Quoted from The_End

Woohoo - I picked up a copy of the book in Liverpool!! Also managed to find replacement copies of my first ever Beatle books - An Illustrated Record by Roy Carr and Tony Tyler and In Their Own Words by Miles. The original copies fell apart when I was a kid and the pictures ended up adorning my wall!!!

I did the same thing. I got 2 copies of it for Xmas in 1975. My 1980 editions got stolen. I still have a 1978 version that is in great shape. They are really rare, I looked up 'Illustrated Record' the other day and they cost quite a bit.

Blimey - that's a coincidence!

The original Illustrated Record I had was the one with the Beatles in their Pepper outfits on the front - that's the one I replaced. I bought a new hard-back copy a few years later - the one with the classic 1963 Dezo Hoffman picture on the dust jacket. I still have that one but it's a total mess now - but I'm tool old to put the pics on my wall now!!!!  

Quoted from The_End

Blimey - that's a coincidence!

The original Illustrated Record I had was the one with the Beatles in their Pepper outfits on the front - that's the one I replaced. I bought a new hard-back copy a few years later - the one with the classic 1963 Dezo Hoffman picture on the dust jacket. I still have that one but it's a total mess now - but I'm tool old to put the pics on my wall now!!!!  

The Sgt. Pepper's Cover was the First edition published in '75. The painting of Dezo's picture was 1978, and the 1981 (I'm pretty sure) had the Dezo picture, but it was more of an addendum after John died. Roy Carr and Tony Tyler really set the standard for Beatle books. Great stuff. You're lucky to have found the replacement.

Quoted from juniorsfarm

The Sgt. Pepper's Cover was the First edition published in '75. The painting of Dezo's picture was 1978, and the 1981 (I'm pretty sure) had the Dezo picture, but it was more of an addendum after John died. Roy Carr and Tony Tyler really set the standard for Beatle books. Great stuff. You're lucky to have found the replacement.

Yeah, I was really pleased when I found that! I had a bit of a book-fest in Liverpool this year - I must have bought nearly 20 books!!!

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Or the Butcher album "Meat the Beatles".

!!!! THAT'S what that's from. I've seen a picture of the "album cover" but ... yeah.

I've read a short out of "Liverpool Fantasy" -- it's included in Carved in Rock, which is all short stories by musicians. My library had it and I checked it out because it said Pete Townshend. XDXDXD

Anyway, that story is interesting, but as mentioned in the thread the writing's kinda weak.