8104 - Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever Magazine Flexi-Discs and Fan Club Ephemera (1970s-1980s)

Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever Magazine Flexi-Discs and Fan Club Ephemera (1970s-1980s) Group of Beatles fan-club recordings and ephemera issued by Joe Pope’s Strawberry Fields Forever magazine in the 1970s and early 1980s, highlighted by six colorful 9-inch, 33⅓ RPM Eva-Tone flexi-discs: red Strawberry Fields #18, “An Audio Issue”; red #24, “An Audio Issue”; red #27, “A Hard Day’s Night Before Christmas”; blue #32, “Dark Horse, Paul, with Buddy Holly”; black #36, “Station WSFF, The One After 909 on Your Dial”; and yellow #40, “Let It Beaver.” Also includes the 1978 Washing the Defectives 7-inch EP on Pious Records, produced by Pope and featuring four tracks: ‘Soldier of Love,’ ‘I Feel Fine,’ ‘Theme From a Summer Place,’ and ‘Out of Limits.’ Includes original Strawberry Fields Forever material, such as an illustrated sleeve with a hand-drawn strawberry and “SFF”; an insert for #27 identifying it as the magazine’s third annual Christmas record and explaining its recreation of the Beatles’ train scene from A Hard Day’s Night; another subscriber insert discussing the production of a Christmas record; and several original mailing envelopes addressed to a subscriber in Texas, including one postmarked Boston, October 4, 1977. In overall fine condition, with light wear to the paper material.