keith
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Post by keith on Nov 28, 2019 16:16:04 GMT -5
I often wonder why I don't have more Beatles stuff from the 60s. Then I have to remember that during their pop years, i.e. before Revolver, I didn't really have much in the way of disposable income (born in 1952). And after Revolver, I probably decided that, although The Beatles were (and still are) my favourite band, it wasn't cool to buy stuff like a teenybopper. Yes folks, I was officially an idiot! Anyway, some of what I bought has survived the centuries and I thought I'd bore you lot with a few photos. First off, an original Beatles Monthly from April 1964; I had just celebrated my 12th birthday in March. This is the only original to survive, obviously I bouhgt quite a few of the reissues in the 70s and picked up a few more at a market in Spain earlier this year.
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Post by John S. Damm on Dec 1, 2019 11:46:13 GMT -5
LOL, that is funny Keith, not wanting to look like a teenybopper post 1966! The Beatles Monthly Books are cool! Those would have been cool to collect and keep. I wouldn't want then or now the trinkets and toys. Just music, books and maybe posters.
Do you still have the original albums and singles you bought back then?
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Post by keith on Dec 3, 2019 10:28:48 GMT -5
Oh yes! Albeit with a couple of exceptions Love Me Do and Please Please Me were the first records I bought with my own money. That said, I'm fairly sure that I was given a ten shilling (50p) record token for my birthday in March, to which I added a half a crown (2/6 = 12.5p) and bought the 2 singles. Which means I missed out on the red Parlophone label LMD with Ringo on drums. Still not sure where I got the cash from as I was only 11. Maybe I had saved up some pocket money. Anyway, lack of funds, and not wanting to buy those 4 tracks again, meant I never bought the PPM album. But I did buy the Twist And Shout and The Beatles (No 1) EPs. so had 12 of the 14 tracks from the LP. Methinks lack of funds meant I didn't get all the albums on release. I did buy With The Beatles but not AHDN or Beatles For Sale (1964 must have been a bad year!). Bought the rest up to and including the boxed Let It Be. The exceptions referred to above are Sgt Pepper's and The Beatles. Both were purchased on release in mono but when I could finally afford a stereo system, I bought the stereo versions and GAVE THE MONO VERSIONS AWAY!!! I bought most of the singles, but not Paperback Writer, no idea why I missed that one. I also bought (or was it a present?) Why/Cry For A Shadow. And, of course the MMT double EP. Still have them all, even the picture sleeve for SFF which was screwed up by a mad 15 year old girl back in 1967/68 ...
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