Category: Beatles records

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Beatles Radio / Beatles records / Uncategorized

Beatles BBC Show online

Looks like our post yesterday about an upcoming “Vol. 2” of the Beatles Live at The BBC spread like wildfire over the Beatles internet sites (apart from the official ones, of course). Speculations are...

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Beatles records / EMI / vinyl

The green series

Booklet included with boxed set On the 6th of February 1976 the 9 year contract The Beatles had signed with EMI back in 1967 came to an end. However, EMI retained the right to...

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Beatles Concerts / Beatles records / Uncategorized

Amazing discovery

This is “Kansas City” from an acetate recorded at the Cavern Club in 1962. Little survives from the Beatles’ days at the Cavern apart from photos and paper memorabilia, so far we have only...

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Beatles records / Uncategorized

Beatles album named by fan

In 1963, Margaret Gordon won a competition to name the next Beatles LP. Her winning suggestion of “Beatles For Sale” earned her a meeting with the group in Carlisle in November 1963. She brought...

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The Beatles Shell Help! LP

I recently aquired this album, a genuine Dutch pressing of the Beatles’ Help! LP from 1979, where a Shell logo is shown in the background. This special issue of the Help! album was produced...

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Making Please Please Me

It was fifty years ago today…the release of the Beatles’ first LP, “Please Please Me”. To celebrate, The Beatles have uploaded this little video for us to enjoy. Amazon UK too, celebrates. Today only,...

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Beatles records / vinyl

The original 1982 mono boxed sets

Black mono boxed set from 1982 While we’re waiting for the announcement of the new remastered mono Beatles vinyl albums, I thought I’d reminisc about the original vinyl mono boxed sets. Since stereo was...