50 years: in the first of what will be a series throughout this year and next, we examine The Beatles’ Apple enterprise; focusing here on the start-up and in articular on Apple Publishing and the array of what-if talents drawn to the corps.
My guest is Axel Korinth, co-author of the two volumes of A is For Apple books – mammoth richly illustrated histories of Apple.
Songs heard in whole or in part: 1. Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days 2. The Perishers – How Does It Feel 3. Coconut Mushroom – Any Day Now 4. Grapefruit – Dear Delilah 5. Jackie Lomax and Elvis Presley – How The Web Was Woven 6. Jackie Lomax – Sour Milk Sea 7. Grenville and Weston – Aeroplane (acetate) 8. Slow Dog – Little Girl 9. Crosby, Stills and Nash – Blackbird 10. Contact – Round and Round 11. Chris Hodge – We’re On Our Way 12. White Trash – Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight 13. The Iveys – I’ll Kiss You Goodnight 14. The Iveys – I’m In Love 15. John Tavener – excerpt from The Whale (Melodrama and Pantomime) 16. Elastic Oz Band – God Save Us 17. Brute Force – King of Fuh 18. Bojoura – Everybody’s Day 19. Jackie Lomax – New Day (BBC) 20. Contact – Lovers From The Sky For more on the projects produced by Axel Korinth and Ed Dieckmann, see http://www.apcor.net/ For volume 1: http://www.apcor.net/a-is-for-apple-reprint/ For volume 2: http://www.apcor.net/a-is-for-apple-volume-2-the-winter-of-discontent-jan-mar-1969/
For the CD A is for Acetates: http://www.apcor.net/a-is-for-acetates/

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