1962–1966 / 1967–1970

Tracklist

• CD 1: 1962–1966
• 1
  Love Me Do
  2:25
• 2
  Please Please Me
  2:00
• 3
  I Saw Her Standing There
  2:53
  3.5 ★
• 4
  Twist and Shout
  2:34
• 5
  From Me to You
  1:57
• 6
  She Loves You
  2:22
• 7
  I Want to Hold Your Hand
  2:26
• 8
  This Boy
  2:19
• 9
  All My Loving
  2:08
• 10
  Roll Over Beethoven
  2:45
• 11
  You Really Got a Hold on Me
  3:01
• 12
  Can’t Buy Me Love
  2:13
• 13
  You Can’t Do That
  2:33
• 14
  A Hard Day’s Night
  2:35
  3.4 ★
• 15
  And I Love Her
  2:32
• 16
  Eight Days a Week
  2:44
  3.5 ★
• 17
  I Feel Fine
  2:20
  3.8 ★
• 18
  Ticket to Ride
  3:11
• 19
  Yesterday
  2:04
  3.9 ★
• CD 2: 1962–1966
• 1
  Help!
  2:19
  3.5 ★
• 2
  You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
  2:11
• 3
  We Can Work It Out
  2:16
  3.8 ★
• 4
  Day Tripper
  2:49
  3.8 ★
• 5
  Drive My Car
  2:28
  3.8 ★
• 6
  Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
  2:05
  3.8 ★
• 7
  Nowhere Man
  2:44
  3.5 ★
• 8
  Michelle
  2:42
  3.9 ★
• 9
  In My Life
  2:27
• 10
  If I Needed Someone
  2:23
  3.8 ★
• 11
  Girl
  2:31
• 12
  Paperback Writer
  2:19
  3.8 ★
• 13
  Eleanor Rigby
  2:08
  4.3 ★
• 14
  Yellow Submarine
  2:38
• 15
  Taxman
  2:38
  3.5 ★
• 16
  Got to Get You Into My Life
  2:27
  3.3 ★
• 17
  I’m Only Sleeping
  2:58
  4.5 ★
• 18
  Here, There and Everywhere
  2:24
• 19
  Tomorrow Never Knows
  2:57
  3.9 ★
• CD 3: 1967–1970
• 1
  Strawberry Fields Forever
  4:12
  4.8 ★
• 2
  Penny Lane
  3:00
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  2:02
• 4
  With a Little Help From My Friends
  2:44
  3.5 ★
• 5
  Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
  3:30
  4.3 ★
• 6
  Within You Without You
  5:11
  4.3 ★
• 7
  A Day in the Life
  5:07
  3.8 ★
• 8
  All You Need Is Love
  3:49
  4.2 ★
• 9
  I Am the Walrus
  4:35
  4.7 ★
• 10
  Hello, Goodbye
  3:29
  4.3 ★
• 11
  The Fool on the Hill
  3:00
• 12
  Magical Mystery Tour
  2:49
  3.5 ★
• 13
  Lady Madonna
  2:18
  3.6 ★
• 14
  Hey Jude
  7:11
  4.6 ★
• 15
  Revolution
  3:21
  3.8 ★
• CD 4: 1967–1970
• 1
  Back in the U.S.S.R.
  2:45
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Dear Prudence
  3:59
  3.8 ★
• 3
  While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  4:46
  4.1 ★
• 4
  Ob‐La‐Di, Ob‐La‐Da
  3:11
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Glass Onion
  2:19
  3.3 ★
• 6
  Blackbird
  2:21
  3.9 ★
• 7
  Hey Bulldog
  3:11
  3.8 ★
• 8
  Get Back
  3:12
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Don’t Let Me Down
  3:34
• 10
  The Ballad of John and Yoko
  3:00
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Old Brown Shoe
  3:18
• 12
  Here Comes the Sun
  3:07
  4.5 ★
• 13
  Come Together
  4:19
  4.8 ★
• 14
  Something
  3:03
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Octopus’s Garden
  2:52
• 16
  Oh! Darling
  3:28
  4.0 ★
• 17
  I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
  7:47
  4.8 ★
• 18
  Let It Be
  3:51
  3.8 ★
• 19
  Across the Universe
  3:49
  3.4 ★
• 20
  I Me Mine
  2:28
• 21
  The Long and Winding Road
  3:37
• 22
  Now and Then
  4:08

