Welcome everyone to the Apple Records Inside No3 Newsfeed and Blog.
This will offer information, photographs, and documents from Apple Records No.3 Savile Row, London W.1 from 1968 – 1976.
Let’s start at the top for Number 1
Apple Records was announced to the world officially on August Bank holiday in 1968 in several ways. We had the package of Our First Four, which was issued in 3 forms.
The first was a limited set of 100 plastic laminated sets for heads of State around the world.
The second offering was a cardboard set numbering just over 400 units distributed to radio presenters and other notables in the media for promotion.
The third set was the United States sets from Los Angeles and New York Apple offices. These were US indigenous designs. These were mainly in Green and White in an entirely different setting using the same wording, with text supplied by Derek Taylor.
All of these items went very quickly, with many being quite simply destroyed. Each set contained the first four Apple records to be released, “Hey Jude”, “Those were the Days”, “Sour Milk Sea” and finally “Thingumybob”.
With the passing of the years, these have become highly prised articles of desire for all Beatles fans, and no doubt that will continue for the future.
All of these were displayed in my publication Inside No 3 . All of the items are from my own collection so I thought that I would show them here.
A selection of the Apple Records Our First Four sets. The US released sets are the ones in green.
Copies of the book Inside No3 can be purchased from www.insideandoutsideno3.com .
Nigel Pearce
I love the post Nigel, and I am so happy to see you here. Best wishes for a great 2nd book in the series!
Thank you very much John, you have been very helpful and an inspiration. Thank you too David for setting out so well, I believe, I will enjoy my time here and working with you all.