After the success of the (still ongoing) Jazz on 33 vinyl re-issues, those doyens of the part-work, newsagent-friendly collectibles, DeAgostini, have turned their gaze upon the HJH back-catalogue. So you can pick up some Fabs on wax along with your Star Wars Helmets and rebuild the Mary Rose collections.
http://www.deagostini.com/uk/collections/beatles-vinyl-collection/
I notice that they’re not showing the physical record label in any of the photos.
Due to rights issues over the Parlophone name caused by the carve up of EMI between Universal and Warners, I suspect they’re not entitled to use the Parlophone name logo on these re-issues.
The Parlophone logo is front and centre on the covers of Help and For Sale though.
If they were available in newsagents or individually online without subscription I’d be tempted by Past Masters or perhaps the Anthology ones. But unlike the Jazz series they aren’t.
It does say ‘never miss an issue’ on that subs page, though – doesn’t that suggest it WILL be available instore?
It does, doesn’t it? Will have to keep a look out.
I’ve just seen the first one, Abbey Road, in WHSmith…in my experience, they usually have a fair number of ‘issues’ of these partworks on sale instore until interest gradually dwindles away. The second one, Sgt. Pepper, is gonna cost £16.99.
Ooooh, will there be some little models of the Fab Lads themselves made of polystyrene that arrive in increments with each issue?
January 2017 – Help! with a little placcy bag stapled to the cover containing tiny parts making up Paul’s torso and George’s legs; Paul’s head to follow with John’s arms and Ringo’s feet. Various other body parts with each successive album until round about Let It Be we finally get George’s head and a cardboard display stand showing them all jammed into the doorway of the Star Club.
In the dimension in which I reside I believe all these LPs are already available individually and in nice big boxes in both mono and stereo. They are also much cheaper than these DeAgostini versions.
I am able to provide links that will deliver the cheaper versions through a wormhole to the dimension in which you reside.
For those with more money than sense? (I’m brassic on both those counts.)
Is it all of them, or just the 7 shown?
I’m guessing it’s all of them, as the Free Gift “hook” says With your 10th Delivery.
I admit to being a bit more than slightly tempted
It’s all of them I think, including Anthologies, 1, Past Masters, Red, Blue, BBC stuff and Love. 23 issues in all.
Emotionally, I want this collection – who wouldn’t want pristine condition versions of the HJHs output?
But … economically, I’m not sure I can justify it, especially at £18 a fortnight. Mrs D would have a connery.
I’ll try emotional blackmail, but I may be joining the throng of picking up the odd edition – Past Masters, 62-66 and 67-70 perhaps (that’ll be 3 copies each of the Red & Blue comps (not including CD))
A connery? Isn’t that one of those strip-joints in Soho where you get charged £400 for a Bacardi and coke?
… and if Mrs. Digit had her hair cut very short while contemplating RD’s expenditure on HJH’s reissues, it’d be a shorn connery.
“Thish ish daylight robbery”…
“And I have to wait 18 monsh for Pleashe Pleashe Me”
No Small option for the T-shirts, one notices….
I am shocked, SHOCKED that no-one has asked whether the releases will be stereo or mono…
Also, are they going to do Past Masters as one triple album, as they did with the mono release, or as Volume 1 and Volume 2?
This is only a guess, but the FAQs section about pricing states:
“Each Single album issue will cost £16.99 and every double/triple album issue will have a price of £24.99”
White, Red and Blue albums are doubles, no triple albums in the catalogue (as we know it) so why quote price for triple album if there isn’t one?
3 LP Past Masters on the way (possibly?)
Live at the BBC Vol. 2 a is triple. And weren’t the Anthologies too?
It would be a double if they cut out all the stupid Brian Mathews chatter…
LEAVE BRIAN ALONE!
🙂
(Is it, Mathew or Mathews? Radio 2 site says Matthew!)
I just cannot with his fake h-dropping ‘must lose the accent when talking to these oiks’ ‘ello lads’ nonsense…
… particularly irksome when it forces him to refer to the HJHs as merely the Js…
Those lairy Scousers are a pain, too, aren’t dey dough?
PS. This White Album will cost less than I paid for it on CD…. in, er 1992. Not bad, it has to be said.
They were.
I want the whole lot on 45 rpm 12″ singles. One track per side.
Someone on the SH forum posted the schedule. I don’t know what their source is, but here’s the list of all 23 in order:
Sgt Pepper
Abbey Road
Help!
The Beatles
Rubber Soul
MMT
Yellow Submarine
Beatles for Sale
Love
A Hard Day’s Night
Red
With the Beatles
Anthology 1
Revolver
Anthology 2
BBC Vol 1
Please Please Me
BBC Vol 2
Let it Be
1
Anthology 3
Blue
Past Masters
Not in chronological order?!?
