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Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963 on sale
The price just went down a notch on the album The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963. It went down from £34.99 to £19.99 in the UK, and a similar reduction is also in effect across the iTunes Stores in...
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Hope For The Future - Promo CD
Paul McCartney's new release is also out as a promotional CD.Good news if you're a McCartney CD collector: The new "download-only" release from the Beatle is available on a promotional CD, featuring...
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Ringo to be inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Ringo got a phone call from Paul, who told him he was about to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of FameRingo Starr is finally going to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015....
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Album covers: Please Please Me
PLEASE PLEASE MEPlease Please Me - Angus McBeanWhen the matter came up of the album cover for the first album of the Beatles, their producer George Martin proposed to call the album Off The Beatle...
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Album covers: With The Beatles
WITH THE BEATLESWith The Beatles - Robert FreemanIn August 1963, during the Summer tour in the coast towns, the Beatles stayed a week in a Bournemouth hotel. At the invitation of Brian Epstein, the...
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Album covers - A Hard Day's Night
A HARD DAY'S NIGHTA Hard Day's Night - Robert FreemanFor the cover of the third Beatles album, Robert Freeman was asked again. He wanted to suggest the idea of movement, by expressing a flow of a...
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Album covers: Beatles For Sale
BEATLES FOR SALEBeatles For Sale - Robert FreemanThe Beatles For Sale photo - uncropped and slightly differentIn the fall of 1964, Brian, Robert Freeman and the Beatles have a meeting to discuss the...
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Album covers: Help!
HELP!Help! - Robert FreemanAgain Robert Freeman is asked to make the design of the next album cover.The photo was taken in the Twickenham Film Studio near London, where the Beatles were finishing the...
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Album covers: Rubber Soul
RUBBER SOULRubber Soul - Robert FreemanRobert Freeman wanted a picture from a different angle and with a new colour tonality. He searched for a combination of brown, black and green, to get a...
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Album covers: Revolver
REVOLVERRevolver - Klaus VoormannRobert Freeman proposed making a photo montage using the Beatles' four faces for the Revolver sleeve. When you would spin the sleeve, the four faces would melt into...
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Album covers: Oldies
A COLLECTION OF BEATLES OLDIES... BUT GOLDIESA Collection of Beatles Oldies - David ChristianIn late 1966, George Martin informed E.M.I. that there would be no new Beatles record in time for Christmas....
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Album covers: Pepper
SGT. PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BANDSgt Pepper - Peter Blake / Michael Cooper"We were getting a little fed up of being The Beatles… It was all getting so bloody predictable. I said, why don’t we...
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Album covers: Magical Mystery Tour
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOURMagical Mystery Tour EP - John Kelly"The Mystery Tour packaging was all Paul's idea, " recalls Tony Barrow "Everything happened in a mad rush after Brian Epstein died, because Paul...
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Album covers: Yellow Submarine
YELLOW SUBMARINEYellow Submarine - Heinz EdelmannThe Beatles eleventh official album release was issued as the soundtrack album of the cartoon film Yellow Submarine. So for the cover a special drawing...
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Album covers: Get Back (Unreleased)
GET BACK (UNRELEASED)Get Back album (unreleased) - Angus McBean. There are no known official back cover designs.In the mindset of the 'back to the roots feeling' of the January 1969 sessions, it was...
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What Macca did next
The Wings trio perform "Mull of Kintyre on Top of the Pops, 1977.There's a 2 hour BBC Radio special about Paul McCartney's band, Wings now available. This is a "Director's cut" longer version than the...
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Album covers: Abbey Road
THE BEATLES' UK ALBUM COVERSby Patrick RoefflaerFor the writing of this article I have used information found in the following books: 'Yesterday' by Robert Freeman, The Beatles Anthology book, 'Many...
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Album covers: Let It Be
THE BEATLES' UK ALBUM COVERSby Patrick RoefflaerFor the writing of this article I have used information found in the following books: 'Yesterday' by Robert Freeman, The Beatles Anthology book, 'Many...
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The Beatles and "the Cliff Richard law"
A single from KutmusicIt's been dubbed by the media as "Cliff Richard's Law", the change to copyright duration in sound recordings.From 1 November 2013, The Copyright and Duration of Rights in...
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The Apple logo
THE APPLE LOGOby Patrick RoefflaerPerhaps this is the right place to add something about the Apple logo. Apple Records of course was The Beatles own record company, launched in the summer of 1968. It...
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