Album covers: With The Beatles
WITH THE BEATLES In August 1963, during the Summer tour in the coast towns, the Beatles stayed a week in a Bournemouth hotel. At the invitation of Brian Epstein, the young jazz-photographer Robert Freeman...
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Album covers: Please Please Me
PLEASE PLEASE ME Please Please Me – Angus McBean When the matter came up of the album cover for the first album of the Beatles, their producer George Martin proposed to call the album...
Mal Evans’ article about the Get Back album
In July 1969, the Beatles’ Get Back album was being readied for release in August, and Mal Evans wrote an article about the upcoming album for the official fan club magazine, “The Beatles Book...
12 days of Christmas
Universal Music’s 12 days of Christmas campaign. In a new article from the Daily Mirror about the revitalised vinyl records industry, we noticed the following sentence: “Music giant Universal Music is releasing a number...
The butcher cover
The original “Yesterday And Today” cover. Photo: Robert Whitaker On the 25th March 1966, a photo session which was to become a notorious part of The Beatles’ history took place: the infamous ‘butcher cover’...
The two “Get Back” photo sessions
In early May 1969, photographer Angus McBean and the Beatles returned to EMI House to recreate the cover photo from the “Please Please Me” LP for their upcoming LP, “Get Back”. However Angus found...
Beatles red and blue is AAA
The Beatles 1962-1966 aka “the Red album”. Analog Planet has had a word with Abbey Road mastering engineer Sean Magee, who told them that the two upcoming Beatles compilations, the “Red” (1962-1966) and “Blue”...
The Beatles on Calderstone: Singles next?
The Beatles – The Singles was a 7″ vinyl box set, Record Store Day Black Friday 2011 exclusive. The joint venture between The Beatles/Apple and Universal Music, Calderstone Production Limited, has been very busy...
The “Sessions” LP
The “Sessions” LP remained unreleased. “Sessions” was a compilation album by The Beatles planned for release by EMI in 1985, but never issued due to objections by Apple. The album consisted of thirteen finished,...
New vinyl editions appear
The new batch of Beatles vinyl albums are being readied for release. As we noted in September, Universal Music/Apple are set to rerelease some of The Beatles’ double vinyl albums for the Christmas market...
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