear
10 I'm So Tired
11 Blackbird
12 Piggies
13 Rocky Raccoon
14 Don't Pass Me By
15 Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
16 I Will
17 Julia
18 Birthday
19 Yer Blues
20 Mother Nature's Son
21 Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
22 Sexy Sadie
23 Helter Skelter
24 Long, Long, Long
25 Revolution 1
26 Honey Pie
27 Savoy Truffle
28 Cry Baby Cry
29 Revolution 9
30 Good Night

Yellow Submarine (1969, Apple)
1 Yellow Submarine
2 Only A Northern Song
3 All Together Now
4 Hey Bulldog
5 It's All Too Much
6 All You Need Is Love
7 Pepperland
8 Sea Of Time
9 Sea Of Holes
10 Sea Of Monsters
11 March Of The Meanies
12 Pepperland Laid Waste
13 Yellow Submarine In Pepperland

Tracks 7-13 are George Martin-composed orchestral interludes from the film Yellow Submarine. Reissued in 1999 in a digitally remastered version with a different track listing.

Get Back (1969, Apple)
1 Get Back
2 Don't Let Me Down

The Ballad Of John And Yoko (1969, Apple)
1 The Ballad Of John And Yoko
2 Old Brown Shoe

Abbey Road (1969, Apple)
1 Come Together
2 Something
3 Maxwell's Silver Hammer
4 Oh! Darling
5 Octopus's Garden
6 I Want You (She's So Heavy)
7 Here Comes The Sun
8 Because
9 You Never Give Me Your Money
10 Sun King
11 Mean Mr. Mustard
12 Polythene Pam
13 She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
14 Golden Slumbers (traditional song)
15 Carry That Weight
16 The End
17 Her Majesty

Something (1969, Apple)
1 Something
2 Come Together

Hey Jude (1970, Apple (US only))
1 Can't Buy Me Love
2 I Should Have Known Better
3 Paperback Writer
4 Rain
5 Lady Madonna
6 Revolution
7 Hey Jude
8 Old Brown Shoe
9 Don't Let Me Down
10 The Ballad Of John And Yoko

Released 1979 in the UK on Parlophone.

Let It Be (1970, Apple)
1 Let It Be
2 You Know My Name (Look Up My Number)

The Long And Winding Road (1970, Apple)
1 The Long And Winding Road
2 For You Blue

Let It Be (1970, Apple)
1 Two Of Us
2 Dig A Pony
3 Across The Universe
4 I Me Mine
5 Dig It
6 Let It Be
7 Maggie Mae (traditional song)
8 I've Got A Feeling
9 One After 909
10 The Long And Winding Road
11 For You Blue
12 Get Back

The Beatles 1962-1966 (1973, Apple)
Disc 1
1 Love Me Do
2 Please Please Me
3 From Me To You
4 She Loves You
5 I Want To Hold Your Hand
6 All My Loving
7 Can't Buy Me Love
8 A Hard Day's Night
9 And I Love Her
10 Eight Days A Week
11 I Feel Fine
12 Ticket To Ride
13 Yesterday
Disc 2
1 Help!
2 You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
3 We Can Work It Out
4 Day Tripper
5 Drive My Car
6 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
7 Nowehere Man
8 Michelle
9 In My Life
10 Girl
11 Paperback Writer
12 Eleanor Rigby
13 Yellow Submarine

The Beatles 1967-1970 (1973, Apple)
Disc 1
1 Strawberry Field Forever
2 Penny Lane
3 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4 With A Little Help From My Friends
5 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
6 A Day In The Life
7 All You Need Is Love
8 I Am The Walrus
9 Hello Goodbye
10 Fool On The Hill
11 Magical Mystery Tour
12 Lady Madonna
13 Hey Jude
14 Revolution
Disc 2
1 Back In The USSR
2 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
3 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
4 Get Back
5 Don't Let Me Down
6 The Ballad Of John And Yoko
7 Old Brown Shoe
8 Here Comes The Sun
9 Come Together
10 Something
11 Octopus's Garden
12 Let It Be
13 Across The Universe
14 The Long And Winding Road

