Ultimate collectors’ issue commemorates The Beatles’s final album, Let It Be, and Paul McCartney’s creative rebirth!
Deluxe tribute LP package on sale August 31, 2010.
MOJO, Britain’s biggest-selling music magazine, has created its rarest edition ever by launching its first vinyl edition.
The MOJO Vinyl Edition includes a full 12-inch album version of Let It Be Revisited – The Beatles’s final album from 1970 covered by a selection of MOJO-approved artists – as well as a special cover line-free collectors’ cover of the magazine.
The entire package is bagged in a heavy-duty plastic sleeve and is designed to slot in alongside the readers’ Beatles vinyl albums. Limited to 10,000 copies, The MOJO Vinyl Edition is an instant collectable and the rarest edition of MOJO magazine to date. The package is also designed to reflect the recent growth in vinyl record sales*
“The MOJO Vinyl Edition is our way of celebrating the rebirth of vinyl which we’ve seen in recent years,” explains MOJO’s Editor-In-Chief, Phil Alexander. “Essentially, we created an incarnation of the magazine that we wanted to buy ourselves so it was something of a labour of love.”
Let It Be Revisited features contributions from hotly tipped new acts including John Grant, Pete Molinari, Phosphorescent and The Jim Jones Revue, alongside classic artists like Beth Orton, Judy Collins, Dennis Locorriere and Dr Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson.
“In terms of the album itself, we hand-picked the acts and they all paid tribute to the enduring power of The Beatles by providing new perspectives on a set of classic tunes,” adds Alexander.
The magazine itself features an exclusive interview with Paul McCartney who revisits the records he made in the wake of The Beatles’s split – starting with his self-titled effort in 1970 and culminating in the triumph on Wings’ world-beating 1973 set, Band On The Run.
Also in the issue, award-winning author Jon Savage examines the impact of The Beatles’s demise, an acclaimed journalist Mark Paytress chronicles the rise and fall of the band’s label, Apple Records.
The MOJO Vinyl Edition is available from WH Smith, HMV and selected UK record shops. In the US it is available exclusively via Barnes & Noble and Borders. Limited copies are available to order via the MOJO website www.mojo4music.com
The full tracklisting for The MOJO Vinyl Edition of Let It Be Revisited runs as follows:
SIDE ONE
1. John Grant
Two Of Us
2. Dennis Locorriere
Dig A Pony
3. Phosphorescent
Across The Universe
4. Beth Orton
I Me Mine/Dig It
5. The Amorphous Androgynous
Let It Be (Part 1)
SIDE TWO
1. The Amorphous Androgynous
Let It Be (Part 2) incorporating Across The Universe (Reprised)
2. CW Stoneking
Maggie Mae
3. Besnard Lakes
I’ve Got A Feeling
4. Wilko Johnson
One After 909
5. Judy Collins
The Long And Winding Road
6. Pete Molinari
For You Blue
7. The Jim Jones Revue
Get Back
Ends
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* The Rebirth Of Vinyl
- Sales of vinyl in the UK grew by 5.2% in 2009 with the biggest selling vinyl album being Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago – an album afforded five stars in MOJO in February of that year. (source: BPI)
- In 2008 sales of vinyl in the US were estimated to be up from 1.9 million units the previous year to 2.8 million (source: Nielsen Soundscan) The figures are the highest since Nielsen Soundscan launched in 1991.
- 77,400 turntables were sold in the UK from the start of 2010 through to May compared to 41,400 CD players (source: What Hi-Fi)
As well as The MOJO Vinyl Edition, the standard issue of MOJO is also available from 26 August 2010.
MOJO is published by Bauer Media. The monthly celebrated its 200th issue in June this year and currently sells an average 91,678 copies every month (JanJun2010 ABC).
For further information, contact Sarah Ewing, Director of Press & PR, on 07740 110 788 or sarah.ewing@bauermedia.co.uk
