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Fact #100634

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Short story:

The Beatles' company >Apple Records announces that it is starting a new label, Zapple, devoted to experimental music and spoken word recordings.

Full article:

Barry Miles (label manager, Zapple) : Back in 1965 we'd had a plan to issue a monthly spoken word record. It might be poetry readings, or something that had gone out on the radio, or The Beatles chatting during studio sessions. Paul set up a little studio in Montagu Square, Ringo's old flat, but it never got as far as anything actually being released. Paul recorded his demos for Eleanor Rigby there.


As a result of that, in September 1968, I got the job as label manager of Zapple, which was to be the experimental arm of Apple. In the early days, Paul was actively involved in it.


We sent boxes of Beatles records to people like Fidel Castro and Mao Tse Tung so they could see we were a real record company, and we asked them if they'd be prepared to be recorded for the label, or let us have tapes of their speeches or whatever. We never heard anything back from any of them.


On the poetry side, I recorded Charles Bukowski, Michael McLure, Ken Weaver of The Fugs, Richard Brautigan, Lawrence Ferlingetti but most of them ended up coming out on other labels.