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Artist: The Beatles Title: Only The Beatles... Label: Parlophone / Stiletto Music Country: Bootleg Date: Catalogue: SMCD 151 Barcode: Format: CD Album Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  2 Own, 1 Wants Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search on eBay

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
01	The Beatles	Love Me Do	McCartney, Lennon	Rate
02	The Beatles	Twist And Shout	Medley, Russell	Rate
03	The Beatles	She Loves You	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
04	The Beatles	This Boy	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
05	The Beatles	Eight Days A Week	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
06	The Beatles	All My Loving	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
07	The Beatles	Ticket To Ride	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
08	The Beatles	Yes It Is	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
09	The Beatles	Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
10	The Beatles	Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
11	The Beatles	And I Love Her	Lennon, McCartney	Rate
12	The Beatles	Strawberry Fields Forever	Lennon, McCartney	Rate

Notes

Most likely a bootleg CD version of the original cassette version, which was released as part of a Heineken sales promotion in 1986, but without the agreement of The Beatles' company Apple, and so the promotion was swiftly terminated.

The matrix number details on the inner part of the CD read <SMCD151>GDA30A SA.

For more on this see here.

Also released as a cassette album.

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Comments and Reviews

JPGR&B SUBS 10th Apr 2014		Ok. I have updated the Notes and deleted the date as we really don't know which year this CD was produced.
TopPopper 9th Apr 2014		If the consensus is that this is a bootleg, then can we remove the year of release? At present it is listed prior to the first official EMI releases of Please Please Me etc, which must be wrong.
JPGR&B SUBS 9th Apr 2014		Thanks re Occam's razor. I too bought the cans at the time and have the cassette. This entry and CD are mine. I only bought the CD quite recently over the internet. As I said below, if it is a bootleg, it is of a very high quality.
An6y66 7th Apr 2014		yeah definately a bootleg, this was only released on cassette, if you look at the wording on the beer can image added to the cassette version, linked in the notes section, there is no mention of a CD release on a "Unique Cassette". Also like jordansongs I don't know myself about the release, but i asked my dad about this and he too bought the beers for the cassette and said that there wasn't an option of which format you wanted when you sent off for the album , if there had been a cd he would've had that.
TopPopper 7th Apr 2014		If Occam's Razor were applied, I think it would lead to the opposite conclusion. Surely a company which has already issued a cassette edition would have a much easier task of producing these realistic CDs, than some previously uninvolved third party? That said, I do believe it's a boot!
Deltics 7th Apr 2014		Occam's razor
JPGR&B SUBS 7th Apr 2014		Occam's razor??
Orbiting Cat ● 6th Apr 2014		I cannot believe that this was actually released in 1986, i.e. was the first Beatles CD released. I don't really know what I am talking about. But I'd say this is a well produced bootleg made much much later. Occam's razor.
JPGR&B SUBS 29th Mar 2014		The matrix number details on the inner part of the CD read <SMCD151>GDA30A SA. The wording on the back cover states: All rights of the copyright owner reserved. It is ILLEGAL to copy this recording. The same wording is found on the cassette version, except ILLEGAL is underlined on the cassette version.
nboldock 28th Mar 2014		That does look a bit odd, to be fair. Not conclusive though.
GEMSMFAN 28th Mar 2014		Note: the disc doesn't include the Parlophone or Stiletto logos.
GEMSMFAN 28th Mar 2014		What would be interesting is to see if any other CDs exist in this catalog number sequence. if there are, check the CD matrices. Quite often, the catalog numbers appear somewhere. The CD matrix number doesn't include that here. I will say, if it is a bootleg.. and I think it is, they did a nice job. I read the link info on the tape and clearly though that was a legit release... it wasn't approved and the promotion must have been quickly eliminated, making the tape rare and collectable.
jordansongs 27th Mar 2014		I was too young to (legally) drink at the time, but I remember my older brother (both a Beatles fan and a committed drinker) getting through the requisite amount of beer in order to get the cassette. I know he would happily have put in the extra effort if there was a CD version on offer as well.
An6y66 27th Mar 2014		I would have said it was a bootleg of the original Cassette version. Discogs lists it as an unoffical copy. I know they aren't the final word on the bootleg vs offical argument but they're a good start.
jordansongs 27th Mar 2014		Looking at the entry for the cassette edition, the marketing on the cans makes no mention of a CD version. It was definitely released in 1986 and pre-dated the official Beatles CD releases so there would certainly have been an incentive for bootleggers to produce a CD version of the cassette.
GEMSMFAN 27th Mar 2014		if it's legitimate, it's amazing how a promotion could predate all the hype to release The Beatles internationally on CD. That is, their actual EMI studio recordings OR maybe the release year is incorrect.
nboldock 27th Mar 2014		I think a bootleg has to be deliberate, surely? Isn't this more a case of Heineken just making an enormous balls-up?
JPGR&B SUBS 27th Mar 2014		In my research I only found reference to the cassette. If it is a bootleg it is of a very high quality, down to the gift card as well.
jordansongs 27th Mar 2014		Even taking into account the dubious legality of the cassette version, is this not just a bootleg?

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