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WORLD-WIDE BEATLES ILLUSTRATED DISCOGRAPHY

PART 1: EUROPEAN SINGLES

DUTCH AND BELGIAN AUTHOR WROTE THE FIRST WORLD-WIDE BEATLES DISCOGRAPHY

Alkmaar / Antwerpen, the 26th of  November 2003 - The Dutchman Azing Moltmaker and the Belgian Samuel Coomans have released the first book of a series of five, containing the complete world-wide discography of the Beatles.

 

The premiere took place during the International MEGA Record- and CD Fair at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and is supported by an exhibition of unique and valuable Beatles-memorabilia.

 

It is the first time ever that all the records, made by the Beatles, are catalogued in a book; therefore, this project is unique in the history of pop-music.

 

The co-operation between Moltmaker and Coomans started 4 years ago, when they met at the ARC-record fair in Utrecht. Both being passionate Beatles-collectors, they agreed that their was a great need for a complete inventory of the records the Beatles released in the 55 countries, during their 10-year career.

 

The result of 8 years of research is a first book, that contains all the 7" singles, released in Europe, from 1961 till 1971.

 

Each country is illustrated by a detailed discography with the following information:

Title of the song, year of release, labels and label numbers.

 

A picture of the sleeve is shown for each record, as well as the existing variations of the sleeve (e.g. colour variations, different titles, different pictures, etc...)

 

Each single is identified according to it's specific label number; in case of any differences, the details are shown.

 

Remarkable issues such as promotional releases, fanclub records and testpressings are also added to each discography.

 

The book has the dimensions of an LP-record and contains 220 high-quality pages.

It has a hard-cover, is printed in full-colour and is released by editor Boekenplan in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands.

 

Because of the international character of this project, the text is written in English.

 

The book will cost 50 Euro.

 

The complete discography project covers 5 books:

The first book deals with all the European single releases, the second book is about the singles released in the rest of the world.

Book number 3 will handle the E.P.'s, released world-wide.

A fourth book has been reserved for the LP-albums (long plays).

 

Finally a fifth book shall be published, which discusses the rarities, that are released until now.

 

Because of the high amount of very detailed information, the book will be a valuable source for the record collector. However, due to the illustrated character, Beatles fans and more generally spoken, music lovers will also be attracted to it.

 

The book will be released world wide; it is for sale in many shops and on several record fairs.

 

It is possible to order the book on-line via the websites of the authors.

 

THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE ON OUR THERE WHERE YOU CAN ORDER YOUR COPY ONLINE

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT:   http://users.pandora.be/samuel.coomans

 

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