THE BEATLES : 1962-1966

  1. Love Me Do
  2. Please Please Me
  3. From Me to You
  4. She Loves You
  5. I Want to Hold Your Hand
  6. All My Loving
  7. Can't Buy Me Love
  8. A Hard Day's Night
  9. And I Love Her
  10. Eight Days a Week
  11. I Feel Fine
  12. Ticket to Ride
  13. Yesterday
  14. Help!
  15. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
  16. We Can Work It Out
  17. Day Tripper
  18. Drive My Car
  19. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
  20. Nowhere Man
  21. Michelle
  22. In My Life
  23. Girl
  24. Paperback Writer
  25. Eleanor Rigby
  26. Yellow Submarine

Label : Apple

Release Year : 1973

Length : 62:44

Review (Wikipedia) : 1962-1966 (widely known as "The Red Album") is a compilation of songs by the English rock band The Beatles, spanning the years indicated in the title. It was released with its counterpart 1967-1970 ("The Blue Album") in 1973. 1962-1966 reached number 3 in the United Kingdom and managed to reach number 1 in the United States Cashbox albums chart. However, in the US, the official chart was administered by Billboard, where 1962-1966 peaked at number 3, while 1967-1970 reached the top spot. This album was re-released in September 1993 on compact disc, charting at number 3 in the UK. The album was compiled by Beatles manager Allen Klein. Even though the group had had success with cover versions of songs, most notably with "Twist and Shout", which made number 2 on the Billboard charts, only songs composed by the Beatles themselves were included. As with 1967-1970, this compilation was produced by Apple/EMI at least partially in response to a bootleg collection titled Alpha Omega, which had been sold on television the previous year. Print advertising for the two records made a point of declaring them "the only authorized collection of the Beatles." For the group's 1963 debut LP Please Please Me, photographer Angus McBean took the distinctive colour photograph of the group looking down over the stairwell inside EMI House (EMI's London headquarters in Manchester Square, now demolished). Also in 1963, the cover for The Beatles (No. 1) used a picture from the same shoot. In 1969, The Beatles asked McBean to recreate this shot. Although the 1969 photograph was originally intended for the planned Get Back album, it was not used when that project saw eventual release in 1970 as Let It Be. Instead, the 1969 photograph, along with an unused photograph from the 1963 photo shoot, was used for both this LP and the cover of 1967-1970. The inner gatefold photo for both LPs is from the "Mad Day Out" photo session in London on Sunday 28 July 1968. The album cover was designed by Tom Wilkes.