Category: Beatles records

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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...

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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″...

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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...

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Swedish EP inspired Pepper?

Was the famous cover photo of The Beatles’ “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” inspired by a Swedish EP-cover? Swedish record store owner Jörgen Johansson developed this theory when he came across an EP...