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Release credits

• Adrianne Pope
  violin [22]
• Alan Branscombe
  tenor saxophone [16]
• Alan Civil
  French horn [7]
• Alan Dalziel
  cello [7]
• Alan Loveday
  violin [6]
• Alan Parsons
  engineer [14]
• Alex Nifosi
  cello [7]
• Alf Bicknell
  background vocals [14]
• Alfred Waters
  bassoon [7]
• Allen Ford
  cello [6]
• Amiya Dasgupta
  tabla [6]
• Amrit Gajjar
  dilruba [6]
• Andrew Bulbrook
  violin [22]
• Andrew McGee
  guest [9], violin [9]
• Anna Joshi
  dilruba [6]
• Ayvren Harrison
  viola [22]
• Barry Sheffield
  engineer [4.2, 4.17, 3.14]
• Basil Tschaikov
  clarinet [7]
• Ben Foster
  strings [22]
• Bernard Davis
  viola [7]
• Bert Courtley
  trumpet [2]
• Bill Jackman
  baritone saxophone [13]
• Bill Monro
  violin [7]
• Bill Povey
  tenor saxophone [13]
• Billy Preston
  Hammond organ [14, 17], electric piano [8, 8-9, 21], guest [8, 14, 17], organ [17-18]
• Bram Martin
  cello [9], guest [9]
• Brian Jones
  background vocals [14], ocarina [14]
• Bruce Sugar
  engineer [22]
• Buddhadev Kansara
  tambura [6]
• Caroline Buckman
  viola [22]
• Charlie Bisharat
  violin [22]
• Chris Thomas
  additional [14], producer [5, 11, 15-17], recorder [5]
• Christopher Taylor
  flute [11], guest [11]
• Clifford Seville
  flute [7]
• Cyril MacArthur
  double bass [7]
• Dave Harries
  engineer [1], producer [1]
• David Mason
  guest [8, 12], piccolo [2], piccolo trumpet [8], trumpet [7, 12]
• David McCallum
  violin [7]
• David Sanderman
  flute [7]
• David Wolfsthal
  violin [6]
• Denis Vigay
  cello [7]
• Dennis Walton
  flute [2]
• Derek Simpson
  cello [2.13, 3.1], guest [13]
• Derek Watkins
  trumpet [1]
• Don Honeywill
  tenor saxophone [8]
• Donald Weekes
  violin [7]
• Drew Forde
  viola [22]
• Duncan Campbell
  trumpet [2]
• Eddie Kramer
  engineer [8]
• Eddie Thornton
  trumpet [16]
• Eldon Fox
  cello [3.9, 4.5], guest [9]
• Elgar Howarth
  guest [12], trumpet [12]
• Emile de la Rey
  task [2.1-11, 2.19, 4.22, 1.1-19]
• Eric Bowie
  violin [3.8, 4.5]
• Eric Clapton
  background vocals [8], guest [8], guitar [3]
• Erich Gruenberg
  violin [6-7]
• Ernest Scott
  violin [7]
• Evan Watkins
  trombone [8]
• Francisco Gabarro
  cello [1.19, 3.7]
• Frank Clarke
  double bass [2]
• Freddy Clayton
  trumpet [2]
• Gary Walker
  background vocals [8], guest [8]
• Geoff Emerick
  assistant [6-8, 14], background vocals [14], engineer [2.12, 2.16, 2.19, 3.1, 3.5-7, 3.9, 3.12-13, 3.15, 4.4, 4.6, 4.10, 4.12-14, 4.16-17, 4.19, 4.22], recording [2.14, 4.7]
• George Harrison
  12 string guitar [2.2, 2.6, 2.10-11, 1.13-14, 1.16, 1.18], Moog [12], acoustic guitar [2.2, 2.8, 3.5, 3.11, 4.2-4, 4.12, 4.20-22, 1.1, 1.15], background vocals [1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8-9, 1.11, 1.13, 1.16-17, 4.1-2, 4.4, 4.9, 4.12, 4.15-18, 4.20, 2.1, 2.4-5, 2.7-9, 2.11-14, 2.17-18, 3.3-4, 3.8, 3.10, 3.12-14], bass guitar [1], drums (drum set) [1], electric guitar [4.2, 4.5, 4.7-8, 4.8-9, 4.11, 4.11-12, 4.12-13, 4.13-14, 4.14, 4.14-15, 4.17-18, 4.20, 4.22, 1.1-12, 1.12, 1.16-18, 2.1, 2.4-5, 2.7-9, 2.12, 2.15, 2.17, 3.1, 3.9, 3.12-15], finger snaps [18], guitar [4.1, 4.12, 2.16, 2.18, 3.3-5, 3.8, 3.10], handclaps [1.1, 1.3, 1.7, 1.10, 1.16, 4.1-2, 4.4, 4.12, 3.10, 3.13, 3.15], harmonica [11], lead vocals [4.3, 4.11-12, 4.14, 4.20, 2.10, 2.15, 1.10, 3.6], maracas [7], organ [11], percussion [4.1, 3.1, 3.12], sitar [6], swarmandal [1], tambourine [2.3, 2.14, 2.16, 3.10], tambura [3.5-6, 2.19, 4.19], violin [8]
