Category Archives: music

mick and keith

The Rolling Stones on the Paris-Marseille train. June 1965.

san francisco

San Francisco. Anthony Stern. 1968.

more french apples

German All Together Now

I spend my days looking at Apple Records releases from around the world so you don’t have to! Most of these are French unless otherwise noted. But we’ll begin above in Germany where “All Together Now” was released as a single (news to me). Below, we have a few Lennons. None of them are all that though I recently found out that the picture that adorns this “Be-Bop-A-Lula” single (and the Rock and Roll LP) was found by May Pang at the first Beatlesfest. As usual, all of these images are from ebay.

French Be-Bop-A-LuLa

French Whatever Gets

Here are two French Wings singles. “Junior’s Farm” and the elusive (or, more accurately, always overpriced) “Hi Hi Hi” picture sleeve featuring the band in some seriously great outfits.

Junior's Farm France

hi hi hi France

“Hi Hi Hi” in Portugal:

hi hi hi portugal

My most recent obsession has been with these awesome looking “Eat at Home” singles. I’ll have to pick up a few eventually. The cover art on some of them feature the same picture as the “Another Day” single which I went on about a while back.

Spain (not on Apple!):

Eat at Home Spain

Italy has the best one:

Eat at Home Italy

Germany:

Eat at Home Germany

I don’t remember where this one is from but the orange Apple works (probably Stateside):

Eat At Home

Speaking of Ram, I think one of the Beatles photo blogs posted this a few weeks ago but I can’t quite remember which one. I have no idea if it is a legitimate ad or not. If it is, it’s great. If it’s some fan designed thing it is horribly lame.

ram ad

All hail the brilliant French “Something” single! Pretty mind-blowing stuff here.

French Something

Plastic Ono Band’s “Mother.” Sharp picture:

French Mother

A French “Hey Jude” similar to the French sleeves I posted last time I did something like this:

French Hey Jude

Did Ringo lose a bet (in France)?

French It Don't Come Easy

This Billy Preston cover is pretty exciting:

Billy Preston France

Yoko repeats herself:

French Yoko

A pretty great “Mind Games”:

French Mind Games

record labels

I’ve done this before but it’s just now occurred to me that this is a feature on its own. Here’s a recent pick up, a Dylan mystery: a stereo copy of Blonde on Blonde. It’s an early pressing but the absence of Claudia Cardinale and the whispering scene in the gate (see below) seem to rule out it being a first pressing—either way, the two records themselves are in pristine condition, virtually unplayed. The serial and matrix numbers, along with the “Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The” listing (the track listing in the gate continues the song’s title reading: “Memphis Blues Again”) and the presence of the “STEREO ‘360° SOUND'” logo all seem to indicate that it’s a first pressing. Despite this site‘s seemingly exhaustive study of the endless differences in the various versions of the LP’s release, I remain confused as to what exactly it is that I have here.

Blonde gate 1--Cardinale and the whisperer

Blonde gate 2

Apparently, Cardinale wasn’t involved in the photo shoot for the album but was in the photographer‘s portfolio and Dylan thought it would be cool to include it—and who can blame him?

god’s comic

While preparing a post on the McCartney/Costello collaboration of the late eighties (which may or may not materialize), I came across this pretty slick video of Costello performing “God’s Comic” solo/acoustic style. According to the guy who posted this on youtube this comes from something called Everything You Wanted To Know About Spike. Seeing this sort of makes up for the lack of alternate versions on this song on the Rhino reissue.

performance

Performance. Cammell. Roeg. 1970.

postcards from main street

Record shopping today I bought another copy of the Stones’ Exile on Main Street LP. This copy included some (but sadly not all) of the postcards that came with the first run of record and here they are:

A 1990s CD booklet included reproductions of these cards. My reaction to them then is pretty much the same as my reaction now, “what the fuck is this all about?” Must’ve had to have been there.

vintage jam (these guys are still around edition)

Mower. Superchunk. 1993.

years after the event (john and yoko thirteenth month 1970)

thirteenth month

Together.

thirteen

thirteenth detail

Home demo of “Good Morning Good Morning”

years after the event (john and yoko december 1970)

December Image

Now you know how many holes it takes. Albert Hall Archemical Wedding bag performance by John and Yoko.

December

December detail

I’ve got nothing as far as non-Anthology “A Day in the Life” outtakes. Here, somewhat randomly, are two great takes of “Remember” instead.