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The Compact Cassette, also commonly called
a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or
cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for
audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and
his team at the Dutch company Philips, the Compact
Cassette was released in August 1963. Compact Cassettes come in two forms, either containing content as a prerecorded cassette (Musicassette), or as a fully recordable "blank" cassette. The original Beatles cassette release of "Sgt. Peppers" in 1967, through "Abbey Road (1969)", "Let It Be (August 1970)", and the first release of most of the other Beatles cassette albums in September and October, 1970, just months after EMI opened their new tape duplicating facilities at Hayes in Middlesex in July, 1970. |
EMI Label (Parlophone, Apple, mfp, and Fame e.t.c.) |
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Original Album Series |
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1967-1971 | 1972 |
1977 | 1987 |
Please
Please Me-Let It Be (except for Yellow Submarine) |
Reissue:
Gold Top Inlay Series |
Reissue:
Ochre Top Inlay Series Direct Print Label |
XDR
Series |
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Sorry,
I don't have it. |
Compilation Albums | Box Set |
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1973-1974 | 1976-1988 | 1980 |
1982 |
Magical Mystery Tour, The Red/Blue Album, and Yellow Submarine | Rock'n
Roll Music - Past Masters |
From Liverpool | The
Beatles Collection (Blue cardboard box) |
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Under Construction | Sorry, I don't have it. |
1986 |
1994 | 1995-1996 | |
Heineken
Cassette Tape "Only The Beatles" |
Live At BBC | The Beatles Anthology | |
Under Construction | Under Construction | Under Construction | ![]() |
Single / EP Cassette Tapes |
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1991 |
1995 |
1995-1996 | |
1990's: Singles Collection | Live At BBC | The
Beatles Anthology (Free As A Bird / Real Love) |
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Under Construction | Under Construction | ![]() |
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The Non-EMI Label | |
Polydor Label |
Pickwick/Contour Label |
The Beatles featuring Tony
Sheridan |
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Sorry,
I don't have it. |
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