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  The Beatles US Album Box Set: “Yay” vs. “Wait a minute”

  DEVIN McKINNEY  •  Capitol Records announces today that on January 21, it will reissue the Beatles’ America-only LPs in a box set. Surely, thoughts of the 50th anniversary of the band’s touchdown at JFK inspired this felicitous notion. First thought: Yay, another Beatles toy! Second thought: Wait, they’ve done this already, haven’t they, more or […]

  Posted: December 13th, 2013 ˑ  7 Comments
  Filled under: alternate history, Reissues
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  The Beatles (at the BBC) Again

  DEVIN McKINNEY  •  What a bounty this autumn brings us. In addition to the long (as in loooong) awaited first volume of the Lewisohn biography (the multiple iterations of which will blanket like sweet snow our Fall and Winter); Kevin Howlett’s The Beatles: BBC Archives 1962 to 1970, which looks indispensable for the cover alone; […]

  Posted: September 12th, 2013 ˑ  9 Comments
  Filled under: 1962, 1963, 1964, BBC, bootlegs, Reissues