Category: Bootlegs
Unauthorized vinyl and CD issues of western rock albums that circulated in 1990s by Andrei Tropillo and other publishers
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The Beatles — Past Masters
A very small run of 3,000 copies. Santa’s Past Masters mirrors the original CD Past Masters Vol. 1. Tracks from Vol. 2 had already appeared (mostly) on the label’s Hey…
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The Beatles — Hey Jude
Don McCullin’s photograph was replaced with a compositionally similar image. On different print runs, the initials of Nikolai Kibalchich appear either on the right or on the left, but the…
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The Beatles — Let It Be
It looks like the cover was taken from the CD booklet, enlarged, and left unchanged—the white frame around the photos is gone. The font of the title was swapped out…
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The Beatles — Abbey Road
It’s interesting that Abbey Road, the band’s final album, was actually the last Antrop bootleg released with Tropillo’s involvement in 1993. Since the album was such a hit, a bunch…
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Rare Beatles: The Beatles On Air
The cover illustration was originally taken from Alan Aldridge’s 1969 book The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics I. Almost all of the art from that book was reprinted in Russia by the…
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The Rolling Stones — Let It Bleed
The cover of the Russian bootleg was carefully redrawn by Nikolai Kibalchich, and all lettering was translated into Russian.
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The USSR’s First Pirate Compact Disc — From a Rolling Stones Fan
The first pirate CD made in the USSR was probably the “Rolling Stones — 19 Nervous Songs” (SUM 90 001) CD, which was made at Melodiya. Some sources call it…
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The “Archive of Popular Music” Series
The series started in 1987 with a little-known line called “Rock Archive,” which had just three LPs: Deep Purple — Smoke on the Water, Elton John — Your Song, and…
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The Beatles — Magical Mystery Tour
In 1991, the Soviet bootleg label Antrop released its own version of Magical Mystery Tour. This edition combined the album with Yellow Submarine, though the two records were later separated and sold…
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The Beatles — Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Russian Sgt. Pepper’s cover is full of quirky local touches that set it apart from the original. The text on the bass drum was localized while keeping the original style. Designer…