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THE BEATLES/JOHN LENNON GO ‘BACK TO BLACK FRIDAY’ THE ROLLING STONES DO THE SAME WITH A PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACK!

MORE FROM BEASTIE BOYS, RYAN ADAMS AND SHARON JONES AND THE DAP KINGS AND EVEN MORE FROM THE YARDBIRDS, THE BYRDS AND THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL

When the best bands in rock history send a nod to the indie music stores, how much better can it get?

It is with great pleasure that we announce the upcoming Back To Black Friday release of The Beatles – The Singles (Apple/EMI), a brand new box set from the Fab Four featuring four 7” singles, each with an A-side sung by one of the four, in their original sleeves. The Singles will include a Record Store Day branded-adapter along with a poster. All eight tracks, (“Ticket To Ride”/ “Yes It Is,” “Hey Jude”/ “Revolution,” “Something” / “Come Together,” and “Yellow Submarine” / “Eleanor Rigby”) are newly remastered and those remasters are appearing on vinyl for the first time.

Apple/Capitol will also release John Lennon – Imagine – 40th Anniversary Box Set, a 2010-remastered LP, which includes six tracks on a stunning white vinyl 12” along with a poster. The record, to be released exclusively for the indie stores on Black Friday, will include tracks from the original Imagine LP, recorded at Lennon’s Ascot Sound home studio and at the Record Plant, and released in 1971 along with session outtakes of classic songs “How Do You Sleep,” “Jealous Guy,” “Oh My Love,” “Baby Please Don’t Go,” “I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier” and “Imagine (take 1).”

Yoko Ono, who is credited as the album’s co-producer along with Lennon and Phil Spector, says “Record Store Day is an important way to support independent music sellers, and I’m happy that Imagine’s 40th Anniversary LP will be a part of Record Store Day’s November releases.”

If that’s not enough, The Rolling Stones announce an individually numbered 7” vinyl single featuring an unreleased track from the Some Girls sessions: “No Spare Parts” b/w the newly remastered, “Before They Make Me Run.” Both tracks come from the upcoming Some Girls expanded editions.

Also for Black Friday, Capitol gives us a deluxe edition of Beastie Boys’ latest opus, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, the band’s eighth studio album—a partial collaboration with singer, Santogold, released in April 2011. The deluxe edition will feature a 60-page hardbound book along with video and music content on DVD and Blu-ray. The label will also release Ryan Adams’ “Do I Wait”/”Darkness” 7” single, including two demo tracks Ryan recorded at Electric Ladyland Studios in NYC.

In addition, Dap-Tone releases Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings’ Soul Time!, 12 blazing hot tracks, made famous in their infamous soul revue, the majority of which are unreleased, along with several tracks from previous 45s and from Daptone Gold.

In other exciting news, the Sundazed label releases The Yardbirds “Ha Ha Said the Clown” 7” single pic sleeve, (“Ha Ha Said the Clown” b/w “Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor”) and their “Ten Little Indians” 7” single pic sleeve, featuring “Ten Little Indians” b/w “Drinking Muddy Water”; The Byrds “The Times They Are a Changin’ “ 7” pic sleeve, (“The Times They Are a Changin’ “ b/w “She Don’t Care about Time”) and “Eight Miles High” 7” picture sleeve, (“Eight Miles High” b/w “Why”); and The Lovin Spoonful’s “Alley Oop” 7” picture sleeve, featuring “Alley Oop” b/w “Night Owl Blues.”

Expect more announcements in the coming days and weeks leading up to Black Friday.

Black Friday is organized by Record Store Day, a cooperative project of hundreds of independent record stores in the USA, Canada, the UK, France, Germany and Holland. This year’s Record Store Day saw the largest vinyl sales day in Soundscan history and lifted sales for the entire music industry. Organizers hope that “Back to Black Friday” will follow the “bigger-than-Christmas” success of their annual April event.

Most of the special releases are being issued as vinyl records – hence the “Back to Black Friday” name. The vinyl format has experienced a huge surge in popularity in recent years, spearheaded almost entirely by independent stores.

For more information on Record Store Day visit www.recordstoreday.com

Record Store Day Sponsors:

Crosley Radio, EMI Distribution, Fontana Distribution, Furnace MFG, NARM, RED Distribution, Sony Music, Universal Music Distribution, Vivendi Entertainment, WEA Distribution, and Warner Bros. Records.

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