More Corgi Toy Buses

Lovely! Issued in 2008 heres the complete new set of Corgi Buses - featuring Sgt Pepper, Help, Revolver and Abbey Road. Nice touches include the bus number is the number of the album issued. The destinations are tracks on the LP. They have also been issued in a limited editon tin which I don't have - plus they've done the same albums in taxi form. I would have preffered it if they had done a different set of albums as taxis.... never mind, still like them.

Help and Hard Days Night novels

A cheap cash in on the films. Novels of the stories of the first two films. Doubt they'd win any prizes for literature. Never read them myself.

HELP - GEORGE MARTIN

A good tie-in with the film and Beatles LP - George Martin released an Lp of instrumental versions of the songs from Help -such as Yesterday, Another Girl, The Night Before and Ticket to Ride as well as one of his own compositions 'Bahama Sound' .

The sleeve notes are written by Brian Epstein - which includes this paragraph which now I'm reading it again doesn't really make any sense!!

''In this album of Lennon- McCartney (Harrison) songs Martin brings sympathy and understanding to the understood. He extracts the rest. What the Beatles in their modesty never will. These are songs to live with, says the Martin Sound.''

HELP

Up until Revolver, different versions of the LPs were issued in the UK. and USA.
Top we see the UK version and below the gatefold US. version.


This version had less tracks than the UK one but included some of the George Martin instrumentals . This way, they got away with only putting seven new songs on the LP!