After conversion to CD format, you can get the entire Beatles collection on just 15 CDs (13 original original albums + 2 singles compilation not available on albums. The Beatles were around together as a group for just 8 years, 1962 to 1970, but their output and hits were phenomenally unrivalled. During their years, on average, every 3 weeks there was a Beatles album at Billboard Number One and every six weeks there was a Beatles song at Billboard Number One. John Lennon in his usual sense of sarcastic humor claimed he's more popular than Jesus Christ and the churches burned Beatles records. Still they were at Number One.
The Beatles were the only group in the world after breakup, all members going solo could still hit Billboard Number One on their own.
My Beatles favourite "Across The Universe" was beamed into space by NASA.
http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/1303609
2:05pm UK, Friday February 01, 2008
A Beatles song is about to be beamed across the universe at a speed of 186,000 miles per second.
It will be the first time a track has ever been transmitted directly into space, Nasa says.
Across the Universe will be transmitted over the agency's Deep Space Network to mark the 40th anniversary of the song's recording.
It will be aimed at the North Star, Polaris, which is 431 light years away from Earth.
Sir Paul McCartney, in a message to Nasa, said: "Amazing! Well done, Nasa! Send my love to the aliens. All the best, Paul."
Yoko added: "I see that this as the beginning of the new age in which we will communicate with billions of planets across the universe."
Anything listening out there would hear the lyrics which include the chorus line: "Nothing's gonna change my world."
