A DAY IN THE LIFE
THE BEATLES RARITIES HITS AMERICA
Monday, 24 March 1980
On this grey Monday in March, while most of Britain trudged back to work after the weekend, across the pond something rather interesting was happening in the ever-expanding Beatles universe. Capitol Records was unleashing yet another posthumous cash-in—sorry, "carefully curated anthology"—upon the American public. The Beatles Rarities hit the shelves of American record shops, featuring a collection of odds and sods that had previously been gathering dust in the EMI vaults.
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