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Vinyl Album

Artist: The Beatles Title: The Beatles Box Label:   World Records / EMI Country: UK Catalogue: SM 701 - SM 708 Date: 27 Oct 1980 Format: Box Set Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  37 Own, 1 Wants 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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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	The Beatles	The Beatles Box		Rate

Notes

A boxed set of eight albums released by World Records, the mail order mail-order subsidiary of EMI. World Records had released over 50 sets of albums covering the careers of EMI's top artists, such as Cliff Richard, The Supremes, The Shadows, Frank Sinatra, Nat 'King' Cole, Hank Williams, Mantovani, The Beach Boys etc., and obviously their ultimate release would be a Beatles collection.

Ten years after The Beatles' split, and following many years of negotiation, World Records were given the right to release this Beatles' boxed collection. Unlike the EMI Beatles Collection of 1978, this is a collection of completely new albums, in new sleeves and a highly original box. The collection was advertised for the first time in the national press on 5 November 1980, with repeat ads monthly into 1981. As the album was sold by mail order, its sales would not register in the charts, but at a very reasonable price of £29.75 for eight albums it was a very good purchase, and its sales must have been increased by the tragic death of John Lennon in December 1980.

Source: The Long And Winding Road: A History Of The Beatles On Record (Revised and Updated), written by Neville Stannard (1983, Virgin Books), with acknowledgement, and used for educational purposes.

Record 1, Record 2, Record 3, Record 4,
Record 5, Record 6, Record 7, Record 8.


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Comments and Reviews

JPGR&B SUBS ● 21st Oct 2021		Contemporaneous newspaper advert added, courtesy of my friend Andrew Brooks.
Quad5point1 ● 2nd Jun 2020		Nod to JPGR&B, I've added a much better scan of the inside of the box lid
Record Collector 19th Oct 2015		As I'm building up my CD collection this is how select the tracks album by album to go on my iPod
Record Collector 8th Aug 2015		Released here in Australia through reader's digest
Record Collector 24th Jul 2015		A must have collection
Record Collector 2nd Feb 2015		Ahh yes I have this I was originally going to buy The Beatles Collection but got this in instead
An6y66 31st May 2014		added a set (except disc 4 which was the same as already added) of labels with variant rim text
Quad5point1 ● 6th Mar 2014		I have the cassette box also
revivalvinyl1961 4th Mar 2014		i have cassettes box set
Quad5point1 ● 25th Feb 2014		Added all the cover and label scans also World Records guarantee certificate
JPGR&B SUBS ● 11th Nov 2013		Image added of the inside of the box lid with the index of the records and their tracks. Links added in the notes to the eight LPs.

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