The Beatles in the news
Long time Beatles fan Colin Barratt has taken his personal collection of news cuttings about The Beatles from the UK in the sixties and turned them into a series of books – paperback and Kindle editions. The books are printed on demand by Lulu.com. Interviews; adverts; tour listings are all here.
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| News cutting |
Through this Amazon.co.uk link, you can take a sneak peek inside the first volume.
This is a nice opportunity to read stories and see what the press said about them, all those years ago. The vast majority of cuttings will not have been seen since their one and only publication.
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| Another cutting |
So far, Colin has published the following volumes:
- The Beatles in the news (1962-1963)
- The Beatles in the news 1964 (Volume One)
- The Beatles in the news 1964 (Volume Two)
- The Beatles in the news 1965
- The Beatles in the news 1966
- The Beatles in the news 1967
- The Beatles in the news 1968
- The Beatles in the news 1969
- Early Beatles in the news Volume One
- Early Beatles in the news Volume Two
- Early Beatles in the news Volume Three
- Early Beatles in the news Volume Four
- Early Beatles in the news Volume Five
- Advertising the Beatles
- John Lennon in the news (1969-1975)
- Paul McCartney in the news (1969-1973)
- George Harrison in the news
- Ringo Starr in the news
- The Beatles – Here, There and Everywhere 1964 (Volume One)
- The Beatles – Here, There and Everywhere 1964 (Volume Two)
- The Beatles – Here, There and Everywhere 1964 (Volume Three)
Colin has also started a Facebook group, where he publishes both cuttings from his books as well as other, interesting Beatles material.
Customers seem kind of disappointed that the books contain low-quality B&W photocopies, with little to no info on the sources, and sometimes illegible text. Also hard to zoom in sometimes, they say, although most of them think the books are cool anyway.
That sounds like a lot of spam voodoo.