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The Beatles' Ballads
Compilation album by The Beatles
Released 14 October 1980
Recorded 1962–1970, Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom
Genre Rock
Length 58:59
Language English
Label Parlophone and Capitol
Producer George Martin and Phil Spector
The Beatles British chronology
Rarities
(1978)		 The Beatles' Ballads
(1980)		 Reel Music
(1982)

The Beatles' Ballads is a 2 LP compilation album featuring a selection of ballad songs by The Beatles. The album was not released in the United States, but in the UK, Canada, and Australia. In the latter, the album was a giant hit, spending 7 weeks at #1.

The cover art by John Patrick Byrne had been created in 1968 as a possible cover for what would become The Beatles (AKA the "White Album"). Its style and concept appears to support the original working title of A Doll's House.

It's also notable as the last Beatles-related release while John Lennon was still alive, debuting less than 2 months before his death.

Track listing

All songs written by Lennon/McCartney except where indicated.

Side one
  1. "Yesterday"
  2. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
  3. "Do You Want to Know a Secret?"
  4. "For No One"
  5. "Michelle"
Side two
  1. "Nowhere Man"
  2. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
  3. "Across the Universe" ("Wildlife" version from a British various artists charity album titled No One's Gonna Change Our World)
  4. "All My Loving"
  5. "Hey Jude"
Side three
  1. "Something" (Harrison)
  2. "The Fool On the Hill"
  3. "Till There Was You" (Willson)
  4. "The Long and Winding Road"
  5. "Here Comes the Sun" (Harrison)
Side four
  1. "Blackbird"
  2. "And I Love Her"
  3. "She's Leaving Home"
  4. "Here, There and Everywhere"
  5. "Let It Be"

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1981 Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart 1
Preceded by
Corroboree by Split Enz		 Australian Kent Music Report number-one album
18 May – 5 July 1981		 Succeeded by
Bad Habits by Billy Field
The Beatles' compilations
Bert Kaempfert recordings
(Polydor/Bear Family)
My Bonnie (Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers, Germany, 1962) • The Beatles' First (Germany, 1964 / UK, 1967) • In the Beginning (Circa 1960) (1970) • The Early Tapes of The Beatles (1984) • Beatles Bop - Hamburg Days (2001)
1962–1970 (Parlophone/
Apple/Capitol)

Hits: A Collection of Beatles Oldies (1966) • 1962–1966 (1973) • 1967–1970 (1973) • 20 Greatest Hits (1982) • 1 (2000)
Themes: Rock 'n' Roll Music (1976) • Love Songs (1977) • The Beatles' Ballads (1980) • Reel Music (1982)
Non-album tracks: Hey Jude (USA, 1970 / UK, 1979) • Rarities (UK, 1978) • Rarities (USA, 1980) • Past Masters, Volume One (1988) • Past Masters, Volume Two (1988)
Alternate versions: Yellow Submarine Songtrack (1999) • Let It Be… Naked (2003)
Other: The Beatles' Christmas Album (USA) / From Then to You (UK) (1970) • Love (2006)

Unreleased: Sessions (due date 1985)
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Capitol/Lingasong)
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