Nurse! The screens!!
PS. They did albums of Communards and Joni Mitchell cover versions? Who knew!
And Love’s debut!
Well, it’s either that or Aztec Camera. How Menlove Avenue Are?
Red… I assumed Communards ….. but it could be Black Uhuru or The King Crimsons.
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Mr Mustard!
A part of me says “I wish they were in chronological order”, but the a random order makes life more interesting (or just frustrating as you have to wait 14 issues to hear Tomorrow Never Knows, and 23 issues to hear Rain)
They get back together for the first album they released. Errr. . .
I don’t get why anyone would buy this.
I bought the complete recordings stereo box set when it was released a few years ago and it is a lovely thing.
I played it all a couple of times and now it sits in the loft!
PS you can get most of the stereo vinlies from Music Magpie at 15.69 each… no postage. Jes’ sayin’….
Moose don’t need no stinkin’ badges! Or that usb thingummy neither..
Seriously, am I alone in thinking that all the merch looks a bit Sunday Market?
And too big sizes. I’ve got to think of my public.
Just got Anthology 1 on CD (like new!) in the local charity shop for £1.50.
Shouldn’t we now be referring, post-vinly, to DCs?
Mr B has been known to refer to them as DVDs. Oh, and when I came out of the chazza with today’s fine, bargainous purchase, the first thing he says is “Haven’t you got enough Beatles already?”. The civinly.
Have you heard Anthology 1? Be careful bandying the word “bargain” about…
Of course I have! Granted it’s not the most musically satisfying, but I think it’s the most interesting.
….not least because it proves that those fellers at Decca who turned them down might have had a point.
It’s worth it for Leave My Kitten Alone, er, alone.
The greatest unreleased Beatles track.
That, and the 1962 version of “One After 909”
Not ‘Arf!
“Haven’t you got enough Beatles already?”
What?!?!? WHAT?!?!?
I KNOW!!!! What does that even MEAN?
To paraphrase something Danny Baker said once, it’s like someone saying “haven’t you had enough oxygen?”
CDs; compacts? diskies? They’ll be selling players for them in supermarkets one day. . .
You mean spinners? Yeah, I’ve got one of those. It’s totes old skool, there’s even a tray to put your drink in.
I just hope that whoever is pressing these does a better job that their jazz series.
I only acquired the first one of that series. I didn’t get around to playing it for several weeks due to a lack of a working system, only to discover a major blemish on one side of the LP. On closer inspection it appeared to be a finger impression, as if someone had picked up the LP when still hot-off-the-press. You never used to get QA as piss-poor as that back in the days….
I bought the first three or four. The first was in a terrible old mess but was exchanged (in a newsagents) with no fuss, and the rest were flawless. I read that the series as a whole has been most impressive, except for the mail-order customer service with regards to communication.
When old threads resurface…..
Just spotted issue #1 of this new series in WHSmiths – Abbey Road, stuck to a backing card, with “book & poster” for £9.99. Under no circumstances do I need yet another copy of any LP by the HJH, but y’know…..
I saw a stack of these in the window of a local newsagents today. Luckily on the shady side of the street.
I have been giving this one a big old mull, as I’ve never been able to splash out on one of the HJH vinyl boxes, and I only own SPLHCB and AR on proper vinyl. Teasing the spend over 12 months would be unnoticeable!
I’ve done some back-of-the-envelope calculations:
– Currently, the stereo vinyl box is about £320 on Amazon.
– This boxset does not include Anthologies 1-3 (all triple vinyl), BBC Vols 1&2 (also both triple vinyl), Red & Blue compilations (double vinyl), Love and 1. The magazine series *does* include these.
– A full series of the Beatles magazine comes to £460
– For that you also get a magazine with each album. I don’t know how substantive the magazine is, because I haven’t seen one yet, but they’re written by Mark Paytress, which is nice.
– You also get the free gubbins, but I agree that that stuff seems tatty.
– And there’s something appealing about Fabs albums arriving at your door in a random fashion for a year.
– No one has included Hollywood Bowl or Let It Be…In The Nip, With a Dog.
– Either way, you’re still left wanting a Mono vinyl box.
– And also one of these:
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=112112725060&globalID=EBAY-IE
“Teasing the spend over 12 months would be unnoticeable” – dude, it would be a medical miracle.
hurrrr
@DrJ You can see inside the mags by clicking on the pic on the website: basically three double page spreads.
Also, in your calculations did you include the extra £2 per issue required in order to get the two storage boxes?
If you want/need the whole caboodle it’s not a bad deal at all, and I agree about the fun of records turning up in the post. Personally I’d rather spend my dosh on music I don’t already have, hence joining the new Rough Trade album club.
I did not include the calculation for the storage boxes, that’d be an extra £46. Where we’re going, we don’t need boxes!