• George Martin
  Hammond organ [4], background vocals [14], conductor [1], harmonium [7], mix [1], orchestrator [6-9], organ [16], piano [1.11, 1.14, 2.9, 2.19, 3.2, 3.5, 3.8], producer [1.1-12, 1.12-19, 4.1-21, 2.1-19, 3.1, 3.5-15], string quartet [19], strings [3.6, 4.14]
• Giles Martin
  mix [4.1-6, 4.19-21, 2.12-19, 3.1-7], producer [4.13-14, 4.19-22, 3.9, 2.12-19], remixer [1.1-19, 2.1-11, 2.19, 3.9], strings [22], task [22]
• Giovanna Moraga-Clayton
  cello [22]
• Glyn Johns
  engineer [8, 14, 18, 21], producer [17]
• Gordon Lewin
  clarinet [9], guest [9]
• Gordon Pearce
  double bass [7]
• Graham Nash
  background vocals [8], guest [8]
• Granville Jones
  violin [7]
• Greg Bowen
  trumpet [1]
• Greg McAllister
  engineer [22]
• Gwynne Edwards
  viola [7]
• Hans Geiger
  violin [7]
• Harold Jackson
  trumpet [7]
• Harold Spain
  trombone [8]
• Harry Klein
  baritone saxophone [13]
• Henry Datyner
  violin [3.7, 4.5]
• Hillary Smith
  cello [22]
• Ian Hamer
  trumpet [16]
• Jack Brymer
  clarinet [7]
• Jack Ellory
  flute [11], guest [11]
• Jack Emblow
  accordion [8]
• Jack Greene
  guest [9], violin [6, 9]
• Jack Richards
  guest [9], violin [9]
• Jack Rothstein
  guest [9], violin [6, 9]
• Jackie Lomax
  background vocals [2], handclaps [2]
• Jacques Esmenjaud
  assistant [12]
• James W. Buck
  French horn [3]
• Jane Asher
  background vocals [8], guest [8]
• Jeff Jarratt
  engineer [11, 14-16]
• Jeff Jones
  executive [22]
• Jeff Lynne
  additional [22]
• Jerry Boys
  additional [3, 8]
• John Bryning
  spoken vocals [9]
• John Burden
  French horn [3]
• John Jezzard
  guest [9], violin [9]
• John Kurlander
  engineer [13-14]
• John Lennon
  12 string guitar [1-2], Moog [17], acoustic guitar [1.1, 1.6, 1.8, 1.12, 1.14-16, 2.3, 2.6-8, 2.11, 2.14, 2.17, 3.7, 3.12, 3.14, 4.2, 4.5, 4.10, 4.19], background vocals [1.1, 1.3, 1.9, 3.3-4, 3.8, 3.10, 3.12-14, 2.3-5, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12-15, 2.17-18, 4.1-2, 4.4, 4.8, 4.11, 4.13, 4.16, 4.18], banjo [8], bass [1, 3, 21], bass guitar [18], congas [2], cowbell [4], drums (drum set) [1], electric guitar [3.1, 3.13, 3.15, 1.2-5, 1.7, 1.9-11, 1.13-14, 1.17-18, 4.7-8, 4.8-10, 4.13, 4.15-17, 4.19, 2.4-5, 2.7, 2.9-10], electric piano [3.9, 4.13], finger snaps [18], guitar [2.16, 3.3-5, 4.1], handclaps [4.1, 4.4, 4.13, 1.1, 1.3, 1.7, 1.10, 1.16, 3.10, 3.13, 3.15], harmonica [3.11, 1.1-2, 1.5], harmonium [3], harpsichord [8], lead vocals [3.1, 3.1-2, 3.5, 3.7-8, 3.8-9, 3.15, 1.1-2, 1.4-8, 1.11, 1.13-14, 1.16, 1.18, 4.2, 4.5, 4.7, 4.9-10, 4.13, 4.17, 4.19, 4.22, 2.1-2, 2.4-7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.17, 2.19], maracas [5], mellotron [9], mouth harp [11], organ [3.10, 2.19], percussion [3.1, 3.12, 4.1, 4.10], piano [3.2, 3.7, 3.10, 4.4, 4.7, 4.11, 4.14, 4.16], spoken vocals [4.7, 2.14, 3.12], tambourine [2.4-5, 2.12, 4.2, 4.13, 3.8], vocal [1]
