"Beatles Worldwide II: An Anthology of Original Singles & EP-Releases"
follows the same format as "Beatles Worldwide I" (which concentrated
on album releases) by giving you an exhaustive look at the multitude of
Beatles 45 rpm's and EP's that were released around the world. Of
course the '60s were a unique time in rock 'n roll - not only for the music
itself, but the fact that record companies around the world had a carte
blanche to release records by bands using whatever packaging and
song order they liked! As we saw in "Beatles Worldwide I", Beatles
albums around the world were released with some pretty interesting
variations of not only pictures and graphics used and some bizarre
couplings of songs (The Venezuela "Helter Skelter"/Honey Pie" single).
This modus operandi also applied to the 45-rpm format. And a lot of
times simply economics played a role in releases, as some countries
would split up an entire album on EP's - that way, you could buy the