Both the Parlophone and Capital approaches to Beatles albums had their problems. Parlophone looked at them as collections of songs, and refused to put singles on the LPs. The result was that Sgt. Pepper's was not the album it could have been with Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever.
That was the Beatles decision, not Parlophone’s. The Beatles decided what was on their albums. They made albums and they made many stand alone singles.
Before Sgt. Pepper's, there was a new contract that required that Capital release the LPs with the same tracks as Parlophone. They decided that Penny/Strawberry would not be on the LP. It is my understanding that, previously, the record companies ran the show.
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and I loved them RS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g2eU9YGwWQ