1 cassette, white cassette shell, printed with blue ink. “Circle” MFP and Dolby logos. EMI couldn’t be arsed to print the song titles on the shell for this one, so they just vouched for the classic “See inlay card for details”.
1 cardboard wraparound inlay.
A presumed date would be around 1980 for printing – white shell, blue ink (dates to c. 77-82). Cassette bought in ’80. In Boots. For £1,25 (used to be 99p).
The Cassette was displayed hanging on a tall carousel; it had a cardboard back-plate (with a hook-hole), to which the cassette was fixed to, by means of a plastic moulded cover, glued onto the plate. The cardboard back-plate had the same artwork on as the cover.
The back plate is, however, long-since gone… and the wraparounds, like most of the others issued, are also damaged, mainly by struggling to fit them into 1970s cassette storage racks that weren’t designed to have cardboard-coated cassette boxes shoved into them. A recipe for disaster, for sure. I mean, what was EMI thinking?
My VERY FIRST CASSETTE ever! I know this cassette like the back of my hand - which could be bought in all the Boots Chemist stores in the UK, on a special carousel promotional rack. As far as I can remember, they costed about £1.25 each. My MFP "1st issue" had a wrap-around cardboard cover, which enveloped the whole plastic cassette box - front, spine and back - and the tape was white plastic, like many of the other 80s EMI Beatles tape releases, not see-through as seen here. The original Rock N Roll Music was released as a double album in 1976, which confirms the date of "compiling", as mentioned below. It was re-packaged as two volumes for the Music For Pleasure budget EMI label in 1980, and released as two LPs as well. I bought mine in 1980 too, inspired after they showed "Help!" on BBC1 as a tribute, after the assassination of John Lennon. The type shown here is the more modern, see-through "second issue, when EMI re-jigged and modernised all their Beatles tapes (you can tell which age they are because the original cassette inlay cards didn't have bar-codes).