Sgt Pepper anniversary edition revealed
4 discs with the Pepper and alternate front cover shots, and 2 with drum logos + various paper items. Also depicted: vinyl album. Amazon again jumped the gun a bit when they published photos of...
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Ringo listens to remastered Sgt Pepper album
From the photo session: The Beatles with Adam, the son of photographer Michael Cooper. If you’re looking for news about the upcoming anniversary edition of “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, here’s a story...
It was 50 years ago today: Shooting the Sgt Pepper album cover
Just a quick post to honour the fiftieth anniversary of the photo session for the “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album cover. Peter Blake and his then wife Jann Haworth conceived the idea, and...
More commercials for the vinyl collection
DeAgostini Beatles Vinyl Collection, here with Abbey Road. For their current re-release of The Beatles’ albums on vinyl, DeAgostini has compiled two interviews with Kevin Howlett and Sean Magee into two commercials of different...
Revised Sgt Pepper album?
The Sunday Times: Anniversary re-release of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club band” due. According to The Sunday Times, a New edition of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is planned for release this year,...
Beatles vinyl albums by subscription
De Agostini (with the cooperation of Apple and Universal) have started a Beatles Vinyl Collection series. Available for subscription in the UK and Ireland at £9.99 / €9.99 for the first issue (for a...
The compressed “White album”
The Beatles: “The Beatles” (aka “the White album”) Photo: Recordmecca.com In the December 1968 issue of The Beatles Monthly Book (depicted below), Mal Evans tells a story about a trip to Los Angeles with...
The extra EP
The vinyl E.P. collection boxed set. The E.P. (“extended play”) was a vinyl format which was very popular in my part of the world, but not in the U.S.A. The E.P. was a 7″...
Vinyl sales doubled in the UK
Oldest in the Top 10: Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). Illustration: Outtake photo by Michael Cooper. The British Phonographic Industry just released the figures for the 2016 music sales, and the sale of...
Capitol Records celebrates 75th anniversary: Releases
As part of Capitol’s 75th anniversary, “Meet The Beatles” will be available on vinyl again. CAPITOL RECORDS TO LAUNCH YEAR-LONG 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION IN NOVEMBER Hollywood, CA – Capitol Records, one of the world’s...
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