Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever was issued as Parlophone R 5570. Initial copies came in a picture sleeve, unusually for the time. Indeed, only two Beatles singles were issued with picture sleeves in the UK, the other being‘Let It Be’. ...
Paul McCartneyis to release a singles box containing 159 tracks across 80 7″ singles. The 7″ Singles Boxis limited to 3,000 copies worldwide, and each contains an additional test pressing and 148-page book, all held in an “FSC-approved Redwood pine and Birch Ply wooden art crate” ma...
The album features fan favourite ‘Letting Go’ and hit single ‘Listen To What The Man Said’, which reached number one in the US singles chart. The vinyl is half-speed mastered edition, cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road and there’s no bonus material just a “meticulous reproduction”...
The Beatles may have ushered in the album era of music, but their singles were no less influential on the course of pop music. Here’s why…
With some 60 gold records and sales of more than 100 million singles in the course of his career, McCartney is arguably the most commercially successful performer and composer in popular music. The 1965 Beatles track “Yesterday” (wholly written by McCartney and performed alone with a string qu...
Martin. The band was preparing to release their first singles, which would be an arduous task in and of itself. But considering the band had just recently lost drummer Pete Best, they were in an even greater flux. Martin, ever the businessman, hired a session drummer to fill in for ...
In 1966, they announced their retirement from touring and live performance in order to concentrate on studio recording, and the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in June 1967 was hailed, then and now, as a pivotal moment in the cultural history of the postwar years. ...
vouch for the level of research, knowledge and insight Perasi brings to the task. As an author he has credibility. Perasi one of the two official Italian translators ofPaul McCartney’sThe Lyrics, and in 2022 he collaborated with MPL on the label copy for the massiveThe 7” Singles Box....
show Hullaballo,while “I Feel Fine” was apparently not screened in the United States until the 1990s when The Beatles’ company Apple provided MTV with these videos of The Beatles in order to promote the re-release of their compila-tionThe Beatles 1962-1966 as a double CD set in 1993...
The announcement of the breakup and of a solo McCartney album were in the same press release of April 10, 1970. If this wasn’t using the public announcement of the breakup to promote a solo record, what was it? Reply mr. Sun king coming together ...