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#1-1 A Monument To British Rock (1st. Press: EMTV 17)
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A MONUMENT TO BRITISH ROCK
CATALOG NUMBER EMTV 17
RELEASE DATE
4th. May 1979 / First Press
TRACK LISTING SIDE 1 / THE BEATLES
SIDE 2 / GEORGE HARRISON
Roll Over Beethoven / Electric Light Orchestra
Get Back / The Beatles
My Sweet Lord / George Harrison
Itchycoo Park / Small Faces
Here Comes The Night / Them (With Van Morrison)    The Resurrection Shuffle / Ashton, Gardner & Dyke
Got To Get You Into My Life / Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers
Black Night / Deep Purple
Shakin' All Over / Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
Imagine / John Lennon
When I'm Dead And Gone / McGuinness Flint  Apache / The Shadows
Natural Born Bugie / Humble Pie
Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) / Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Wild Thing / The Troggs
A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Procol Harum
Down Down / Status Quo
The Hippy Hippy Shake / The Swinging Blue Jeans
Out Of Time / Chris Farlowe
See My Baby Jive / Wizzard
FRONT --> Click! BACK --> Click! SIDE 1 --> Click! SIDE 2 --> Click! DISK
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sleeve label label Released on EMI Records Ltd. but on the Harvest Label.
HARVEST logo was printed at the bottom of the back cover.
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Credit "Monument Liam Neary  Photo Terry Ellis" was printed at the bottom of the back cover.
Tracks A5, A8, A10, B1, B2, B8 and B9 are mono recordings electronically reprocessed to give a stereo effect on stereo equipment.
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SIDE 1
SIDE 2
Printer's credit "Printed and made in Great Britain by Garrod & lofthouse International Ltd." was printed at the bottom of the back cover.
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label label 1979 UK compilation vinyl LP on Harvest label type-4: "EMI RECORDS LTD" text appears around the top edge of the label, EMI boxed logo appears above gHARVESTh in the top left quadrant.
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"Compilation (P) 1979 EMI Records (UK)" was printed at the left side of the center hole.
Catalog number: EMTV 17"
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SIDE 1 SIDE 2
Including The Beatles, George Harrison, John Lennon, Small Faces, Procol Harum & more.
No writer or artist credits on labels.
"MADE IN GT BRITAIN" appears on the end of the perimeter.
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OTHER ITEM
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LABEL Harvest Label Type-4
MIX Tracks A5, A8, A10, B1, B2, B8 and B9 are mono recordings electronically reprocessed to give a stereo
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 EMTV 17 A-1
SIDE 2 EMTV 17 B-1
VINYL COLOR BLACK
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME EMI Records Ltd.
CENTRAL REMARK
"SOLD IN U.K."
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RECORDING  PUBLISHED CREDIT (P) 1979
COVER FORM Single type. laminated front and back
PRINTER CREDIT Garrod & lofthouse Ltd.
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES Monument: Liam Neary
Photo: Terry Ellis
INNER SLEEVE White paper sleeve "IMPORTANT NOTICE in rectangle box" Type-2-2
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COMMENTS 1979 UK compilation vinyl LP, which is unusual in that it includes tracks that otherwise only appeared on Immediate, Regal Zonophone or Apple, including The Beatles, George Harrison, John Lennon, Small Faces, Procol Harum & more.

Sleeve laminated front and back.
Released on EMI but on the Harvest Label.
Monument: Liam Neary
Tracks A5, A8, A10, B1, B2, B8 and B9 are mono recordings electronically reprocessed to give a stereo effect on stereo equipment.
No writer or artist credits on labels.

2nd. Press: Brown and Red EMI label (maybe)

From the summer of 1976 E.M.I. embarked on a new series of T.V. advertised albums, the first of these was EMTV 1 - The Beach Boys "20 Golden Greats" which stayed at the top slot for 10 weeks. Glen Campbell was EMTV 2, The Shadows were the third, and The Beatles became the 4th ... hence the unusual catalogue number.
EMTV 5 was The Supremes, EMTV 6 was Cliff Richard, EMTV 7 was The Black and White Minstrels, EMTV 8 was Buddy Holly, EMTV 9 was Nat 'King' Cole, and EMTV 10 was Frank Sinatra.
All of the above were heavily (and expensively) promoted on nationwide T.V. and all had immense chart success.

Harvest Records was created by EMI in 1969 to market progressive rock music and to compete with Philips' Vertigo and Decca's Harvest labels, initially under the direction of Malcolm Jones and Norman Smith. The first release in July 1969 was a UK issue of Deep Purplefs gBook Of Taliesynh which had originally been released in the US on the Tetragrammaton label at the end of 1968.
cf: "Rare Record Collector"



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