APPLE RECORDS.

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Apple Catalogue. An Apple Records catalogue issued to dealers listing various releases dating from the company's inception in 1968 until 1971. This volume offers a snapshot into Apple when they were still functioning as a "regular" record label before the company became preoccupied with managing the Beatles' back catalogue. In this period of time the company signed short-lived Welsh band Badfinger and issued James Taylor's debut record. Apple Corps was initially formed for tax purposes, just before the death of the Beatles's manager Brian Epstein, an event which also inspired a move to self-management. In a 1968 interview on The Tonight Show John Lennon explained, "our accountant came up and said 'We got this amount of money. Do you want to give it to the government or do something with it?' So we decided to play businessmen for a bit because we've got to run our own affairs now. So we've got this thing called Apple which is going to be records, films, and electronics - which all tie up".Though unmarked as such, this catalogue comes from the estate of Ringo Starr's former manager, Hilary Gerrard (1933-2023). Loosely inserted is a mail-out from Apple Records.

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