The Vinyl Thread | Page 14 | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

My local second-hand store (actually called Penny Lane Vintage) had a copy of the Ringo album the last time I was there. I went back on Saturday to try to buy it, but it was gone. However, I bought this instead for £2. I’ve no idea what these things are worth, if anything, but I don’t see them very often.

Shame she didn’t have any Beatles demonstration discs, because I’ve never seen any in real life (unfortunately they always remind me of celebrity paedophile Jimmy Savile because of this picture).

Thanks for that. I hadn’t looked up past sales, but I doubt the normal single itself is worth much. There are a few on Discogs for less than I paid (though with postage). I have the UK version but the label is different from the standard Columbia one (which looks much like the Parlophone labels of that era).

I don’t tend to buy records with a view to selling them – I’d rather pick up interesting releases for my collection, which is why I got this. But I would like to know how many copies were made, because they must have had quite a limited run.

I’ll give it a spin tonight. It looks like the disc has barely been played, if at all. The cover is obviously shabby though.

The shop had a few other demonstration discs, though nothing Beatley. I might pop back and see what I missed.

An eight-album John Lennon vinyl box set is listed on Amazon.co.uk, due for release on 8 June.

The pre-order is priced at £154, which is steep (roughly £20 per album), but this might come down before release. Universal’s box sets tend to be on the pricey side (eg the Roxy Music one).

The albums are the same as in the 2010 Signature Box. There’s no Two Virgins , Life With The Lions , Wedding Album , Live Peace In Toronto 1969 or most of the posthumous albums (Milk And Honey is the exception). Nor is there Shaved Fish, which Universal reissued on vinyl not so long ago, and which means this box set misses out the non-album singles.

I’ll pass, because I have all these on vinyl and CD already. Also, like the Beatles stereo box, they’re mastered from digital files. Some vinyl purists believe this to be worse than genocide. 

Universal Music are proud to present Lennon, a stunning new 8LP boxed collection featuring John Lennon ’s eight solo studio albums on heavyweight, 180-gram audiophile vinyl with faithfully replicated original album art.

John Lennon ’s eight solo studio albums were remastered from their original analogue masters in 2010, by Yoko Ono and a team of engineers led by Allan Rouse at Abbey Road Studios in London and by George Marino at Avatar Studios in New York. These LP’s have been newly cut to vinyl from those 96k digital files for Lennon, cut by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios and manufactured for the world by Optimal Media in Germany.

Each of the Lennon collection’s LPs is an authentic reproduction of its U.K. original, in its sound and visual presentation. In keeping with the original album artwork, Imagine contains reproductions of its two postcards, poster and inner bag, Some Time In New York City includes reproductions of its original postcard and inner sleeve, Walls And Bridges includes its sleeve with two fold-over flaps, an eight-page booklet and inner sleeve, and Mind Games , Double Fantasy and Milk And Honey also include reproductions of their original inner sleeves.

The eight studio albums are; John Lennon /Plastic Ono Band (1970), Imagine (1971), Some Time In New York City (1972), Mind Games (1973), Walls And Bridges (1974), Rock ‘n’ Roll (1975), Double Fantasy (1980) and Milk And Honey (1984).