Unlike the norwegian singles, your standard variety UK single did NOT have a picture sleeve. During the Beatles reign, only 2 of the original 22 UK singles came in a picture sleeve. All the other singles came in standard Parlophone or Apple bags. Besides, The Beatles themselves had more control over the singles release plan in the UK than in other countries. They insisted on not releasing songs from their LP's as singles, because they felt that this was "cheating" their fans. Of course, there were exceptions, but all in all this means that in the UK during the years 1962-1970, only 22 singles were released, whereas in Norway during the same time, there were 34 singles.
1)Love Me Do / P.S. I Love You (Parlophone R4949/5. October)
2)Please
Please Me / Ask Me Why (Parlophone R4983/11. January)
3)From
Me To You / Thank You Girl (Parlophone R5015/12. April)
4)She
Loves You / I'll Get You (Parlophone R5055/28. August 28)
5)I Want To Hold Your Hand / This Boy (Parlophone R5084/29. November)
6)Can't
Buy Me Love / You Can't Do That (Parlophone R5114/16. Mars)
7)A
Hard Day's Night / Things We Said Today (Parlophone
R5160/10. July)
8)I Feel Fine / She's A Woman (Parlophone R5200/23. November)
9)Ticket
To Ride / Yes It Is (Parlophone
R5265/9. April)
10)Help
/ I'm Down (Parlophone R5305/19. July 19)
11)Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out (Parlophone R5389/ 3. December)
12)Paperback
Writer / Rain (Parlophone R5452/30. May)
13)Eleanor Rigby / Yellow Submarine (Parlophone R5489/5. August 5)
14)Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane (Parlophone R5570/17. February)
The first british single with a picture sleeve was this one: Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
15)All
You Need Is Love / Baby You're A Rich Man
(Parlophone R5620/7. July)
16)Hello Goodbye / I Am The Walrus (Parlophone R5655/24. November)
17)Lady
Madonna / The Inner Light (Parlophone
R5675/15. Mars)
18)Hey
Jude /Revolution (Apple R5722/30.
August)
19)Get
Back / Don't Let Me Down (Apple R5777/11. April)
20)The
Ballad Of John And Yoko / Old Brown Shoe (Apple
R5786/30. May)
21)Something / Come Together (Apple R5814/6. October)
22)Let It Be / You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)(Apple R5833/6. Mars)
And this is the second, and final british single with a picture sleeve: Let It Be/You Know My Name (look up the number)
THE
SINGLES COLLECTION 1962-1970 (Re-release of the above 22 singles, and the next
single)
(EMI/6. March 6)
1976 saw the release of "the green series", where all singles looked like this on the front.
...and this is the typical back
23)Yesterday
/ I Should Have Known Better (Parlophone R6013/8. March 1976)
24) Back In The USSR / Twist And Shout (Parlophone R6016/25. June 1976)
25) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - With A Little Help From My Friends / A Day In The Life (Parlophone R6022/30. September, 1978)
26) The Beatles Movie Medley / I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
(Parlophone R6055/May 25, 1982)
The promo-edition of this single had a Beatles interview on the B-side.
THE
BEATLES SINGLES COLLECTION
(Box
with 26 singles, see above) (Parlophone BSCP1/December 4, 1982)
There was also a later CD edition of the box, but then with only the 22 original singles.
PIn the 80's the singles were re-released again, but then with newly designed picture sleeves. Penny Lane and Let It Be kept their original look.
27)Free
As A Bird / Christmastime Is Here Again (Apple R6422/December 5, 1995)
28)Real Love / Baby's In Black (Apple R6425/March 5, 1996)
1)
LOVE ME DO Parlophone 12R 4949/November 11, 1982
Love
Me Do (Ringo-edition)/P.S. I Love You
2)
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE Parlophone 12R 5620/June 6, 1987
All
You Need Is Love/Baby You're A Rich Man
3)
HEY JUDE Parlophone 12R 5722/August 30, 1988
Hey Jude/Revolution
All the original 22 singles were released, both in the now defunct 3" single format and later as 5" singles.
In
addition, there are 4 maxi-CD-singles (5"):
1)
LOVE ME DO
Parlophone/November 11, 1982
Love
Me Do (Ringo-version)/P.S. I Love You Love Me Do (Regular version)
2)
BABY IT'S YOU (Apple/March 20, 1995) (BBC-recordings)
Baby It's You / I'll Follow The Sun / Devil In Her Heart / Boys
The vinyl-edition of this release looks like an EP, while the CD-edition looks like a maxi CD-single.
3)
FREE AS A BIRD (Apple 1995)
Free
As A Bird//I Saw Her Standing There/This Boy/Christmastime (is here again)
4)
REAL LOVE (Apple 1996)
Real
Love/Baby's In Black/Yellow Submarine/Here There and Everywhere
The latter two are not available as vinyl maxies, forcing vinyl collectors to buy a CD player because of the four tracks on these two records that aren't on their vinyl single editions..