"1" by The Beatles – ****

First released: 2000

I’d be the first to admit that I was quite surprised that this actually went all the way to number one to fit along with its namesake. I mean, every one of these tunes appeared on the "1962-1966" and "1967-1970" collections that were just issued onto CD a few years before. What I didn’t reckon with was the fact that this was the first legitimately issued greatest hits CD of The Beatles that appeared on a single disc. It also was released in the final days before downloading music became commonplace.