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Beatles box set called “The Beatles Collection”, their twenty-five British singles at the time, released by World Records and EMI in 1978. The singles are all encased in a black, textured cardboard box.

It was compiled and sold by World Records, EMI’s mail order division. It was never commercially released to stores – the only way you could get it was through ordering it via World Records.

Each single is in a picture sleeve – which are all green on one side but have a Beatles picture on the other. There aren’t different pictures for each and every single, but four main pictures are used multiple times, relating to the Beatles era in which the single comes from. There are however different photographs used for the three additional discs in this set: one for “Back in the USSR/Twist and Shout”, one for “Yesterday/ Have Known Better”, and the “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help From My Friends/A Day in the Life” getting its own, unique picture sleeve.

Also included are two four-page booklets detailing the history of the group (one 1962-1970, one 1962-1978).

There’s also an additional, one-sided sheet stating that the set now includes the addition of the “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” disc, indicating that previous boxes came without this particular record

The “Beatles Singles Collection” (UK – 1978 – World Records/EMI, 25 Original 45 RPM Records box set) comprises all the Beatles singles 1962-1978:

1. Love Me Do / P.S. I Love You (Parlophone/October 5, 1962)

2. Please Please Me / Ask Me Why

3. From Me To You / Thank You Girl

4. She Loves You / I’ll Get You

5. I Want To Hold Your Hand / This Boy

6. Can’t Buy Me Love / You Can’t Do That

7. A Hard Day’s Night / Things We Said Today

8. I Feel Fine / She’s A Woman

9. Ticket To Ride / Yes It Is

10. Help / I’m Down

11. Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out

12. Paperback Writer / Rain

13. Eleanor Rigby / Yellow Submarine

14. Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane

15. All You Need Is Love / Baby You’re A Rich Man

16. Hello Goodbye / I Am The Walrus

17. Lady Madonna / The Inner Light

18. Hey Jude /Revolution

19. Get Back / Don’t Let Me Down

20. The Ballad Of John And Yoko / Old Brown Shoe

21. Something / Come Together

22. Let It Be / You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)

23. Yesterday / I Should Have Known Better

24. Back In The USSR / Twist And Shout

25. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Finally, you get a postage paid envelope to World Records

Box is in solid but slightly tatty condition and is taped inside the top hinge. Sleeves, vinyl and inserts in very good condition

the Beatles singles collection vinyl 7” Box Set 1962-1970-1978 24+1 Singles 25. Condition is Used. Dispatched with Royal Mail 1st Class.