Beatles: Love Songs New Sealed Dbl Album LP SKBL-11711

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New, unopened, factory-sealed The Beatles: Love Songs. Picture shown is auction item, not stock photo. My husband won it in the 1980s from a radio station by answering a Beatles trivia question. There is a hole punched through the cover, as shown. Your questions may be posted here unless you request otherwise. 
This Wikipedia article says, "The LP's original packaging included an 11 x 11 [inch] booklet, with the songs' lyrics printed, calligraphy-style, on simulated parchment paper. For the first several pressings, the cover itself was simulated leather, and the Beatles' image (a re-working of Richard Avedon's 1967 portrait, featured in Look Magazine) was simulated gold-foil."
Keywords: john lennon paul mccartney george harrison ringo starr richard starkey record double album

Product details

• Title: Love Songs [Capitol]
• Artist: Beatles (The)
• Format: LP

Additional Information about Love Songs [Capitol] by Beatles (The) (LP, Capitol Records)
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Track listing 1. Yesterday
2. I'll Follow the Sun
3. I Need You
4. Girl
5. In My Life
6. Words of Love
7. Here, There and Everywhere
8. Something
9. And I Love Her
10. If I Fell
11. I'll Be Back
12. Tell Me What You See
13. Yes It Is
14. Michelle
15. It's Only Love
16. You're Going to Lose That Girl
17. Every Little Thing
18. For No One
19. She's Leaving Home
20. Long and Winding Road, The
21. This Boy
22. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
23. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
24. I Will
25. P.S. I Love You

Details
Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Mixed
Album notes Having charted high with a grab-bag double album of Beatle rockers, Rock and Roll Music in 1976, Capitol compiled what amounts to the former album's flip side the following year, a two-LP collection of Beatle ballads. The 25-song set covers just about the entire heyday of the band, from their first single ("P.S. I Love You") to their last ("The Long and Winding Road"). No doubt it's a remarkable journey, indelible proof that John Lennon and Paul McCartney -- and, with "Something," George Harrison -- wrote love songs that were built to last, transcending their era. However, grouping them one after another was not a good idea. The Beatles were about balance, about the four personalities interacting, editing and enhancing each other -- and their music reflected that balance even as it grew wilder and more eclectic. This package tilts the balance much too heavily in one direction, and it gives the illusion of making even this endlessly inventive band sound like something that it was not: sentimental, predictable. The whole thing came in a double-pocket, brown imitation-leather sleeve with gold lettering, with a 28-page booket of lyrics and a double-fold Richard Avedon photo of the Fab Four -- a package aimed all-too precisely at holiday impulse-buying traffic. It only got up to number 24, though, the first Beatles Capitol album to miss the Top Ten -- indeed, the Top Three! -- since The Early Beatles. ~ Richard S. Ginell