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You can read it here. In , the Beatles created their own record label, Apple Records, to be used for their own releases as well as those by other artists signed to the label. Beatles albums released on the Apple label were pressed by Parlophone in Britain and by Capitol in the United States and were identical in title, cover art, and content.
Beatles albums issued in the s in other countries generally followed the UK format, though a few albums issued in Canada, such as Yesterday and Today, followed the U. In Japan, Beatles albums were issued in both configurations. Later issues were pressed on standard black vinyl. The presence or absence of the obi can greatly affect the selling price.
A few other foreign albums tend to attract attention from collectors, including a compilation album from Denmark that shows the Beatles wearing parkas and another from France that shows them riding horses. In the s, the original Beatles albums from Japan, which were pressed on red vinyl, were the only albums by the band issued anywhere in the world using a color of vinyl other than black. In the late s, record companies began issuing albums by a variety of artists on colored vinyl as limited edition items.
These included a number of titles by the Beatles. In the United States, Capitol Records released the following Beatles albums on colored vinyl in In addition to the colored vinyl albums listed above, a few experimental pressings of Beatles albums have turned up on colored vinyl over the years.
These were experimental pressings that were not intended for commercial sale:. About the same time as the colored vinyl releases, Capitol Records issued two different Beatles albums as limited edition picture discs:. These were released in die-cut covers that allowed buyers to see the record, which had the artwork from the cover pressed into the vinyl itself.
The two titles above were also issued as picture discs in Japan. Abbey Road was issued as a picture disc in Holland, with a different cover and artwork from the U. The first of these appeared in or so, and were recordings of the then-unreleased Let It Be material. Other titles soon followed, initially in plain white covers with rubber-stamped titles on them. Later issues became more elaborate, with either paper title inserts attached to the cover or properly printed covers.
At the time, U. By the mids, Congress changed the laws to make such unauthorized pressings illegal. A few titles, including those issued by the famous bootleg label Trademark of Quality, were released on colored vinyl. The content of these bootleg Beatles albums usually fell into two groups — live recordings from and previously unreleased material. As no authorized live album by the band was available until , bootleg Beatles albums of live material were quite popular in the early s.
Most of the unreleased studio material was of very poor quality, as they were usually made from copies of copies of copies of tapes that had been passed around among collectors.
In the late s, a series of bootleg albums issued under the title of Ultra Rare Trax became available and offered exceptional sound quality recordings of several hours of previously unreleased material.
Using a rigorously tested Studer A80 machine to play back the precious tapes, the new vinyl was cut on a s-era VMS80 lathe. The book is illustrated with many rare studio photos of The Beatles, fascinating archive documents, and articles and advertisements sourced from s publications. The Beatles In Mono: Available individually and collected in a limited LP boxed edition, accompanied by an exclusive page hardbound book.
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