20 Greatest Hits was a compilation album featuring a selection of songs by The Beatles that were number ones in the UK and U.S.. It was released on 11 October 1982 in the United States and one week later in the United Kingdom.
20 Greatest Hits was released to mark the 20th anniversary of The Beatles' first record release, "Love Me Do," in the UK in 1962; it was the last Beatles album to be released with variations in the US and UK versions (some ...
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20 Greatest Hits was a compilation album featuring a selection of songs by The Beatles that were number ones in the UK and U.S.. It was released on 11 October 1982 in the United States and one week later in the United Kingdom.
20 Greatest Hits was released to mark the 20th anniversary of The Beatles' first record release, "Love Me Do," in the UK in 1962; it was the last Beatles album to be released with variations in the US and UK versions (some Beatles hits in the US weren't released as singles in the UK, such as "Eight Days a Week" and "Yesterday").
For the US album, catalogue number SV 12245, a five-minute edited version of "Hey Jude" was used due to time constraints; this edited version dates from 1968 when it was created for use by Capitol Records on the four-inch flexi "Pocket Discs" that were sold in vending machines at that time. The US cassette release, not constrained by the limits of LPs, contains the normal seven-minute version.
The American version of this LP was released...
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