The Beatles Box Set

Infobox Album
Name = The Beatles Box Set
Type = box
Artist = The Beatles


Released = 15 November 1988
Recorded = Abbey Road (mostly)
4 September 1962–1 April 1970
Genre = Rock
Length = 562:46
Label = Parlophone/Capitol/Apple BBX2-91302
Producer = George Martin, Phil Spector ("Let It Be"), and Chris Thomas ("You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)")
Reviews =
Last album = "Past Masters, Volumes One and Two"
(1988)
This album = "The Beatles Box Set"
(1988)
Next album = "Live at the BBC"
(1994)

"The Beatles Box Set" is the first complete set of original Beatles material released by EMI and Capitol in digital format. Released in 1988, for the first time a music fan could purchase the entire Beatles catalogue digitally formatted in a single set. The box set, available on CD, vinyl, or cassette, included all of the original UK releases plus "Magical Mystery Tour", which had been released in the United States in 1967 but not released in the UK until 1976 ("Magical Mystery Tour" had been issued on CD worldwide in 1987, along with the twelve original British Beatles albums), as well as two discs, called "Past Masters: Volume One" and "Past Masters: Volume Two," which featured singles, B-sides, EP tracks, and foreign releases not found on the other thirteen albums. Although all the original British albums had been previously available in stereo on both vinyl and cassette, the versions of the first four albums included in the boxed set were the digitally remastered mono mixes released on CD in 1987.

The collection also includes a soft-cover book by Mark Lewisohn which describes every track in the collection which is encased in a black oak rolltop box.

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