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Only The Beatles... is an unauthorized Beatles compilation album released in 1986 in audiocassette format, as a joint promotional campaign by Heineken Beer and EMI; consumers could obtain a copy of the album in exchange for four pull tabs from specially marked cans and £2.99.

The promotion began on 1 July 1986. After 17 days, Apple Records' legal representation intervened and ordered EMI to stop distribution of the cassette. Production and distribution were successfully halted, and the tape has since become 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" – The Heineken Cassette, at Blogspot.com, by Roger Stormo; retrieved 28 December 2016
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

• The Beatles compilation albums