20 GREATEST HITS

With the Beatles you always go on the safe side, but in this compilation (published 20 years after their first success) a lot of things does not work. First of all: why is not there any song by Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road? It seems incredible that they are missing both "With A Little Help From My Friends" and "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"; and they are missing "Something" and "Come Together" (two sides A of the same single): in this way there is no songs of Harrison. Great mistake! But also "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" (great masterpiece) are missing (they are also two sides A of the same single). And this is another crime.

Note that in the US edition of "20 Greatest Hites" there are "Penny Lane" and "Come Together". Still on the subject of singles: there are both "Yellow Submarine" and "Eleonor Rigby", two sides A of the same single. And the question comes spontaneously: "Yellow Submarine"???? Please, take it off and get one of the four songs mentioned above!

Another difference with the American edition (which, you will understand, is much better) is the absence of "Eight Days a Week" and "Yesterday", two songs released as singles in the United States, where they reached the first place. Then again, why shorten "Hey Hude"? Reasons for time, I guess, but ... what a bad thing to cut it!!! Another question: why the last song is "The Ballad of John and Yoko"? It is mediocre and unimportant! You could end up with "Let It Be" (present in the US version)!

Bad selection of songs. based on the most commercial singles. Vote 6,5. Rating: Two Stars.