The Beatles Story (1993)
The Beatles Story was a 3-disc CD set published in Japan by CTA Records. At the time of release, Japanese copyright law stated that any non-Japanese recording made before January 1, 1968 was public domain, meaning that although unauthorized the set was completely legal. Anyone could re-release non-Japanese recordings as long as royalties were paid to JASRAC, the collective management organization administering music copyrights. The set was imported into the US and even sold at large retailers such as Best Buy, but being that the CDs were completely illegal in the US they were soon pulled. The discs are believed to be sourced from consumer reel to reel releases and underwent some filtering on the high end to reduce noise. Being that the original CD releases of the Beatles’ first four albums were in mono, this set was the only CD source for songs from those albums in stereo.
A second 3-disc CD set titled Another Beatles Story was also issued.
Disc 1: Super Hits
- Please Please Me
- I Want To Hold Your Hand
- She Loves You
- From Me To You
- Love Me Do
- Can’t Buy Me Love
- A Hard Day’s Night
- I Feel Fine
- Eight Days A Week
- Ticket To Ride
- Help!
- Yesterday
- We Can Work It Out
- Paperback Writer
- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Magical Mystery Tour
- Penny Lane
- Strawberry Fields Forever
- All You Need Is Love
- Hello Goodbye
Disc 2: Rock ‘N Roll
- Rock And Roll Music
- She’s A Woman
- I Saw Her Standing There
- Boys
- Twist And Shout
- Little Child
- Roll Over Beethoven
- Hold Me Tight
- I Wanna Be Your Man
- Money
- Long Tall Sally
- You Can’t Do That
- Slow Down
- Matchbox
- Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey
- Honey Don’t
- Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby
- Bad Boy
- Dizzy Miss Lizzy
- I’m Down
Disc 3: Love Ballades (sic) front cover
- Yesterday
- P.S. I Love You
- Ask Me Why
- Baby It’s You
- A Taste Of Honey
- All My Loving
- All I’ve Got To Do
- Till There Was You
- You Really Got A Hold On Me
- If I Fell (listed as “If I Feel”)
- And I Love Her
- I’ll Follow The Sun
- Yes It Is
- It’s Only Love
- Michelle
- In My Life
- Girl
- Here, There, And Everywhere
- For No One
- She’s Leaving Home
Release history
- CTA Records – released 1993