Rock 'N' Roll Music (1976, Parlophone (UK)/Capitol (US))
Disc 1
1 Twist And Shout (The Isley Brothers cover)
2 I Saw Her Standing There
3 You Can't Do That
4 I Wanna Be Your Man
5 I Call Your Name
6 Boys (The Shirelles cover)
7 Long Tall Sally (Little Richard cover)
8 Rock And Roll Music (Chuck Berry cover)
9 Slow Down (Larry Williams cover)
10 Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! (Wilbert Harrison cover/Little Richard cover)
11 Money (That's What I Want) (Barrett Strong cover)
12 Bad Boy (Larry Williams cover)
13 Matchbox (Carl Perkins cover)
14 Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry cover)
Disc 2
1 Dizzy Miss Lizzie (Larry Williams cover)
2 Anytime At All
3 Drive My Car
4 Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby (Carl Perkins cover)
5 The Night Before
6 I'm Down
7 Revolution
8 Back In The USSR
9 Helter Skelter
10 Taxman
11 Got To Get You Into My Life
12 Hey Bulldog
13 Birthday
14 Get Back

The original version of the record featured new George Martin mixes of many of the tracks. Reissued in 1980 as two separate albums: Rock 'n' Roll Music, Volume 1 and Rock 'n' Roll Music, Volume 2. The British reissues replaced the new mixes with the original versions of the songs.

The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl (1977, Parolophone (UK), Capitol (US))
1 Twist And Shout (The Isley Brothers cover)
2 She's A Woman
3 Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Larry Williams cover)
4 Ticket To Ride
5 Can't Buy Me Love
6 Things We Said Today
7 Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry cover)
8 Boys (The Shirelles cover)
9 A Hard Day's Night
10 Help!
11 All My Loving
12 She Loves You
13 Long Tall Sally (Little Richard cover)

Live! At The Star-Club In Hamburg, Germany; 1962 (1977, Lingasong)
1 Introduction/I Saw Her Standing There
2 Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry cover)
3 Hippy Hippy Shake (Chan Romero cover)
4 Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry cover)
5 Lend Me Your Comb (Carl Perkins cover)
6 Your Feet's Too Big (Fats Waller cover)
7 Twist And Shout (The Isley Brothers cover)
8 Mr. Moonlight (Roy Lee Johnson cover)
9 A Taste Of Honey (Bobby Scott and Combo cover)
10 Besame Mucho (Consuelo Vel�zquez cover)
11 Reminiscing (King Curtis cover)
12 Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey (Wilbert Harrison cover/Little Richard cover)
13 Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves On A Tree) (Eddie Fontaine cover)
14 To Know Her Is To Love Her (The Teddy Bears cover)
15 Little Queenie (Chuck Berry cover)
16 Falling In Love Again (Frederick Hollander cover)
17 Ask Me Why
18 Be-Bop-A-Lula (Gene Vincent cover, with Horst Fascher)
19 Hallelujah, I Love Her So (Ray Charles cover, with Horst Fascher)
20 Red Sails In The Sunset (from the musical Provincetown Follies)
21 Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby (Carl Perkins cover)
22 Matchbox (Carl Perkins cover)
23 Im Talking About You (Chuck Berry cover)
24 Shimmy Shimmy (Shimmy Like Kate) (The Olympics cover)
25 Long Tall Sally (Little Richard cover)
26 I Remember You (Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra cover)
27 Where Have You Been All My Life? (Arthur Alexander cover)
28 Till There Was You (from the musical The Music Man)
29 Sheila (Tommy Roe cover)
30 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You) (Roy Hamilton cover)

Love Songs (1977, Parlophone(UK)/Capitol (US))
Disc 1
1 Yesterday
2 I'll Follow The Sun
3 I Need You
4 Girl
5 In My Life
6 Words Of Love
7 Here, There And Everywhere
8 Something
9 And I Love Her
10 If I Fell
11 I'll Be Back
12 Tell Me What You See
13 Yes It Is
Disc 2
1 Michelle
2 It's Only Love
3 You're Gonna Lose That Girl
4 Every Little Thing
5 For No One
6 She's Leaving Home
7 The Long And Winding Road
8 This Boy
9 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
10 You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
11 I Will
12 P.S. I Love You

The Beatles Collection (box set) (1978, Parlophone (UK)/Capitol (US))

A 14 record set including all of the band's original releases and an extra disc of rare tracks: Please Please Me, With The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles For Sale, Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles ("The White Album"), Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, Let It Be and Rarities. The American version issued in 1979 was limited to 3000 copies and included the American version of Rarities.

Rarities (1978, Parlophone (UK))
Disc 1
1 Across The Universe ("Wildlife" version)
2 Yes It Is
3 This Boy
4 The Inner Light
5 I'll Get You
6 Thank You Girl
7 Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand (I Want To Hold Your Hand)
8 You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
9 Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)
Disc 2
1 Rain
2 She's A Woman
3 Matchbox (Carl Perkins cover)
4 I Call Your Name
5 Bad Boy (Larry Williams cover)
6 Slow Down (Larry Williams cover)
7 I'm Down
8 Long Tall Sally (Little Richard cover)

Originally released as part of UK version of The Beatles Collection boxset; issued seperately in 1979.

