Beatles Boxed Sets Show Capitol Butcherscarved Choice Cuts
The Washington Times › April 21, 2006
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American record executives were pop-culture assassins because of the way they sliced, diced and re-formatted the Beatles' British albums in order to multiply the number of U.S. releases.Or so goes the prevailing wisdom
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Beatles Boxed Sets Show Capitol Butcherscarved Choice Cuts
By issuing albums with only 11 or 12 tracks instead of 14 (as in Britain), by tacking on singles and EPs (usually omitted from the British albums) and by substituting orchestral music for Beatles' numbers on soundtracks, the label bosses (primarily at Capitol Records) stockpiled tracks for "extra" albums invented in corporate boardrooms.
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