THE BEATLES '1'

The compilation "1" collects all 45 rpm discs of the Beatles that have reached the number 1 in the English or US sales charts. Putting together the numbers one reached in the UK and in the USA, you can also insert in this album "Eight Days A Week", "Yesterday" and "The Long and Winding Road", released as singles only in America.

It should also be noted that in three cases the Beatles released 45 laps without sides B ie with two sides A. This is the case of "Day Tripper/ We Can Work It Out", "Penny Lane/ Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Something/Come Together". In these three cases, compilation "1" has inserted all sides A with the exception of "Strawberry Fields Forever", and this is a great displeasure for me. The fact remains that it is still a CD of about 80 minutes, and with no less than 27 songs: perhaps the duration of the disc was already excessive.

In any case, apart from this painful exception, the compilation follows in a very coherent way its purpose of grouping every side A of the 45 rpm discs that have reached the first place on the charts in UK or USA and therefore comes out a record of musical value (there are mostly songs from the period 1963-66, when the Beatles brought out many singles), and commercial and historical value.

Vote album: 9. Rating: Five Stars.