Rarities (1980, Capitol (US))
1 Love Me Do (original version)
2 Misery
3 There's A Place
4 Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)
5 And I Love Her (alternate version)
6 Help! (single mix)
7 I'm Only Sleeping (UK album mix)
8 I Am The Walrus (new version)
9 Penny Lane (promo version)
10 Helter Skelter (mono version)
11 Don't Pass Me By (mono version)
12 The Inner Light
13 Across The Universe ("Wildlife" version)
14 You Know My Name (Look Up My Number)
15 Sgt. Pepper Inner Groove

Originally released as part of US version of The Beatles Collection boxset; issued seperately in 1980.

Ballads (1980, Parlophone (UK))
1 Yesterday
2 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
3 Do You Want To Know A Secret?
4 For No One
5 Michelle
6 Nowhere Man
7 You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
8 Across The Universe ("Wildlife" version)
9 All My Loving
10 Hey Jude
11 Something
12 The Fool On the Hill
13 Till There Was You (from the musical The Music Man)
14 The Long And Winding Road
15 Here Comes The Sun
16 Blackbird
17 And I Love Her
18 She's Leaving Home
19 Here, There And Everywhere
20 Let It Be

Reel Music (1982, Parlophone (UK)/Capitol (US))
1 A Hard Day's Night
2 I Should Have Known Better
3 Can't Buy Me Love
4 And I Love Her
5 Help!
6 You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
7 Ticket To Ride
8 Magical Mystery Tour
9 I Am The Walrus
10 Yellow Submarine
11 All You Need Is Love
12 Let It Be
13 Get Back
14 The Long And Winding Road

20 Greatest Hits (1982, Capitol (US))
1 She Loves You
2 Love Me Do
3 I Want To Hold Your Hand
4 Can't Buy Me Love
5 A Hard Day's Night
6 I Feel Fine
7 Eight Days A Week
8 Ticket To Ride
9 Help!
10 Yesterday
11 We Can Work It Out
12 Paperback Writer
13 Penny Lane
14 All You Need Is Love
15 Hello, Goodbye
16 Hey Jude
17 Get Back
18 Come Together
19 Let It Be
20 The Long And Winding Road

20 Greatest Hits (1982, Parlophone (UK))
1 Love Me Do
2 From Me To You
3 She Loves You
4 I Want To Hold Your Hand
5 Can't Buy Me Love
6 A Hard Day's Night
7 I Feel Fine
8 Ticket To Ride
9 Help!
10 Day Tripper
11 We Can Work It Out
12 Paperback Writer
13 Yellow Submarine
14 Eleanor Rigby
15 All You Need Is Love
16 Hello, Goodbye
17 Lady Madonna
18 Hey Jude
19 Get Back
20 The Ballad Of John And Yoko

