The Beatles Mono Collection
1982 box set by the Beatles
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| Box set by the Beatles | ||||
| Released | 3 October 1982 | |||
| Recorded | September 1962 – October 1968, EMI, Trident, Olympic and Apple studios | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 445:37 | |||
| Label | EMI/Parlophone, Apple | |||
| Producer | George Martin | |||
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Released in 1982, The Beatles Mono Collection is a boxed set of all Beatles' albums which were originally issued on mono LPs in the UK (Please Please Me to Yellow Submarine). EMI reportedly pressed a total of 10,000 copies of each reissue mono LP for sale individually. An unknown quantity of unnumbered red boxes (sometimes reported to be between 300 and 500) were issued in the UK, while 1000 numbered black boxed sets were assembled and issued in the United States by the Dutch East India Trading Co. These US sets originally sold for $79.00 and included a numbered certificate and an order blank for additional sets.
A new Mono Box, containing remastered monoural versions of the Beatles' core albums (with the exception of Yellow Submarine album) plus Mono Masters compilation, was released on 9 September 2009 along with Stereo Box and new stereo reissues of the individual albums, including the first four albums given their stereo debuts on CD.
Album contents
The set contains the following Parlophone Beatles LPs:
- Please Please Me (PMC-1202)
- With the Beatles (PMC-1206)
- A Hard Day's Night (PMC-1230)
- Beatles for Sale (PMC-1240)
- Help! (PMC-1255)
- Rubber Soul (PMC-1267)
- Revolver (PMC-7009)
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (PMC-7027)
- The Beatles (PMC-7067/8)
- Yellow Submarine (PMC-7070)
The Yellow Submarine album, included in the set, is the only original UK mono Beatles LP without a dedicated mono mix. The mono album is simply a fold-down (two stereo channels combined into one) of the stereo mix. Magical Mystery Tour was not included in the set as it was not originally issued as an LP in the UK. The last two Beatles albums Abbey Road, and Let It Be were also not included as they never received a mono LP release in the UK. Some copies of the boxset contained a faulty pressing of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band which had a stereo cut on Side B instead of mono.
Personnel
For full personnel see individual albums
- George Harrison – vocals, guitars, sitar, tambura, organ, bass
- John Lennon – vocals, guitars, harmonica, keyboards, bass
- Paul McCartney – vocals, bass, keyboards, guitars
- Ringo Starr – vocals, drums, percussion
See also
References
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The Beatles compilations
recordings with
Tony Sheridan
- My Bonnie (GER, 1962)
- The Beatles with Tony Sheridan and Their Guests (1964)
- Ain't She Sweet (1964)
- The Beatles' First (GER, 1964 / UK, 1967)
- Very Together (1969)
- In the Beginning (Circa 1960) (1970)
- The Early Tapes of the Beatles (1984)
- Greatest Hits Volume 1 (AUS, 1966)
- A Collection of Beatles Oldies (1966)
- Greatest Hits Volume 2 (AUS, 1967)
- The Essential Beatles (AUS, 1972)
- 1962–1966 (Red Album) (1973)
- 1967–1970 (Blue Album) (1973)
- 20 Greatest Hits (1982)
- The Number Ones (AUS, 1983)
- 1 (2000)
- Rock 'n' Roll Music (1976)
- Love Songs (1977)
- The Beatles Ballads (1980)
- Reel Music (1982)
- Tomorrow Never Knows (2012)
- Hey Jude (US, 1970 / UK, 1979)
- Por Siempre Beatles (ARG, 1971)
- Rarities (UK, 1978)
- Rarities (US, 1980)
- Past Masters (1988)
- Mono Masters (2009)
- Yellow Submarine Songtrack (1999)
- Let It Be... Naked (2003)
- Sessions (unreleased)
- Anthology 1 (1995)
- Anthology 2 (1996)
- Anthology 3 (1996)
- The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963 (2013)
- Jolly What! / The Beatles & Frank Ifield on Stage (US, 1964)
- The Beatles in Italy (ITA, 1965)
- The Beatles' Christmas Album (US) / From Then to You (UK) (1970)
- The Beatles Tapes from the David Wigg Interviews (1976)
- Only The Beatles... (UK, 1986, withdrawn)
- Love (2006)
- 4: John Paul George Ringo (2014 EP)
| Unofficial |
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- The Singles Collection 1962–1970 (UK, 1976)
- The Beatles Collection (UK, 1978 / US, 1979)
- The Beatles Box (1980)
- The Beatles EP Collection (1981)
- The Beatles: The Collection (1982)
- The Beatles Mono Collection (1982)
- The Beatles Box Set (1988)
- The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 (2004)
- The Capitol Albums, Volume 2 (2006)
- The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) (2009)
- The Beatles in Mono (2009)
- The U.S. Albums (2014)
- The Japan Box (2014)
- The Christmas Records (2017)
- The Singles Collection (2019)
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