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Compilation Deluxe

album by The Beatles

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ21486217 ↗
Source-derived summary

Compilation Deluxe (Цомпліатыён делюкс) is a name of a 1971 bootlegged Beatles album containing their hits from 1966 until 1970 that was widely distributed across the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, particularly in Minsk and Barysaw. Bootlegging music was common in the former Soviet Union as the authorities compared western music to social parasitism. Compilation Deluxe was largely recorded on coated paper as the pressing facilities to create vinyl records was usually unavailable in Belarus.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Compilation Deluxe” as album by The Beatles. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1966, 1970—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Compilation, Deluxe and album can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as album by The Beatles. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q21486217. The first chronological checks are 1971, 1966 and 1970.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for
  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Compilation Deluxe”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Compilation Deluxe primary sources, Compilation Deluxe archive and Compilation research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Compilation Deluxe”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Compilation Deluxe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.