February 2023 - Page 2 of 2 - The Beatles Bookstore

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Novelty Beatles Records

A Novelty- A Cricket Wants to be a Beatle

Sonny Curtis of the Crickets’ novelty record about the Beatles (above) is one of many novelty Beatles records.

Part of the fun in collecting Beatles items is that there are many areas where collectors can decide to concentrate on. For example, many people love to collect Beatle novelty records or 45s. Here are a few items from my collection of novelty 45s and a brief sentence about why they hold a particular fascination for me.

Paul Is Dead Record

Jose Feliciano’s novelty record (below) about the Paul is Dead hoax. Jose uses the pseudonym

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Jose Feliciano's Record about Paul — Jose Feliciano’s Record about Paul

Cher

A Beatles novelty record produced and partially written by Phil Spector and sung by none other than Cher using the name Bonnie Jo Mason.

Two Virgins Too Far

“John, You Went Too Far This Time” by the group Rainbo featured the actress Sissy Spacek singing about her frustrations with John Lennon doing the nude album cover with Yoko called “Two Virgins,” on this Roulette 45.

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NEMS and the Business of Selling Beatles Merchandise in the U.S. 1964-1966 (2ND EDITION)

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Rod Davis: A Quarryman – On Record Before The Beatles

Rod Davis

Little is known that one of the original Quarrymen, Rod Davis, actually was on an official 45 “release” earlier than the Beatles were. After Rod had left the Quarrymen he played banjo on this 1961 recording. Rod was on this record by The Trad Grads.

He signed the slipcase sleeve for this 45 as shown below for this Decca 45 release.

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Just Like Starting Over: John Lennon and The Quarrymen

When John Lennon and his group The Quarrymen stepped onto the back of a wagon in Rosebery Street on 22^nd June 1957, Charlie Roberts borrowed a camera and took a few photos of the event. It was just a group of friends having fun at a street party.

What Charlie didn’t know at the time was that he was capturing a piece of Beatles history. This was the first time that John Lennon had been photographed performing with his group. Skiffle was the new music and soon, John would meet Paul McCartney who would then introduce George Harrison to John.

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Bent Coppers – The Story of Norman Pilcher

Signed edition of the late Norman Pilcher’s book “Bent Coppers.” Published by Clink Street Publishers in 2020.

Bent Coppers

“Semolina Pilchard“. There is conjecture in Beatles circles that John Lennon used this term in his song “I Am The Walrus” to refer to police officer Norman Pilcher. There was a mass trade edition of this book written by the notorious policeman who was responsible for arresting several of the most important rock figures of the 1960s on drug-related charges.

This book is Norman Pilcher’s version of the stories that captured the imagination of many who were part of the counterculture movement of that era. The version of the book shown below represents the signed edition of which only 250 copies were issued before Norman Pilcher passed away from cancer in March of 2021.

An interesting revelation according to Norman’s good friend, Reg, was that Mr. Pilcher after John had been charged at the police station, Norman sat down with John, and it was then that John and Norman had a long chat. It was there that Norman was swayed by John and what he believed in. John actually did send Norman postcards following his arrest from various locations, 6 in all from Japan France etc.

I am sure when the two of them were in the police station neither of them could have envisioned at that time what the long-term consequences of that arrest would be!!!

So what were those consequences? Let me know in the comments below!

If you wish to purchase a limited editioned signed copy of Norman’s book, they are only available through the author’s friend Reg, at contact.bentcoppers@gmail.com and not the publishers.

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