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Artist: The Beatles Title: Complete Compact Disc Collection Label:   Parlophone Country: UK Date: 31 Oct 1988 Catalogue: BEA CDBOX1 Barcode: Format: CD Box Set Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  3 Own Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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A special limited edition (10,000) boxed set, produced by British record store HMV.

This set comprises of the 13 CDs originally released in 1987 plus the two Past Masters sets from early 1988, and contains a 64-page booklet that includes a 3,000 word introduction by The Beatles Press Officer, Derek Taylor, as well as comprehensive sleeve notes with many previously unpublished photographs, and a full colour poster.

The front cover of the box itself features a hologram of The Beatles distinctive drum kit. This is the first time that a hologram of any Beatles image has been produced.

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Comments and Reviews

albert 20th Oct 2016		This is a nice item but I would like to hear people’s opinions on these HMV box sets as I find them somewhat troubling, and the same goes for all of the HMV packages of Beatles stuff. HMV was originally the retail shop linked to the Gramophone Company (later EMI group) to sell the records they produced, so all well and good. But when companies get really big they tend to be subdivided to protect the group as a whole, so if one division suffers from a failure then it doesn't bring down the whole group, however these subdivisions also start working independently of each other. So anyway, prior to the Beatles items, in the late 1980s, HMV produced a 'classic collection' series of box sets including items such as Velvet Underground & Nico, The Doors L.A. Woman, Led Zeppelin 4, Fleetwood Mac Rumours, Elvis Presley Sun Collection and one which I bought, Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced. It was a standard box with a small picture of the album cover stuck on the front and inside was the LP itself plus a booklet and a standard certificate announcing its 'limited edition'. But afterwards it dawned on me that I'd been conned, the LP was on Polydor (not part of EMI) so in fact this was just a re-package of a regular LP with added premium price, what I paid extra for was essentially just the booklet and a sticker, (ignoring the standard box & standard piece of paper). So my question is what do we really know about these Beatles HMV boxes? were they sanctioned by the Beatles? what is the story? I’d like to know.

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