Artists and Bands

Kontrowersyjna okładka With The Beatles

Australijska okładka albumu With The Beatles nie była jedynie późniejszym przedmiotem zainteresowania kolekcjonerów. Jak po…

1964

Love Me Do (Tollie T 9008) - Export Edition for Italy

While in Sicily at the end of May 2026, I went in search of interesting…

The Beatles in Iran

Mehrdad Mehdizadeh was twelve years old the first time he saw their name in a…

Vinyl records down under part 1 - Labels

If a Beatles collector ever discovers Australia, it tends to be late in the game.…

M6 codes on Pathé Marconi pressings

Vinyl collecting sometimes calls for a touch of Sherlock Holmes. In the previous piece I…

SIAE - Dating Italian Pressings

Anyone who has ever flipped over an Italian Odeon, Columbia or Parlophon LP from the…

1967

Magical Mystery Tour (Parlophone MMT-1 / Capitol SMAL-2835 / Parlophone PCTC 255)

Magical Mystery Tour is a unique case in the Beatles’ catalogue. The only title that…

1969

Yellow Submarine (Apple PMC 7070 / PCS 7070)

There are records in the Beatles catalogue where even buying them is a dilemma. I…

1980

The Beatles 1967-1970 (AMIGA 855742)

Amiga 8 55 742 (stereo, 1980) is an East German single-LP distillation of The Beatles…

1965

The Beatles

The Beatles on Amiga 8 50 040 — released in January 1965 — is one…

Mono versus stereo: the biggest dispute in Beatles vinyl history

When a collector first holds a mono copy of Revolver and plays „Tomorrow Never Knows,”…

Rare gems from behind the Iron Curtain

Some records you don’t find — they find you. They turn up in a vodka…

Inside Balkanton, the State Label That Let the West In — Barely

There’s a grey concrete building at 6 Haidushka Polyana Street in Sofia that, for roughly…

1969

Supraphon 0 13 0599 / 1 13 0599 - A Guide for Hardcore Collectors

This post supplements the main feature on the history of Supraphon and the Artia–EMI contract…

How Supraphon Smuggled the Beatles into the Eastern Bloc

It is December 1968. Tanks from five Warsaw Pact armies have been stationed in Prague…

1967

Is "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" the best album in the history of popular music?

There are certain albums in the history of music that always prompt a sigh at…

The Soviet vinyl record industry

One monopoly, many factories For millions of Soviet citizens, the word Melodiya wasn’t just a…

1962

Love Me Do — One Song That Started It All

Three sessions, three drummers, one lost master tape, and sixty-two years of pressing variants: this…