The Beatles Announce ‘The Singles Collection’ Vinyl Box Set

THE BEATLES Can't Buy Me Love (1985 UK limited edition 20th Anniversary 7" Picture Disc single, also including You Can't Do That, clear PVC sleeve. The disc remains in excellent condition with some light paper hairlines to show play RP5114)

THE BEATLES A Hard Day's Night (Rare 1965 UK seond pressing of the 1964 13-track stereo LP on the black & yellow Parlophone label with 'Gramophone Co' label credits & 'Sold In The UK' text & small solid 'stereo' logo on the front of the laminated flipback picture sleeve with 'Patents Pending' text on the lower back flipback. The sleeve is bright & shows just a small amount of wear mostly to the edges and some light age yellowing. The labels have a few spindle marks and the vinyl remains very good with some light cosmetic surface scuffs & hairlines with no major deterioration in sound quality PCS3058)

THE BEATLES The Capitol Albums Vol. 2 (2006 UK Four CD album set comprising both stereo & mono versions of their albums released by Capitol in 1965, including The Early Beatles, Beatles VI, Help and the US version of Rubber Soul, all remastered from the original Capitol tapes using 24-bit digital technology, with each album in a card wallet with the original sleeve designs, along with a fifty six page booklet with comprehensive notes, pictures & memorabilia from the era & quotes from The Beatles; within a 10" x 5" format, which folds to 5" size for ease of racking, with an outer slipcase. Although not sealed, this example is still in its hype-stickered shrinkwrap and near mint content)

THE BEATLES The Beatles In Mono (Sealed 2009 UK limited edition 13-CD album set. The 1960's represented a time of great advances in music recording & reproduction. During the period that The Beatles were recording [1962-1969] the primary format wasMono - the installed base of mono players was massive with stereo the preserve of hi-fi fanatics & some easy listening and classical purists. In fact, Mono was so important that the Beatles themselves [once they had started to take aninterestin the physical production of their music] attended only the Mono mastering sessions. The stereo mastering was often done separately & sometimes quite a bit later without their involvement. So for many, the Mono masters are considered to be the pinnacle of audio reproduction of The Beatles - this is how they were meant to sound at the time given the importance of the single channel medium. From 'Please Please Me' to 'The White Album', all the original mixes are represented here in full, glorious mono! 'Past Masters' has been recreated as Mono masters to reflect this period, duplicating the 'Past Masters' tracklisting with the exception of tracks that only ever appeared in stereo. As an added bonus, five tracks [never previously released in mono] are included. These are 'Only A Northern Song', 'All Together Now', 'Hey Bulldog' & 'It's All Too Much' [from the 'Yellow Submarine' project] plus 'Across The Universe'. These were originally scheduled for release on a 1969 EP. There is a fantastic essay in the Mono Masters booklet that explains in detail the history of these recordings & goes some way to highlight just why these versions are so eagerly anticipated. With the collector in mind, both 'Help!' & 'Rubber Soul' now contain the original 1965 stereo mixes on CD for the first time, since Sir George Martin had actually remixed these for their CD debut in 1987 rendering these original mixes unavailable. Apart from the first four albums ['Please Please Me' to 'Beatles For Sale'] which have been available in mono on CD since 1987, the remaining titles are making their CD debut in this format plus the Mono Masters set has received the remastering treatment by a dedicated team of engineers at Abbey Road studios. All the albums [apart from Mono Masters] come in LP-style packaging reduced in exquisite detail to CD-sized format, with everything from the recreation of the vinyl label to the paper inner sleeve replete with original text. The jackets are exact reproductions of the original UK vinyl releases & have been manufactured in Japan, to the very highest quality and attention to detail)

THE BEATLES A Hard Day's Night (1979 UK issue of the 1964 13-track stereo LP on the two EMI boxed logos and 'EMI Records Ltd' perimeter text label, front laminated picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear, the vinyl is inExcellent condition with just a few cosmetic surface scuffs PCS3058)