Only The Beatles...

Cassette insert (unfolded) for Only the Beatles...

Only The Beatles... is an unauthorized Beatles compilation album released in 1987 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. After 17 days, Apple Records' legal representation intervened.^[5] Production and distribution were halted, and the album became a collector's item.

Track listing

1. "Love Me Do"
2. "Twist and Shout"
3. "She Loves You"
4. "This Boy"
5. "Eight Days a Week"
6. "All My Loving"
7. "Ticket to Ride"
8. "Yes It Is"
9. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
10. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
11. "And I Love Her"
12. "Strawberry Fields Forever"

References

1. Heineken beer can promotion at The Beatles Collectors' Reference Center; published 17 September 1999; retrieved 12 January 2013
2. "Only The Beatles" - Heineken Beer / EMI Promotion 1987, at RareBeatles.com, by Mitch McGeary; retrieved 12 January 2013
3. 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
4. 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
5. The Beatles Diary, Volume 2: After the Break-Up, 1970-2001, by Barry Miles and Keith Badman; Omnibus Press; 2001