Rock 'n' Roll Music (album)

Rock 'n' Roll Music
Compilation album by
Released7 June 1976 (1976-06-07)
Recorded11 February 1963 – 28 January 1969
StudioEMI and Apple studios, London
GenreRock & roll
Length73:45
Label
ProducerGeorge Martin
The Beatles chronology
The Singles Collection 1962–1970
(1976)
Rock 'n' Roll Music
(1976)
The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl
(1977)
Singles from Rock 'n' Roll Music
  1. "Got to Get You into My Life"
    Released: 31 May 1976 (US)
  2. "Back in the U.S.S.R."
    Released: 25 June 1976 (UK)[1]
Alternate cover
Rock 'n' Roll Music, Vol. 2 (1980)
Rock 'n' Roll Music, Vol. 2 (1980)

Rock 'n' Roll Music is a compilation album by the English rock band the Beatles containing previously released tracks. It was issued on 7 June 1976 in the United States, on Capitol Records (catalogue number SKBO 11537), and on 11 June on Parlophone (PCSP 719) in the United Kingdom.[2] A double album, the 28-track compilation includes 15 Lennon–McCartney songs, one George Harrison composition ("Taxman"), and a dozen cover versions of songs written by significant rock and roll composers of the 1950s, including Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Carl Perkins and Larry Williams. Not counting the 1971 Spanish compilation album, Por Siempre Beatles, Rock 'n' Roll Music was the first Beatles album to include "I'm Down", which had previously only been available as the B-side of the "Help!" single.[3]

  1. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 46.
  2. ^ Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up 1970−2001, Omnibus Press (London, 2002), p. 186.
  3. ^ Lewisohn 1988, pp. 59–60, 62, 200–201.