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I suppose the very tarty hipsters at the UK new Musical Express must show a certain trendy disdain for olde geezer rockers like the Beatles, but some of the rubbish reviews in their new "Collectors' Issue" on the remasters, are, well, rubbish.
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But what saves the whole lot is great and rare pix of the lads through the years, and a fresh interview with Paul McCartney on what he thinks of the digital do-overs.
But what saves the whole lot is great and rare pix of the lads through the years, and a fresh interview with Paul McCartney on what he thinks of the digital do-overs.
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Pick up a copy of this mag, if you can find it, in 13 cover variations, if you dare.
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Rolling Stone's latest issue is banging the Beatle drum, as well.-
Click on the scan at left for news on the Fabs' success at the CD cashbox, and how the
whole seemingly terminally sick music industry may get a temporary stay with these
new discs.
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Unfortunately, the piece repeats the myth that the Mono Box set is a "limited edition."
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Unfortunately, the piece repeats the myth that the Mono Box set is a "limited edition."
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As previously noted in this space, even Apple Corps own website does not so assign the box, but rather describe it as being at present unavailable due to overwhelming demand.
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Finally, many Beatle fans are old enough to have been around for The Prisoner, the English TV series that ran in North America from late 1968 on, and on and on in perpetual syndication.
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Finally, many Beatle fans are old enough to have been around for The Prisoner, the English TV series that ran in North America from late 1968 on, and on and on in perpetual syndication.
-A bizarre tale of (seemingly) a secret agent who quits, and then is abducted
to a weird "Village," where he is tormented by a succession of sado-masochists, who try to get the agent (Number 6) to spill the intel beans.
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Whatever they, the beans would be is not entirely clear, yet all in good fun. And in the (anti)climactic final episode, not only is the Beatles All You Need Is Love used in satire, but the jukeboxes playing it display American album covers like Second Album and Help! Strange, that.
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Whatever they, the beans would be is not entirely clear, yet all in good fun. And in the (anti)climactic final episode, not only is the Beatles All You Need Is Love used in satire, but the jukeboxes playing it display American album covers like Second Album and Help! Strange, that.
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For much more on The Prisoner 40th Anny DVD box set, be seeing you at:
For much more on The Prisoner 40th Anny DVD box set, be seeing you at:
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