Only The Beatles...
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Only The Beatles... is an unauthorized Beatles compilation album released in 1986 in audiocassette format, as a joint promotional campaign by Heineken Beer[1] and EMI;[2] consumers could obtain a copy of the album in exchange for four pull tabs from specially marked cans[3] and £2.99.[4]
The promotion began on 1 July 1986. After 17 days, Apple Records' legal representation intervened and ordered EMI to stop distribution of the cassette.[5] Production and distribution were successfully halted, and the tape has since become a collector's item.
Track listing
[edit]- "Love Me Do"
- "Twist and Shout"
- "She Loves You"
- "This Boy"
- "Eight Days a Week"
- "All My Loving"
- "Ticket to Ride"
- "Yes It Is"
- "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
- "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
- "And I Love Her"
- "Strawberry Fields Forever"
References
[edit]- ^ Heineken beer can promotion at The Beatles Collectors' Reference Center; published 17 September 1999; retrieved 12 January 2013
- ^ "Only The Beatles" – The Heineken Cassette, at Blogspot.com, by Roger Stormo; retrieved 28 December 2016
- ^ Promotional Heineken cans and display: Promotional Heineken cans and display: Accession numbers MLL.2005.41.23 to 25 at National Museums Liverpool; retrieved 12 January 2013
- ^ A Prize In Every Box: Premiums, Toys and Box-Tops, from Under the Influence, at CBC.ca, by Terry O'Reilly; published 12 January 2013; retrieved 12 January 2013
- ^ The Beatles Diary, Volume 2: After the Break-Up, 1970-2001, by Barry Miles and Keith Badman; Omnibus Press; 2001