Tag: the beatles
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The Beatles Official Releases in the USSR
People in the USSR first learned about The Beatles in the early 1960s, at the peak of beatlemania. At that time, newspapers wrote sarcastic articles criticizing pop music. Soviet articles…
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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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The Sound of Misunderstanding: Misheard Lyrics, Beatles Homophones & Memes in Soviet Russia
Things like homophonic translation, soramimi and Soviet mondegreens is very interesting. Especially Soviet mishearings of English songs. This article aims to tell the history and evolution of mishearings (mondegreens) in…
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Rovesnik: The Soviet Teens’ Window to the World
Rovesnik — launched in July 1962 and published until 2014 — was a Soviet youth magazine intended for readers aged 14 to 28. With print runs in the millions during its…
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The Club and Amateur Performances: Another Brick in the Wall
It was the only magazine, apart from Krugozor, that featured flexible covers. Despite the period of Brezhnev-era stagnation, the magazine’s covers in the 1980s stood out for their interesting graphic…
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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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Student Meridian: A Soviet Youth Magazine at the Crossroads of Culture
Student Meridian was one of the leading Soviet youth magazines, founded in 1924 and published monthly from the 1970s. Mixing literature, social commentary, and pop culture, it became known for…