A Hard Day’s Night on white vinyl for National Album Day in the U.K.
While we were waiting for the release of “Rubber Soul” in a new mix, the Beatles had other plans. So perhaps they are waiting to release “Rubber Soul” (and “Help!”?) to those album’s sixtieth anniversaries, in 2025.
The 2014 U.S. albums boxed set, unavailable since 2018 reappears.
What we are getting is a re-release of the 2014 U.S. Albums CD boxed set, a U.K. only release of the British “A Hard Day’s Night” album on white vinyl (most likely a pressing from the 2009 remaster, not a new mix) on October 19 for the “National Albums Day” in Great Britain, and a couple of curiosities on Record Store Day’s Black Friday on November 29th: an anniversary release of the U.S. single “I Want To Hold Your Hand” / “I Saw Her Standing There” and another 3-inch single, “All My Loving”, thus completing the set list from the first Ed Sullivan Show they appeared on.
A new release of the U.S. I Want To Hold Your Hand single.
The 3″-single comes with a box.
For the regular Record Store Day in April, we got the first four 3-inch singles, “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, “‘Til There Was You”, “She Loves You” and “I Saw Her Standing There”. With “All My Loving”, the set is now complete. Don’t know why we’ll need a second box though.
LINKS:
All My Loving (RSD)
I Want To Hold Your Hand (RSD)
A Hard Day’s Night (TheBeatles.com)
At Paul McCartney’s new leg of the “Got Back” tour, he has been performing “Now and Then”. On the big screen behind McCartney, images and photos from his current photo exhibition about 1964, scenes and outtakes from the “Now and Then” music video as well as footage from February 1964 by the Maysles brothers are shown, further suggesting that we will be getting a new “The Beatles’ First U.S. Visit” release of some sort. Of course, we are hoping for more footage to be included than what we got in earlier versions of the film, as well as the official release of the full Washington Coliseum concert film on physical media.