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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
- " 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
- ^ 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