• John Marston
  harp [7]
• John McCartney
  background vocals [2], handclaps [2]
• John Meek
  viola [7]
• John Scott
  alto flute [2], flûte d'amour [2]
• John Sharpe
  guest [13], violin [13]
• John Skinner
  background vocals [14]
• John Underwood
  guest [13], viola [2.13, 3.7, 4.5]
• John Wilbraham
  guest [12], trumpet [12]
• Jon Jacobs
  engineer [22]
• Julian Gaillard
  violin [6]
• Jurgen Hess
  guest [13], violin [2.13, 3.7]
• Jérôme Leroy
  conductor [22]
• Keith Cummings
  viola [5]
• Keith Moon
  background vocals [8], guest [8]
• Keith Richards
  background vocals [8], guest [8]
• Keith Smith
  engineer [22]
• Ken Essex
  viola [10]
• Ken Scott
  additional [1.16, 1.18, 2.1-11], engineer [4.1, 4.3, 4.5, 4.19, 3.10-11, 3.13]
• Kenneth Essex
  viola [19]
• Leo Birnbaum
  viola [10]
• Leon Calvert
  trumpet [2]
• Les Condon
  trumpet [16]
• Linda McCartney
  background vocals [18]
• Linnea Powell
  viola [22]
• Lionel Bentley
  violin [7]
• Lionel Ross
  cello [9], guest [9]
• London Symphony Orchestra
  instrument [6]
• Louis Stevens
  guest [9], violin [9]
• Mal Evans
  background vocals [2.14, 4.2], bass drum [14], guest [12], handclaps [2], percussion [12], piano [7], spoken vocals [7], tambourine [2]
• Malcolm Davies
  additional [1.18, 2.2]
• Manny Winters
  flute [2]
• Marianne Faithfull
  background vocals [3.8, 2.14], guest [8]
• Mark Dignam
  spoken vocals [9]
• Mark “Spike” Stent
  engineer [22], task [22]
• Martin Benge
  engineer [19]
• Matthew Cocker
  engineer [13-14]
• Mia Barcia-Colombo
  cello [22]
• Michael Barnes
  tuba [7]
• Mick Jagger
  background vocals [8], guest [8]
• Mike McGear
  background vocals [8], guest [8]
• Mike Stone
  additional [1.16, 2.9]
• Mike Valerio
  double bass [22]
• Mike Vickers
  conductor [8]
• Monty Montgomery
  trumpet [7]
• Morris Miller
  guest [9], horn [9]
• Neel Hammond
  violin [22]
• Neil Aspinall
  background vocals [14], guest [12], percussion [12], tambura [6]
• Neill Sanders
  French horn [3, 7], guest [9], horn [9]
• Nick Webb
  engineer [14]
• Nicky Hopkins
  electric piano [15], guest [15]
• Norman Jones
  cello [2.13, 3.1], guest [13]
• Norman Lederman
  violin [5]
• Norman Smith
  bongos [14], engineer [2.1-11, 1.1-12, 1.12-19], hi-hat [12], mix [1]
• Patrick Halling
  violin [8]
• Pattie Boyd
  background vocals [2.14, 3.8], guest [8]
• Paul McCartney
  acoustic guitar [2.8, 2.18, 1.19, 3.11, 4.4, 4.6, 4.20, 4.22], background vocals [1.2, 1.4-5, 1.7-9, 1.11, 1.13-14, 1.16-18, 4.1-3, 4.6, 4.9-13, 4.13-18, 4.20, 4.22, 2.1, 2.3-11, 2.13-15, 2.17-18, 3.3-5, 3.8, 3.12], bass [3.3-5, 3.7, 4.3, 4.20], bass guitar [2.14, 2.16-19, 1.7, 4.1-2, 4.5, 3.1, 3.8, 3.10], clavichord [7], conductor [7], congas [10], cowbell [13], double bass [8], drums (drum set) [1-2, 10-11], electric bass guitar [4.4, 4.7-8, 4.8-17, 4.22, 1.1-18, 2.1-12, 2.15, 3.9, 3.11-15], electric guitar [1.18, 2.5, 2.12, 2.15, 4.22], electric lap steel guitar [22], electric piano [18, 20], finger snaps [18], flugelhorn [2], foot stomps [6], guitar [3.1, 3.3, 4.1, 2.19], handclaps [3.13, 3.15, 4.1-2, 4.4, 4.12, 1.1, 1.3, 1.7, 1.10, 