The Great British Rock Invasion

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 Friend	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 Tennesee
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
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 in 1984 on Wizard Records as TAKE 1/1–3, The Great British Rock Invasion brought together fifty-two recordings across three LPs. Its selection extended from the beat boom of the 1960s through blues, psychedelia, progressive rock and glam to the newer sounds of the early 1980s.

The compilation drew on The Marquee Collection 1958–1983, a four-volume British series issued by England Records in 1983 to celebrate the London club’s twenty-fifth anniversary. Conceived and compiled by David Crowe and Bill Hurley, the original project was licensed from Rock Festival Records Ltd, UK, and reshaped for Australia into three LPs. Seven additional recordings were supplied through EMI and PolyGram in Australia, including The Beatles’ ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’.

‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ opens side one, placing The Beatles at the beginning of a selection that includes The Who, The Yardbirds, Small Faces and The Moody Blues. Later recordings by Dire Straits, The Jam, Kim Wilde, Toyah and Marillion broadened the scope beyond the original British invasion.

Priced at $19.99, the release received heavy television promotion. Despite opening the first LP, The Beatles were not mentioned or featured in the television advertising.

EMI (Australia) mastered the three LPs using its Maxicut process. The programme mixed familiar singles with longer performances, including the full-length ‘Layla’ by Derek and the Dominos. The running order moved between eras and styles, presenting British rock across more than two decades.