The British Pop Collection

Side 1	Side 2
1. She Loves You	1. All Along The Watchtower
2. You're My World	2. Sons and Lovers
3. Do You Love Me?	3. Downtown
4. With A Little Help From My Friends	4. William Tell Overture
5. Bus Stop	5. Trains and Boats and Planes
6. A World Without Love	6. Build Me Up Buttercup
7. Wake Up My Mind	7. Pamela Pamela
8. The Boys	8. What Do You Want?
9. Do You Want To Dance?	9. Have I The Right
10. Green Green Grass of Home	10. Where Do You Go To, My Lovely?

Side 3	Side 4
1. Under the Boardwalk	1. You Really Got Me
2. Jesamine	2. A Whiter Shade of Pale
3. What a Mouth	3. How Do You Do It
4. Always Something There To Remind Me	4. To Sir With Love
5. Do Wah Diddy Diddy	5. It's Good News Week
6. The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More	6. A Groovy Kind of Love
7. Apple Jack	7. The Cruel Sea
8. Tossin' and Turnin'	8. Matthew and Son
9. Just Like Eddie	9. Memphis Tennessee
10. Stranger on the Shore	10. The Carnival is Over

Side 5	Side 6
1. Friday on my Mind	1. The House of the Rising Sun
2. Yesterday Man	2. A Windmill in Old Amsterdam
3. Sacha	3. Here Comes the Night
4. Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter	4. Needles and Pins
5. I Remember You	5. Telstar
6. Hucklebuck	6. Release Me
7. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me	7. The Hippy Hippy Shake
8. Lily the Pink	8. Dance On
9. Not Responsible	9. Wimoweh
10. She's Not There	10. Catch the Wind

Pressing & Mastering

First Issued	Side 1	Side 2	Side 3	Side 4	Side 5	Side 6	Parts
7-Nov-83	✎ROCK 4-1A-2 AP -MAXICUT-	✎ROCK 4-1B AP -MAXICUT-	✎ROCK 4-2A-2 AP -MAXICUT-	✎ROCK 4-2AB-2 AP -MAXICUT-	✎ROCK 4-3A-2 AP -MAXICUT-	✎ROCK 4-3B-2 AP -MAXICUT-	AU

Overview
Released in Australia on 7 November 1983 as ROCK 4, The British Pop Collection was a joint EMI/PolyGram project, manufactured and marketed by EMI (Australia). Promoted as “60 Original Artists — 60 Original Hits”, the three-LP boxed set offered a broad retrospective of the British pop scene, combining beat groups and rock acts with solo singers, instrumentalists and entertainers.

The selection placed The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Animals alongside Cilla Black, Tom Jones, Cliff Richard and Petula Clark. Its interpretation of British pop also embraced overseas performers associated with the British scene, including Jimi Hendrix, The Seekers and The Easybeats.

‘She Loves You’ opens side one, giving The Beatles a prominent position at the beginning of the collection. The same side includes Joe Cocker’s version of ‘With A Little Help from My Friends’ and Peter and Gordon’s ‘A World Without Love’, extending the Lennon–McCartney connection beyond the group’s own recording.

The Beatles’ contribution was not retained when the collection was reissued on CD on 20 November 1989 as Axis CD ROCK 4. ‘She Loves You’ was replaced by Herman’s Hermits’ ‘My Sentimental Friend’, although the Lennon–McCartney compositions performed by Joe Cocker and Peter and Gordon remained.

The box included a folded four-page insert with artist biographies and photographs – see images below. Compilation and sleeve-note credits named Alex Coroneos, Bruce Ward, David Baxter and Rex Barry, while the packaging acknowledged Top Forty Research for chart information and Reader’s Digest for photographs.

Allan Parsons mastered the collection at Studios 301 using Maxicut. Television promotion helped it reach No. 8 in December 1983, during a thirteen-week chart run.

Copies also exist with the ‘EMI Australasia’ label rim-print wording as introduced in July 1987, indicating that The British Pop Collection remained available, or returned to production, at least four years after its original release.