Even though local tax attorney and accountant Bruce Spizer had authored seven meticulously researched books on the American editions of the Beatles’ records, he initially had no interest in examining the Fab Four’s overseas output. “I figured that somebody else would do a book on the British records — probably somebody in England,” Spizer said recently. “But no one ever did.”
Bruce Spizer at home in New Orleans with part of his extensive collection of Beatles memorabilia.And so Spizer and record collector/researcher Frank Daniels assembled the new “Beatles for Sale on Parlophone Records.” Over 444 glossy pages containing more than 700 images, the hefty, self-published narrative and pictorial discography chronicles, in exhausting detail, how every single, album and EP (“extended play”) slab of vinyl bearing the Beatles name was written, recorded and marketed in the United Kingdom between 1962 and 1970.
That output included 22 singles, 13 albums and 13 EPs released through the EMI subsidiary Parlophone, plus releases on the band’s own Apple Records, fan club Christmas discs, and recordings made in Hamburg, Germany and released by Polydor.
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