Live at the BBC (1994, Apple (UK), Capitol (US))
1 Beatles Greetings (spoken)
2 From Us to You
3 Riding on a Bus (spoken)
4 I Got a Woman (Ray Charles cover)
5 Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry cover)
6 Keep Your Hands Off My Baby (Little Eva cover)
7 I'll Be on My Way
8 Young Blood (The Coasters cover)
9 A Shot of Rhythm And Blues (Arthur Alexander cover)
10 Sure to Fall (In Love With You) (Carl Perkins cover)
11 Some Other Guy (Ritchie Barrett cover)
12 Thank You Girl
13 She La La La La! (spoken)
14 Baby, It's You (The Shirelles cover)
15 That's All Right (Mama) (Elvis Presley cover)
16 Carol (Chuck Berry cover)
17 Soldier of Love (Arthur Alexander cover)
18 A Little Rhyme (spoken)
19 Clarabella (The Jodimars cover)
20 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You) (Elvis Presley cover)
21 Crying, Waiting, Hoping (Buddy Holly cover)
22 Dear Wack! (spoken)
23 You Really Got a Hold on Me (Smokey Robinson cover)
24 To Know Her Is to Love Her (The Teddy Bears cover)
25 A Taste of Honey (Tony Bennett cover)
26 Long Tall Sally (Little Richard cover)
27 I Saw Her Standing There
28 The Honeymoon Song (Marino Marini and his Quartet band)
29 Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry cover)
30 Memphis, Tennessee (Chuck Berry cover)
31 Lucille (Little Richard cover)
32 Can't Buy Me Love
33 From Fluff to You (spoken)
34 Till There Was You (cover from the musical The Music Man)
35 Crinsk Dee Night (spoken)
36 A Hard Days Night
37 Have a Banana! (spoken)
38 I Wanna Be Your Man
40 Just a Rumour (spoken)
41 Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry cover)
42 All My Loving
43 Things We Said Today
44 She's a Woman
45 Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry cover)
46 1822! (speech)
47 Lonesome Tears in My Eyes (The Johnny Burnett Trio cover)
48 Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves On The Trees) (Eddie Fontaine cover)
49 The Hippy Hippy Shake (Chan Romero cover)
50 Glad All Over (Carl Perkins cover)
51 I Just Don't Understand (Ann-Margret cover)
52 So How Come (No One Loves Me) (The Everly Brothers cover)
53 I Feel Fine
54 I'm a Loser
55 Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby (Carl Perkins cover)
56 Rock and Roll Music (Chuck Berry cover)
57 Ticket to Ride
58 Dizzy Miss Lizzie (Larry Williams cover)
59 Kansas City (Wilbert Harrison cover)
60 Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! (Little Richard cover)
61 Set Fire to That Lot! (spoken)
62 Matchbox (Carl Perkins cover)
63 I Forgot to Remeber To Forget (Elvis Presley cover)
64 Love These Goon Shows (spoken)
65 I Got to Find My Baby (Chuck Berry cover)
66 Ooh! My Soul (Little Richard cover)
67 Ooh! My Arms (spoken)
68 Don't Ever Change (The Crickets cover)
69 Slow Down (Larry Williams cover)
70 Honey Don't (Carl Perkins cover)
71 Love Me Do

Anthology 1 (1995, Apple (UK), Capitol (US))
1 Free As A Bird
2 "We Were Four Guys..." (spoken)
3 That'll Be The Day (Buddy Holly cover)
4 In Spite Of All The Danger
5 "Sometimes I'd Borrow..." (spoken)
6 Hallelujah, I Love Her So (Ray Charles cover)
7 You'll Be Mine
8 Cayenne
9 "First Of All..." (spoken)
10 My Bonnie (traditional song)
11 Ain't She Sweet (Gene Vincent cover (adapted from a 1920's standard))
12 Cry For A Shadow
13 "Brian Was A Beautiful Guy..." (spoken)
14 "I Secured Them An Audition..." (spoken)
15 Searchin' (The Coasters cover)
16 Three Cool Cats (The Coasters cover)
17 The Shiek Of Araby (cover from the 1922 Broadway revue Make It Snappy)
18 Like Dreamers Do
19 Hello Little Girl
20 "Well, The Recording Test..." (spoken)
21 Besame Mucho (Jimmy Dorsey cover (adapted from The Nightingale Aria))
22 Love Me Do
23 How Do You Do It
24 Please Please Me
25 One After 909 (sequence)
26 One After 909 (complete)
27 Lend Me Your Comb (Carl Perkins cover)
28 I'll Get You
29 "We Were Performers..." (spoken)
30 I Saw Her Standing There (live)
31 From Me To You (live)
32 Money (That's What I Want) (live) (Barrett Strong cover)
33 You Really Got A Hold On Me (live) (Smokey Robinson cover)
34 Roll Over Beethoven (live) (Chuck Berry cover)
35 She Loves You (live)
36 Till There Was You (live) (cover from the musical The Music Man)
37 Twist And Shout (live) (The Isley Brothers cover)
38 This Boy
39 I Want To Hold Your Hand
40 "Boys, What I Was Thinkin..." (spoken)
41 Moonlight Bay (Billy Murray cover)
42 Can't Buy Me Love
43 All My Loving
44 You Can't Do That
45 And I Love Her
46 A Hard Day's Night
47 I Wanna Be Your Man
48 Long Tall Sally (Little Richard cover)
49 Boys (The Shirelles cover)
50 Shout (The Isley Brothers cover)
51 I'll Be Back (take 2)
52 I'll Be Back (take 3)
53 You Know What To Do
54 No Reply (demo)
55 Mr. Moonlight (Roy Lee Johnson cover)
56 Leave My Kitten Alone (Little Willie John cover)
57 No Reply
58 Eight Days A Week (sequence)
59 Eight Days A Week (complete)
60 Kansas City (Wilbert Harrison cover)
61 Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! (Little Richard cover)

