INTRODUCTION TO THE BEATLES SCRAPBOOK
My curiosity was recently awoken to the more than 100 print-related Beatles scrapbooks that I kept over the years. As I came across the boxes in storage that contained them, I was intrigued by the print time capsules. Long ago, I had abandoned keeping and maintaining the scrapbooks when the digital internet revolution exploded! When I was compiling the scrapbooks I would preserve the newspaper articles about the Beatles by placing them in scrapbooks to help prevent their deterioration and yellowing of the poor print quality of newspapers in general. I also kept many of my picture sleeves in the scrapbooks encased in their own plastic sleeves, as well as ticket stubs and other Beatles-related print items.
I am planning to share with you the contents of many of the Beatles scrapbooks that I have compiled over the years.
Many friends and people that I knew very well also knew of my fascination with the band and they would save articles for me or send them to me through the mail so I could include them in the scrapbooks. I was able to compile more than 100 of them. The best scrapbooks that I chose to use were the ones that had no photo inserts aspects to the scrapbook, The articles were placed on pages of approximately 8X11 size with a single piece of plastic covering for each page, protecting the articles in question. I would cut the articles out of the newspapers in order that they would fit into the scrapbook even if it required multiple pages to preserve the full article.
Most of the articles saved were from the post-Beatles 1970s era onward as prior to that I could not afford the costs to purchase and maintain the scrapbooks. There was a local pharmacy employee who used to stack the newspapers on a daily basis and would inform me when a Beatles article would appear in the newspaper.
The scrapbooks served as excellent time capsules for those times.
My blog administrator, David Bedford, has encouraged me to share the scrapbooks with you, the members and visitors to the blog, and he told me it was Ok to do so as they are all items personally acquired for my personal Beatles print-related collection.
INSIDE THE BEATLES SCRAPBOOK
The various scrapbooks presented will not be in chronological order. You may see one from 1987 in one post and the next one may contain articles from 1992. They will be chosen randomly for display on the blog. Some will have subject matter that is consistent throughout the particular scrapbook. Others may not follow that trend! In that way those scrapbooks will mirror the Hodgepodge posts that have also been presented on this blog.
We will continue to present both old and new Beatles-related books, old and new Beatles magazines, and other print-related material on the blog! Since my original intention was to keep these articles for my own viewing, I put the articles in after cutting them from the newspaper. Some of them have attribution. Others do not. If anyone recognizes one of their articles that they have not received attribution for and would like to receive it, please let us know and I will amend the post if you provide the necessary updated info. If not, I will remove the article that you specify to avoid any problems.
Thank you and I hope you enjoy this new category on the blog!!!
BUZZ
In 1987, Yoko goes to Russia to advocate nuclear disarmament with a few other celebrities:
More about the Russian and the talks about disarmament:
Numerous articles of this time frame were devoted to the introduction of Beatles cds in the marketplace which came later than most other huge musical artists!
More cd info and a also a mention about analyzing the chins of celebrities
An article from the Hartford Courant about a release of the Help film!
More about celbrity chins! LOL. Hard to believe they treated this stuff as NEWS!
A Julian Lennon article from his early touring days!
Building anticipation from the Beatles cds
Beatles For Sale on CD
CD-planned obsolesence. Release the medium then years later introduce streaming and contribute to making hard copies of music take a lower rung on the ladder and eventually disappear if the music entrepeneurs have their way.
If you do not have to produce a physical product, there is much less overhead, cheaper for the music organizations to issue which translates into more $$$$. No matter how hard you try, you will not change my outlook on this subject!
A bit of discussion about Beatles video:
LOST BEATLES MOVIE SCRIPT
A discussion about a movie script the Beatles turned down that Todd Rundgren wrote a score for: Joe Orton’s script for Up Against It
A few interesting articles:
RIngo’s album was never issued from this new George and Ringo forthcoming LP discussion:
Beatles CD advertisement:
CD news, Ringo Chips Moman news and Yoko at Andy Warhol’s funeral:
The Yoko article was certainly a surprise to me when I saw it in the newspaper:
A great article authored by Allan Kozin in the New York Times about Beatles cds from 1987:
The picture sleeve to the Time Will Teach Us All picture sleeve. The song featured a duet with Julian Lennon and Stevie Wonder. The song was from the London stage musical of Time put together by Dave Clark!!! I went to see the stage presentation in London and had a great time!
One of the rarest and most costly Beatles picture sleeves to acquire: Notice that the record executives had not yet arrived at the point when they would later photoshop out the cigarette from Paul’s hand.
The back view of the picture sleeve:
John’s Toronto show:
An article from Rolling Stone discussing Let It Be:
A Ringo Wine Cooler ad which he may have regretted when he and Barbara were treated for their problem:
An essay that promotes a lot of thought:
More cd discussion and news about the Beatles suing Nike:
And the Beatles cd rampage continues:
A George Martin interview discussing the first 4 in mono controversy!
An article about Tim Leary former Harvard professor and one of his later attempts at “mind movies.”
Twiggy and Peter Max both had Beatles connection and a brief note about Paul recording with the late Phil Ramone:
Hope you enjoyed this first scrapbook blog! Tell your friends about it!
Be healthy and be happy!
Buzz