1.16], harmonium [2], harpsichord [22], lead vocals [2.3, 2.3-5, 2.8, 2.13, 2.16, 2.18, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5-7, 1.9, 1.12, 1.14-15, 1.19, 3.2-3, 3.7, 3.10, 3.10-14, 4.1, 4.4, 4.6-8, 4.8, 4.16, 4.18, 4.21], maracas [2.2, 4.10, 4.18], mellotron [1], organ [3.5, 4.3, 4.20], percussion [4.1, 4.4, 3.1], piano [4.1-2, 4.2-3, 4.5, 4.10, 4.15, 4.18-19, 4.21-22, 4.22, 2.5, 3.2, 3.4, 3.7, 3.10-13, 3.13-14], producer [22], recorder [4.5, 3.11], shakers [22], slide guitar [5], solo [15], spoken vocals [14], strings [22], tambourine [3.9, 4.7], vocal [4.13, 2.12]
• Paul Scherman
  violin [6]
• Peter Beavan
  cello [6]
• Peter Bown
  engineer [19-20]
• Peter Coe
  tenor saxophone [16]
• Phil McDonald
  additional [2.1, 1.19], engineer [12, 15-17]
• Phil Spector
  producer [19-21]
• Philip Guard
  spoken vocals [9]
• Philip McDonald
  engineer [13-14]
• Ralph Elman
  guest [9], violin [6, 9]
• Ray Swinfield
  flute [2]
• Raymond Brown
  trombone [7]
• Raymond Premru
  trombone [7]
• Reginald Kilbey
  cello [3.6, 4.5]
• Rex Morris
  tenor saxophone [8]
• Richard Hewson
  orchestrator [20]
• Richard Langham
  additional [4], assistant [3-5, 9-13, 15]
• Richard Lush
  additional [11]
• Richard Taylor
  flute [11], guest [11]
• Ringo Starr
  background vocals [4.22, 3.14], bongos [13, 15], claves [15], congas [4.4, 4.17, 3.7], cowbell [2.5, 2.15, 1.14], cymbal [12], drums (drum set), effects [15], finger cymbals [11], finger snaps [18], handclaps [4.4, 4.12, 3.15, 1.1, 1.3, 1.7, 1.10, 1.16, 1.18], lead vocals [4.15, 3.4, 2.14], maracas [4.3-4, 4.13, 4.19, 3.10-11], percussion [4], piano [7], shakers [22], spoken vocals [2.14, 4.7], tambourine [3.2, 3.4, 3.14, 1.18, 4.5, 4.22, 2.1-2, 2.5-6, 2.9-10, 2.15, 2.19], tubular bells [2]
• Roger Lord
  oboe [7]
• Ron Pender
  additional [4-7, 10]
• Ronald Thomas
  violin [5]
• Ronnie Scott
  tenor saxophone [13]
• Roy Copestake
  guest [12], trumpet [12]
• Sam Okell
  engineer [2.12-19, 4.19-21], mix [2.12-19, 4.13-14, 4.19-21], remixer [2.1-11, 2.19, 1.1-19, 3.9], task [22]
• Serena McKinney
  violin [22]
• Sidney Sax
  guest [3.9, 2.13], violin [2.13, 3.7-9, 1.19]
• Songa Lee
  violin [22]
• Stan Roderick
  trumpet [1]
• Stanley Woods
  trumpet [8]
• Stefano Civetta
  assistant [13-14]
• Stephen Shingles
  guest [13], viola [13]
• Stephen Vaughan
  engineer [14]
• Steve Genewick
  engineer [22]
• Steve Orchard
  engineer [22]
• Terence Weil
  cello [9], guest [9]
• Terry Condon
  background vocals [14]
• The Beatles
  performer [9]
• The Mike Sammes Singers
  background vocals [9], guest [9]
• Tony Fisher
  trumpet [1]
• Tony Gilbert
  guest [13], violin [1.19, 2.13]
• Tony Randall
  French horn [3]
• Tony Tunstall
  guest [9], horn [9]
• Tristan Fry
  percussion [7]
• Show all credits (201)

Issues

• 

  1
  (Combined release view)
• 

  1
  1962–1966 / 1967–1970

  4x CD
  2010
• 

  1
  1962–1966 / 1967–1970

  6x 12" Vinyl (colored vinyl)
  10 November 2023
• 1
  1962–1966 / 1967–1970

  6x 12" Vinyl
  10 November 2023
• 

  1
  1962–1966 / 1967–1970

  4x CD (2023 edition CD box set)
  10 November 2023
• 1
  1962–1966 / 1967–1970

  2x SHM-CD
  10 November 2023