For the first half of The Beatles’ recording career, fans in the United States often bought albums with different titles, different covers and dramatically different track listings from those released in the UK and Australia. As a result, UK Beatles albums regularly featured 14 tracks, providing greater value for consumers and presenting the albums in the sequence intended by producer George Martin and, increasingly, by the band themselves. With The Beatles became Meet The Beatles!, while Beatles For Sale was split across the American albums Beatles ’65 and Beatles VI. Material was continually reshuffled, allowing Capitol to release more Beatles albums than existed in Britain while maintaining a steady flow of new product. The American Beatles albums remain an intriguing alternative history of the group’s catalogue.