APCOR NEWSLETTER 28 JANUARY 2024
Hello all –
A Is For Apple Volume 4 ended with the Beatles' break-up and our customers wondered when Volume 5 will be issued. We would like to inform you that the series has been put on hold for now. This is not to say there will not be a follow-up, but nothing's planned for the immediate future. We, the writers, think that Volume 4 was a good cut-off point to end this series and even though we may tell more of the Apple story in future, it might not be in the form of another volume in this series.
And with that, we are now proud to announce our latest title!
EXTENDED PLAY IN THE U.K. – A new Apcor book!
In 2022, Apcor published Made In The U.K. - A complete overview of The Beatles' singles manufactured in the U.K. by Richard Noller in a limited edition of 500 copies. It was an immediate success, necessating a second printing within weeks. It met with great reviews, not just from enthusiastic buyers, but also by trade magazines such as the leading U.K. magazine for record collectors (aptly named Record Collector), who gave it a raving 5-star (out of 5) review and placed it at the same level as books such as Revolution In The Head (Ian Macdonald) and The Complete Recording Sessions (Mark Lewisohn) and named it “an essential addition to the collection”.
Now comes Richard Noller's new book, Extended Play In The U.K. - A complete overview of The Beatles' EPs manufactured in the U.K., the logical follow-up and accompaniment to the singles book. Set for publication in early Spring 2024, again, this is a tome (hardback, 500 pages in full colour, nearly 4,300 illustrations!!) with the most detailed information about The Beatles' EP releases in the U.K. ever gathered in book form, peppered with countless pictures and scans of labels, sleeves, rare documents, timely news reports, acetates, sheet music, test pressings, etc. Even if The Beatles only released 13 Parlophone EP titles during their existence as a band, which this book of course covers in great detail from the very first pressings up to the final releases from the CD era, there are in-depth discussions about the EPs released on other labels, planned but unreleased EPs, BBC Transcription discs, virtual EPs made available on streaming services, an exhaustive coverage of the Irish EPs (including every known label variation), an illustrated chapter on foreign EPs modeled after the U.K. titles, a gallery of EPs with “songs they gave away”, a complete overview of U.K. EP sleeves used in other countries, a chapter on Bootleg EPs and much, much more. As a bonus there is a chapter on new 45 (singles) findings, uncovered since the publication of the Made In The U.K. book two years ago*.
This book will, like the Made In The U.K. book did for The Beatles' U.K. singles releases, stand as the final word on the Fab Four's U.K. EP releases.
With the recent revived interest in The Beatles through their 'last single' Now and Then (all formats also extensively covered in the additional singles chapter), this is the perfect time to invest in this new book. Recently, Apcor's limited edition books have realized some astronomical prices on sales platforms (a copy of Mach Schau! realized over $2,000 on eBay in April 2023!) so, not only will this book serve as a standard work for the future, an investment in an Apcor Book seems like a very good idea anyway!
Pre-order now! This is a limited edition, so act fast to avoid disappointment.
www.apcor.net
Should you wish to combine pre-ordering this book with some of the other items in our shop, please note that all items will be shipped at once when the book is released (approximately April 2024).
*) This chapter has also been made available in PDF form for free download through www.apcor.net for the benefit of the people who bought Made In The U.K. – here is the link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
NEW APCOR BOOK: EXTENDED PLAY IN THE U.K.
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Re: NEW APCOR BOOK: EXTENDED PLAY IN THE U.K.
the57thbeatle wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 6:18 pm APCOR NEWSLETTER 28 JANUARY 2024
Hello all –
A Is For Apple Volume 4 ended with the Beatles' break-up and our customers wondered when Volume 5 will be issued. We would like to inform you that the series has been put on hold for now. This is not to say there will not be a follow-up, but nothing's planned for the immediate future. We, the writers, think that Volume 4 was a good cut-off point to end this series and even though we may tell more of the Apple story in future, it might not be in the form of another volume in this series.
That is a shame. Seems there will be a big gap in the Apple story.
Would welcome a reprint of Porkys Prime cuts and maybe a cd collecting all those vinyl only Apcor releases. If it's not too much to ask?
Re: NEW APCOR BOOK: EXTENDED PLAY IN THE U.K.
Look at it this way - the gap was always there, and thanks to the four volumes already published, it's substantially filled. They are great books.
The EP one promises to be great too.
Re: NEW APCOR BOOK: EXTENDED PLAY IN THE U.K.
wizz wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 7:16 pmApcor Books have already issued a cd compiling those vinyl only cuts, A is For Acetates.the57thbeatle wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 6:18 pm APCOR NEWSLETTER 28
That is a shame. Seems there will be a big gap in the Apple story.
Would welcome a reprint of Porkys Prime cuts and maybe a cd collecting all those vinyl only Apcor releases. If it's not too much to ask?
Like most of the books, long out of print and getting harder to track down for anything other than the shirt off your back.
Re: NEW APCOR BOOK: EXTENDED PLAY IN THE U.K.
A is for Acetates does not contain:
Grenville & Weston - Aeroplane
The Poets - Bad Weather
White Trash - Bad weather
Jimmer Glynn and Alan Rackin The Complete Apple Demos
Jack Hollingshead The King of Carnaby The Complete Apple Demos
as for the "long out of print and getting harder to track down" books, a reprint would solve that problem. I am sure the demand would be there.