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Author:	Nigel Pearce
Title:	The Apples Of Our Eyes
Publisher:	United P.C.
Country:	UK
Date:	19 Feb 2020
Format:	Paperback
ISBN-13:	9783710344701
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334 pages. Book dimensions: 11.99 cms x 2.01 cms x 19 cms.

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Grasper 27th Jul 2023		Here’s the review I posted on Amazon: Where to start? On the plus side, it’s a good catalogue of Apple releases including unreleased projects. On the negative side is the infuriating writing style that’s chock full of grammatical errors, factual errors and a tendency for show boating. Mary Hopkin is referred to either as Hopkin or Hopkins, the King of Fuh 45 is listed as King of Fah. There is more. And check out this example of the writing (from p102, referencing the Mortimer album) ’Again I have a CD copy of the full original album, and it is a very sounding good album indeed and quite pleasing listening at any time’. Or marvel at this from p212 when discussing the Abbey Road LP, ‘I might add that I have left the final track Her Majesty off of the listing as the track it appeared originally as a hidden track - so I have done it in the same way’. These are not isolated examples, in fact you can open the book at any random page and find a pearler of an example of the English language being mangled in ways you wouldn’t believe. As for facts, the picture on p154 isn’t of the front cover of the never issued Richard Brautigan album, it’s simply a shot of the Harvest issue of the record (the giveaway is the Harvest logo top right…). And the claim that the author has a CD copy of the Apple release sounds fanciful at best. I’ll leave it at that. Check out also p23 and the front cover of Apple 1, The Lady Is A Champ by Frank Sinatra, recorded by Frank for Maureen Starr and reportedly restricted to just one copy. And now our man is telling us there’s a 45 sleeve for it, and he has it? Yeah, sure. Not that the picture offers any conclusive proof as, like many in the book, it’s fuzzy to the extent of being worthless and simply looks like a bad photograph of Ringo and Maureen. There’s the bones of a good book here and I don’t dispute that the author has an interesting collection but I doubt that even a fact checker and/or proof reader could salvage the mess. It really needs rewriting by someone with at least a modicum of knowledge of English grammar. I understand that our erstwhile author has not been put off and is to release a tome called Inside Number 3 with basic copies going for £75 and the deluxe £199. Good luck with that baby.

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