Red and Blue t-shirts and postcards
The official Beatles stores are currently enticing customers by offering something exclusive, red and blue t-shirts to go with the red and blue albums due out this autumn. And some postcards. Back in 1993,...
Category: Beatles records
Book review:The Beatles Covered
I’ve mentioned this book here before, but I’ve finally managed to take the time to review it in Norwegian for Norwegian Wood – The Beatles Fan Club of Norway, so I thought I’d bring...
Alexandra Road
This is the location for the back cover of the Abbey Road album. The photo was taken at the junction of Abbey Road and Alexandra Road (now gone). I have superimposed the back cover...
The Return of Doc Ebbetts
So the much publicised retirement of Doctor Ebbetts was not to last. Two new “needledrops” have been released – free of charge – to his best customers. The two CD’s depicted above –...
The Decca Audition
The emergence of yet another bootleg CD from the famous Decca audition prompted me to write a little bit about these recordings. The new release is an eq’d, pitch corrected and “repaired” version...
Beatles Collection Boxed sets
Back in 1988, when EMI was through releasing the Beatles’ UK catalogue on CD for the first time, the HMV record store chain made a boxed set containing all those CD’s, from “Please Please...
More from Tunes
I told you about the Norwegian music magazine “Tunes” back in December, and the fan photo that Egil Gjerde had taken of Paul leaving his house in Cavendish Avenue, carrying an accordion. Our friendly...
The Beatles – Contemporary Sound
The Beatles – Contemporary Sound Complete Revisionist Remixes Even though the Beatles Remasters avoided remixing the stereo images of the songs, EMI and Apple have, over the years, released Beatles tracks remixed to a...
Beatles Around the World
A Columbian Beatles album List of countries who released Beatles records in the sixties: Angola Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Bolivia Brasil Canada Chile Columbia Congo Costa Rica Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia at that time) Denmark...
The Beatles Box of 1981
Back in 1981, World Records, EMI’s mail order division put together a boxed set of eight newly compiled Beatles albums. The set was advertised vigourously in the national press from 5th November 1980 through...
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