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...
Category: Beatles records
The forgotten Beatles album
A Collection of Beatles Oldies (but Goldies!) was a very real and important official UK album by The Beatles in 1966. It was also released in several other countries (especially in Europe) and it...
The Charts – week one
OK, so The Beatles are in the charts again, following last week’s Remasters releases. I’m of course going to first focus on the all important Norwegian chart: “VG-lista”. VG is the biggest newspaper in...
Remastered boxed sets – first look
Mono Stereo These are cell phone pictures from the new Beatlefest catalog HMV in Japan has the new remastered stereo and mono boxed sets listed on their website for pre-ordering, but without images. The...
The Beatles Norwegian 45’s
February 1963 R 4983 Parlophone 1. Please Please Me/Ask Me Why It may have been possible to import “Love Me Do” from Great Britain, but “Please Please Me” was the first of the Norwegian-pressed...
Norwegian singles: All My Loving
Starting a series of Beatles records from Norway, I thought I’d focus on differences between editions. The Beatles’ and other EMI records were distributed in Norway by a company called Carl M. Iversen A/S,until...
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