Two of the earliest completed songs, "Satisfy Me" and "Find You Waiting", were included in the band's live shows by April 2008.
The earlier "Complete Poems" opened with a striking authorial dictum: "Omissions are not accidents".
Paradoxically, the early complete opera is the biggest problem here: "La Finta Semplice" is strictly for Mozart scholars.
The earliest complete pictorial windows extant are those containing five figures of prophets in the Cathedral of Augsburg in Germany, belonging to the beginning of the 12th century.
Duncan Wilson, Chief Executive of Historic England said: "This remarkable but fragile wooden wheel is the earliest complete example ever found in Britain.
He visited the British Library to see the earliest complete edition of the New Testament, and I relished the way he and an expert brought the book to life for listeners.
The earliest complete paixiao was a stone single-wing model with 13 pipes, 3 to 15 cm (1.2 to 5.8 inches) long, from a tomb in Henan province dated about 552 bc.
For example, that the earliest complete manuscript of the Odyssey dates from the 10th century, or that the Cyclops who captured Odysseus and his crew made feta cheese, or that asterisks were first used in the third century BC to highlight lines that were repeated in both of Homer's works.
But the expedition also produced the earliest complete maps of the northern part of the continent, and it introduced to Europe a grey-white metal that the South Americans called platinum and a liquid latex that could be moulded and shaped and was useful in protecting against rain and humidity.
Scelidosaurus has been called the earliest complete dinosaur.
