Ep146: The Beatles White Album and The Launch of Apple w Bruce Spizer
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2018
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
50 years ago The Beatles formed Apple Records and recorded The White Album. Noted Beatles historian Bruce Spizer tells the tale of that amazing year with details that music fans and record collectors will enjoy.
If you like records, just starting a collection or are an uber-nerd with a house-full of vinyl, this is the podcast for you. Nate Goyer is The Vinyl Guide and discusses all things music and record-related.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hey everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of The Vinyl Guide, the podcast for fans and |
| 0:04.2 | collectors of vinyl records. And this week, we are talking the history of the White Album and |
| 0:10.1 | Apple Records with Beatles historian Bruce Spicer. Bruce is one of the world's foremost experts in |
| 0:16.6 | Beatles history and vinyl records. And today, he's going to be sharing with us the story of the |
| 0:21.5 | White Album and the formation of Apple Records. The events leading up to it, what was happening for |
| 0:27.0 | the Beatles that made them form this company, the madness that was happening inside the walls of Apple, |
| 0:32.3 | the recording, the sequencing, the record pressing of the White Album, as well as the collectible |
| 0:36.9 | variations. We even talk about the challenges of the numbering system, the record pressing of the White Album, as well as the collectible variations. |
| 0:42.2 | We even talk about the challenges of the numbering system, the pressing differences, and heaps, heaps. More. By the way, Bruce has a great new book all about this time called The Beatles White |
| 0:47.8 | Album and the launch of Apple, available at Beatle.net. Both hard copy and digital reading formats are available. So get one today. |
| 0:56.0 | You can be reading it within minutes at beetle.net. And hey, big spender, while you have that |
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| 1:34.1 | And with that, let's talk Beatles vinyl and Apple Records with historian and expert, Bruce Spizer. |
| 1:41.2 | Do you listen to and collect vinyl records? Well, you're in luck. |
| 1:45.4 | Welcome to The Vinyl Guide, the podcast made for record nerds like yourself. |
| 1:49.6 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 1:53.3 | Hey, hey, hey, everyone. |
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