Anthology 2 (1996, Apple (UK), Capitol (US))
1 Real Love
2 Yes It Is
3 I'm Down
4 You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
5 If You've Got Trouble
6 That Means A Lot
7 Yesterday
8 It's Only Love
9 I Feel Fine (live)
10 Ticket To Ride (live)
11 Yesterday (live)
12 Help! (live)
13 Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby (live) (Carl Perkins cover)
14 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
15 I'm Looking Through You
16 12-Bar Original (instrumental)
17 Tomorrow Never Knows
18 Got To Get You Into My Life
19 And Your Bird Can Sing
20 Taxman
21 Eleanor Rigby (instrumental)
22 I'm Only Sleeping (rehearsal)
23 I'm Only Sleeping (take 1)
24 Rock And Roll Music (live) (Chuck Berry cover)
25 She's A Woman (live)
26 Strawberry Fields Forever (demo)
27 Strawberry Fields Forever (take 1)
28 Strawberry Fields Forever (take 7)
29 Penny Lane
30 A Day In The Life
31 Good Morning Good Morning
32 Only A Northern Song
33 Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (takes 1 and 2)
34 Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite (take 7)
35 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
36 Within You Without You (instrumnetal)
37 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)
38 You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
39 I Am The Walrus
40 The Fool On The Hill (demo)
41 Your Mother Should Know
42 The Fool On The Hill (take 4)
43 Hello, Goodbye
44 Lady Madonna
45 Across The Universe

Anthology 3 (1996, Apple (UK), Capitol (US))
1 A Beginning (instrumental)
2 Happiness Is A Warm Gun
3 Helter Skelter
4 Mean Mr. Mustard (demo)
5 Polythene Pam (demo)
6 Glass Onion (demo)
7 Junk (demo)
8 Piggies (demo)
9 Honey Pie (demo)
10 Don't Pass Me By
11 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
12 Good Night
13 Cry Baby Cry
14 Blackbird
15 Sexy Sadie
16 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
17 Hey Jude
18 Not Guilty
19 Mother Nature's Son
20 Glass Onion
21 Rocky Raccoon
22 What's The New Mary Jane
23 Step Inside Love
24 Los Paranoias
25 I'm So Tired
26 I Will
27 Why Don't We Do It In The Road
28 Julia
29 I've Got A Feeling
30 She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
31 Dig A Pony
32 Two Of Us
33 For You Blue
34 Teddy Boy
35 Medley: Rip It Up/Shake Rattle And Roll/Blue Suede Shoes (Little Richard cover/Big Joe Turner cover/Carl Perkins cover)
36 The Long And Winding Road
37 Oh! Darling
38 All Things Must Pass
39 Mailiman, Bring Me No More Blues (Buddy Holly cover)
40 Get Back (live)
41 Old Brown Shoe
42 Octopus's Garden
43 Maxwell's Silver Hammer
44 Something
45 Come Together
46 Come And Get It
47 Ain't She Sweet (Gene Vincent cover (adapted from a 1920's standard))
48 Because
49 Let It Be
50 I Me Mine
51 The End

Yellow Submarine (1999 reissue) (1999, Apple)
1 Yellow Submarine
2 Hey Bulldog
3 Eleanor Rigby
4 Love You To
5 All Together Now
6 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
7 Think For Yourself
8 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
9 With A Little Help From My Friends
10 Baby, You're A Rich Man
11 Only A Northern Song
12 All You Need Is Love
13 When I'm Sixty-Four
14 Nowhere Man
15 It's All Too Much

1 (2000, Apple)
1 Love Me Do (Andy White version)
2 From Me To You
3 She Loves You
4 I Want To Hold Your Hand
5 Can't Buy Me Love
6 A Hard Day's Night
7 I Feel Fine
8 Eight Days A Week
9 Ticket To Ride
10 Help!
11 Yesterday
12 Day Tripper
13 We Can Work It Out
14 Paperback Writer
15 Yellow Submarine
16 Eleanor Rigby
17 Penny Lane
18 All You Need Is Love
19 Hello, Goodbye
20 Lady Madonna
21 Hey Jude
22 Get Back
23 The Ballad Of John And Yoko
24 Something
25 Come Together
26 Let It Be
27 The Long And Winding Road

Let It Be... Naked (2003, Apple (UK), Capitol (US))
1 Get Back
2 Dig A Pony
3 For You Blue
4 The Long And Winding Road
5 Two Of Us
6 I've Got A Feeling
7 One After 909
8 Don't Let Me Down
9 I Me Mine
10 Across The Universe
11 Let It Be

A version of Let It Be with all of Phil Spector's orchestrations removed from the tracks.



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