Ringo’s audio diary of 1966
A series of compact cassette tapes with recordings Ringo made during the Beatles’ 1966 tour is going under the hammer at Omega Auctions. Audio cassettes was a novelty at the time, and Ringo probably...
Category: Beatles Cassettes
Creating a collector’s item
When the various formats of the “final Beatles song” was announced, I was thinking to get at least the black 7″ vinyl single (just to keep my U.K. singles collection complete), the cassette and...
Fab 4 contributions for Ringo in 1980
Back in 1980, all four ex-Beatles were busy. Paul was busy smuggling pot into Japan and going to jail, after which he released his second only solo album, “McCartney II”. Ringo and his new...
My Record Store Day
My copy of Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever Inspired by this Beatlesblogger post, I thought I should give an account of my experiences of Saturday’s Record Store Day. I live in a small town just...
The cassette revival
Cassette edition of “Let It Be…Naked”, 2003. Never mind the vinyl revival, hot on it’s heels is the cassette revival! For those of us who grew up in the seventies, many of us had...
And the Profits Four told:
1969: 8-track tapes and the new cassette format is all the rage, and for some reason, in the USA, Apple Records released this rather cheeky store display promoting the entire Beatles catalogue on 8...
Paul McCartney cassette interview
A printed cardboard held the cassette. SFX Cassette Magazine was a short-lived British music magazine published in the very early 1980s (not to be confused with SFX magazine, a best-selling science fiction magazine published...
The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl revisited
The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl. Still not out on iTunes or CD, and, perhaps more importantly: not out on Universal Music. Rumour has it that the audio in the films below of The...
The Heineken Cassette
A poster and some of the beer cans In 1986 EMI Parlophone in the UK put together a promotion with Heineken, unusual for the fact that the Beatles have rarely lent their name to...
Expensive Cassingle
A cassette single of “Free As A Bird”, signed by George Harrison is on the market (again). An autographed copy of the single ‘Free as a Bird’, with cover artwork by John Lennon, cassette...
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