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Mystery Abbey Road Insert?
Topic Started: Sep 5 2016, 06:02 PM (396 Views)
socorro
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I saw this listing for a US copy of Abbey Road that included an interesting poster. Here it is:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Beatles-Abbey-Road...s8AAOSw-kdXzCtd

My first question is whether this poster is authentic (i.e., from 1969).

Second, was it an insert for the Abbey Road LP in the UK/US/anywhere?

If not an LP insert, was it a publicity item for Apple? To whom was it distributed?

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muffmasterh
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socorro,Sep 5 2016
06:02 PM
I saw this listing for a US copy of Abbey Road that included an interesting poster. Here it is:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Beatles-Abbey-Road...s8AAOSw-kdXzCtd

My first question is whether this poster is authentic (i.e., from 1969).

Second, was it an insert for the Abbey Road LP in the UK/US/anywhere?

If not an LP insert, was it a publicity item for Apple? To whom was it distributed?

yes looks like a publicity item from Apple and from the UK as well i suspect, could have been sent anywhere.

Of course it could be phony but it doesn't look it.
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namralos
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At least one copy sold before (2010), and Mr. Yokono lists it on his site:http://yokono.co.uk/collection/beatles/uk/...p_stereo_a.html

Perhaps anyone could get one by writing...?
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socorro
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Thanks for the thoughts. It sounds like we have similar instincts -- I think it looks real, but I suspect it was a promo poster that it found its way into somebody's copy of Abbey Road, rather than a purpose-made insert.

It is an interesting item, not sure if it is $50 (or more) interesting to me.
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servi
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Interesting find. Could it be fanclub related ?
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bruno
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Interesting....I found that same exact poster tucked inside a USA Apple pressing of Abbey Road last year....I never saw that poster before and was wondering how it got in there.....So now that one is up on Ebay, it can't be coincidence that we both had the same poster in our copies of AR
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socorro
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Thanks Bruno. I wonder what the story is with the poster.
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gxios
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I bought a copy of the UK Two Virgins in the late 1980's and it had a fold out poster of the front cover in it, but I can't imagine that it was original to the release.
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gxios,Sep 14 2016
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I bought a copy of the UK Two Virgins in the late 1980's and it had a fold out poster of the front cover in it, but I can't imagine that it was original to the release.

Interested to see a picture of that poster. Do you still have it ?
There has been a poster for sale on Ebay for ages, not sure what that is (if it indeed is a printer's proof). Seehttp://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&...lobalID=EBAY-NL
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jimboo
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As the pictures were from the last Beatles photo shoot August 22nd 1969 can we assume these were found in later issues.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/08/22/be...al-photo-shoot/
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