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Tracklisting & More Information
The following has been taken from an online source.
Limited edition of 500 signed copies in slipcase; printed in LP size (30 cm x 30 cm) with photographs. The author, a teacher in Berlin and self-admitted 'obsessive' ("You have to be mad to do something like this ... not only to even conceive of the idea, but then following through"), Noske has collected, arranged and printed 14,000 photographs of the artwork on every Beatle record released in the world: singles, EPs, LPs, flexi-discs and 7S-rpm shellac pressings. And by 'the world', you can take that to include Beatle records released in Angola, Pakistan, Mozambique, Iran and the West Indies, as well as 66 other countries from every continent save Antarctica. In addition to the entire EMI output, Noske includes the Tony Sheridan Hamburg recording from April 1961, the Christmas flexi-discs, the Decca audition, interview and documentary discs, coloured vinyl and picture discs and boxed sets. Several appendices make this massive work easier to peruse.
Significantly, Noske chose to exclude bootleg items; only those records which were legitimate releases are here, although to what extent the records were always legal for purchase, as in the Soviet Union and the Soviet Bloc countries is another matter.
Unable to find a publisher willing (or able) to finance the cost of printing the colossal volume (800 pages, 14,000 photographs, many in colour), Noske financed the project himself and the final product is impressive and, frankly, gorgeous. The book is in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland
It was published in a limited edition of 500 numbered and signed copies, issued in a slipcase and weighing 5.S kilograms (more than 12 pounds).
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