Beatles 20 x 20

EU-only two CD set. During February, 2014 America celebrated the 50th anniversary of the British Invasion when the Beatles appeared on THE ED SULLIVAN TV SHOW and changed the course of Pop music forever. Although American teenagers embraced the Beatles sound as a new and exciting genre of music, it was initially based on U.S. Rock 'n' Roll. So across this set we present 50 original classics of U.S. Rock 'n' Roll, Pop, R&B and Soul recordings that the Beatles would later go on to cover and sell back to America. Artists include: Little Richard; Carl Perkins; the Everly Brothers; the Isley Brothers; Buddy Holly; Chuck Berry; Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochran and more!

With The Beatles Sessions. 2011. Secret Garden.

By the end of 1963, the Beatles had probably gone as far as they had dared to dream in establishing the widest possible audience for their music in Britain. When America beckoned, at the dawn of 1964, they were ready and primed to embrace stardom on an unseen scale. Capitol scheduled I Want To Hold Your Hand for US release on 26 December 1963, backed by a $30,000 national marketing campaign - $250,000 in today’s money. Five million fliers and windscreen stickers proclaiming “The Beatles Are Coming!” above a Capitol logo adorned with a Beatle wig, were pasted anywhere they might be seen. Point-of-sale displays were placed in record stores. A four-page Capitol promo pamphlet sent to the trade focused on the Beatles as a cultural phenomenon, placing inordinate emphasis on their haircuts. If anything sold the Beatles to America, even before their music had been widely heard, it was their hair, an identifying motif that became the talk of the nation. Capitol spent $30,000 publicising a haircut!, but their investment paid off, when on 4 April, Billboard’s Hot 100 showed the Beatles at #1 (with She Loves You), 2, 3, 4, 5, 31, 41, 46, 58, 65, 68 and 79, setting the seal on a full-blown cultural phenomenon.

By the end of 1963, the Beatles had probably gone as far as they had dared to dream in establishing the widest possible audience for their music in Britain. When America beckoned, at the dawn of 1964, they were ready and primed to embrace stardom on an unseen scale. Capitol scheduled I Want To Hold Your Hand for US release on 26 December 1963, backed by a $30,000 national marketing campaign - $250,000 in today’s money. Five million fliers and windscreen stickers proclaiming “The Beatles Are Coming!” above a Capitol logo adorned with a Beatle wig, were pasted anywhere they might be seen. Point-of-sale displays were placed in record stores. A four-page Capitol promo pamphlet sent to the trade focused on the Beatles as a cultural phenomenon, placing inordinate emphasis on their haircuts. If anything sold the Beatles to America, even before their music had been widely heard, it was their hair, an identifying motif that became the talk of the nation. Capitol spent $30,000 publicising a haircut!, but their investment paid off, when on 4 April, Billboard’s Hot 100 showed the Beatles at #1 (with She Loves You), 2, 3, 4, 5, 31, 41, 46, 58, 65, 68 and 79, setting the seal on a full-blown cultural phenomenon.

Beatles Bop – Hamburg Days is a compilation album of the 1961 recording of Tony Sheridan and The Beatles released by Bear Family Records in 2001. To date, this is the most complete collection of the recordings done with producer Bert Kaempfert for Polydor (excluding the other recordings featured on the My Bonnie/The Beatles' First albums that were done by other musicians under the "The Beat Brothers" name)—featuring both mono and stereo mixes of the album. The album was released in a standard two-CD jewel box with a 99-page booklet as well as a Deluxe Edition packaged in an LP-sized box set which included a 120-page hardcover book which featured rare photos, documents, single picture sleeves and historical notes.

The Exotic Beatles - Part One
26 of your all time Beatles favourites performed by the most exotic cast ever assembled including…Eleanor Rigby in Latin by Derek Enright MP - Lucy In The Sky by William Shatner - I Am The Walrus by John Otway - She Loves You Flamenco - Japanese Yellow Submarine Ondo - Brian Sewell - The Metropolitan Police Choir - Cats and Dogs - The Indian Beatles - The Japanese Beatles - The Argentinian Beatles - The Malayan Beatles…
"This is the sound of the world going mad" - Record Collector
"Freshness, innocence, exoticism; the three cardinal virtues of pop" - Beatles Unlimited
"A Must for Beatles obsessives and lovers of kitsch" - Rock CD

In a rare moment of hubris, the Empress Valley label have announced the release of ‘School Gig’, this new 2 CD set contains what remains of the recording from the Beatles concert at Stowe School on the 4th April, 1963. Premiered in part on the BBC on the Front Row programme by top journalist Samira Ahmed who lead the investigation in to the school concert, played as the Beatles were breaking in to superstardom, this investigation pushed two new tapes, unknown to collectors before, in to the light.

Ultimate set including many first appearance sound sources that have never been recorded anywhere. It is longer than the previous episode, including those that are recorded for the first time in an unedited manner. The Beatles, which was already locally famous in local Liverpool before his debut, swept the UK and Europe in 1963 since his debut in 1962. As soon as 1964 opened, he recorded the number one in the US with “I want to hug” In a short period of time it quickly became a global star. Meanwhile, I was busy with a lot of TV and radio appearances as a promotion as well as live performances in parallel. In the first rice in February 1964, only two performances of the live and Ed Sullivan show appeared to fuel the hunger of the fans, full of summer tours in the US. In the meantime, I also have movie shoots, and I wonder where the album had time to produce.

Ultimate set including many first appearance sound sources that have never been recorded anywhere. It is longer than the previous episode, including those that are recorded for the first time in an unedited manner. The Beatles, which was already locally famous in local Liverpool before his debut, swept the UK and Europe in 1963 since his debut in 1962. As soon as 1964 opened, he recorded the number one in the US with “I want to hug” In a short period of time it quickly became a global star. Meanwhile, I was busy with a lot of TV and radio appearances as a promotion as well as live performances in parallel. In the first rice in February 1964, only two performances of the live and Ed Sullivan show appeared to fuel the hunger of the fans, full of summer tours in the US. In the meantime, I also have movie shoots, and I wonder where the album had time to produce.