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Rocker Fella 11th Feb 2019		Magazine Les Beatles Magazine	Photo of Canadian cover added
Rocker Fella 11th Feb 2019		Magazine Les Beatles Magazine	These books were also distributed to Canada, priced 50c, and possibly to other French speaking territories, where local price details might have been added.
Rocker Fella 11th Feb 2019		Magazine Les Beatles Magazine	32 pages, text in French, but based very much on the UK 'Beatles Book Monthly', using photos from that source. These were a supplement to a TV magazine, though sold separately. Ran to just 3 issues, this was the last, no obvious reason why it ended.
Rocker Fella 11th Feb 2019		Magazine Les Beatles Magazine	32 pages, text in French, but based very much on the UK 'Beatles Book Monthly', using photos from that source. These were a supplement to a TV magazine, though sold separately. Ran to 3 issues, no obvious reason why it ended.
Rocker Fella 2nd Feb 2019		Magazine The Beatles Book Monthly	From this issue, the front page banner changed. "The" is now in larger text and placed above the first "e" of "Beatles"
Rocker Fella 2nd Feb 2019		Magazine The Beatles Book Monthly	Many reprints used the wrong fonts when recreating cover banners. On the reprint here the "4" is wrong. If you know what to look for, an easy one to spot.
Rocker Fella 2nd Feb 2019		Magazine The Beatles Book Monthly	An original book has the date "FEB" printed clearly at the top...
Rocker Fella 2nd Feb 2019		Magazine The Beatles Book Monthly	Another obvious reprint shown here. Many of the later books simply copied photos from the originals. As a result, the quality deteriorated. Additionally, as here, the edges of the photos were cropped. John's pendant is missing on this cover, but fully visible on the original. All the photos inside this re-issue suffer the same cropping.
Rocker Fella 2nd Feb 2019		Magazine The Beatles Book Appreciation Society Magazine	There are two versions of this reprint, with the price on the front and later without (in common with many of the others). The competition to win a set of records was not repeated in version 2. There were several differences between the reprint of Book 1 contained in the two versions, so with the Original, there are 3 distinct UK versions of No 1..
Rocker Fella 2nd Feb 2019		Magazine The Beatles Book Monthly	One of the reprints with an obvious error on the front - the original book has the price 2/- top right (some had this in red print, less commonly in black)
Rocker Fella 2nd Feb 2019		Magazine The Beatles Book Monthly	Actually, this was first available in April 1966, not 1964, as noted from the editorial in book 33
Rocker Fella 2nd Feb 2019		Magazine The Beatles Book Monthly	Amazing. Really, amazing that these scans were uploaded over 5 years ago, and in that time no-one has pointed out that you just have a collection of 1970s reprints. I can't find a single original here, with the exception of the 'Special Repeat' (which was actually printed in 1966, not 1964). By the time the books were reprinted inside the Appreciation Society magazine, printing processes had moved on. Even if the original printing plates had been available (most had been sold, lost or destroyed) they would have been no use. The reprints used a scanning process to copy the text from the originals and initially, the original photos were used for the new books. As the series continued, laziness dictated that just scanning the photos from original books would do, and as a result the quality of the photos in later books is very poor. Every reprint in the series is different from its original, some very obviously so (details are changed or missing from some covers, or inside, a photo in book 4 is even the wrong one). And they smell different, too. Sadly, there is still no online resource for this great series. I have added a photo of a 1963 original.