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I recently got 'The Beatles: BBC Archives' by Kevin Howlett. Along with the book and the replica documents, the seller included an unofficial CD of some of the Fab Four's BBC recordings as an extra item.

@KyleKartan Unfortunately, I get a 404 page. 

@KyleKartan The link works for me now. You have a great collection. 

Thank you for sharing your fab collection so far, @Queen Emily. 

My latest addition is the 2CD 50th anniversary edition of Living In The Material World . 

My new addition is the Look Up CD. It came with an exclusive t-shirt in a limited edition box. I ordered it from Ringo's official online store.

https://store.ringostarr.com/

A cool item in my collection. 

Just before COVID pandemic. 

I always listened to Beatles going from school with my Dad. Back then, the first year, it was exciting to read new song titles I'd never heard before. The radio display in the truck only showed 16 characters of title, so I'd be bewildered by new titles; what is Magical Mystery? What is Maxwell's Silver? I'd heard of Yellow Submarine , but what is Octopus's Garden , a sequel?

I ended up hounding my Dad to download ITunes of songs -- once he left me with his account and credit card, spent $300 on the 50th super deluxe editions, only to order the hard copies a year later. I went to the local used record store and bought the CDs - I REVERED the CDs! I stayed up at night thinking, "Ok I phoned ahead, they are holding Let It Be (or Magical Mystery Tour ) and at 11am I will pick it up. Nobody will take it but me!". 

One time the nice record dealer gave me Beatles For Sale free, because the CD was scratched - plays 100% fine!

I once got a magazine with all their songs listed by album. I flipped through, mesmerized by the huge colourful prints of artwork - White Album especially. I also became bewildered again by the new song titles - what is this "Piggies "? I got to Abbey Road , thought, OK, that's the end. One page left... Stuck to the back was... Let It Be ?? I'd never heard of "I've Got A Feeling " or "Maggie Mae " or even "One After 909 ".. I didn't sleep a wink that night, wanting to listen to it, but no way how.

It wasn't until the middle of COVID that I read the Beatles Bible -- one time I had to drive to the Gym and was thinking, "what is this, "Carnival Of Light "? I had all the albums by lockdown, but that summer I finally began downloading MP3s and YouTube audio, got the Get Back sessions, bootlegs and unreleased songs. Read up about "You're In My Little Book" and "Pinwheel Twist". Begged for loans to get Amazon deliveries of "Complete Star Club tapes" and -- actually spent 7 months staring at the wonderful RED cover of the 7" colour vinyl Christmas records, bookmarked the tab of the unavailable CD on Amazon. -- 

As you can tell, I am a die-hard Beatles fan, makes sense I post so much and know so much.

EDIT:

Anecdotes about certain songs:

-- First time I read @Joe 's list of every Beatles song, I was thinking later, "something about shelter..." A few months later, my Dad and I were driving, Helter Skelter came on the radio. My dad seemed to get quiet, and muttered quietly about Manson... "heard stuff in the lyrics"... murder... I was curious, but no way of finding out. Made the mistake of googling Manson at midnight in the dark, in my pajamas, in my bed. Immediately got COLD SWEATS looking at him! Stuff of nightmares...