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Apple Records is a record label, founded in 1968 as a division of Apple Corps Ltd. by The Beatles. Earlier Beatles albums had been released on Parlophone in the United Kingdom, and Capitol Records or United Artists Records in the United States. In a new recording deal, EMI and Capitol agreed to distribute Apple Records until 1975; Apple owned the rights to records by artists they signed, while EMI retained ownership of the Beatles' records, though issuing them under the Apple label. The label survived the breakup of the Beatles in 1970, and was resurrected in the late 1980s, for use on all Beatles CDs. Apple Records own the rights to all of the Beatle videos and movie clips.

The first group to have a record released on the label (a 45rpm single titled "Dear Delilah") was Grapefruit. The recording sessions were in London in late 1967, and the producer was the American Terry Melcher of Byrds fame. Terry Doran, the director of Apple Publishing, helped to put the group together and his assistant Derek Lepper became the group's road manager.

During the 1974 proceedings dissolving the Beatles as an entity, a court ruling decreed that eighty perent of all profits from Beatles albums (as a group) would accrue to Apple Records, and five percent would go to each of the four members. The label consistently made a profit through 1984, mostly through continued issues of old Beatles records, then lost money for several years.

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Zapple Records

Zapple Records, an Apple Records subsidiary run by Barry Miles, a friend and ultimately biographer of Paul McCartney, was intended as an outlet for the release of spoken word and avant garde records. It was active from October 1968 until June 1969, and only two albums were released on the label, one by John Lennon and Yoko Ono (Unfinished Music No.2: Life With The Lions) and one by George Harrison (Electronic Sound). An album of readings by Richard Brautigan was planned for release as Zapple 3, and acetate copies were pressed, but, said Miles, "the Zapple label was folded by Allen Klein before the record could be released. The first two Zapple records did come out. We just didn't have [Brautigan's record] ready in time before Klein closed it down. None of the Beatles ever heard it."<ref>Barry Miles quoted by Richie Unterberger in the sleevenotes to the eventual non-Apple release of Listening to Richard Brautigan (link)</ref>. Brautigan's record was eventually released as Listening To Richard Brautigan on Harvest Records<ref>See [1]</ref>. A planned Zapple release of a UK appearance by comedian Lenny Bruce was never completedTemplate:Fact, and the label was shut down by Allen Klein, apparently with the backing of John Lennon<ref>The Archive Hour, BBC Radio 4, June 12, 2004</ref>.

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Releases on the Apple label

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The first LP release from Apple Records (also the first "solo" album by a Beatle) was George Harrison's Wonderwall Music, his soundtrack recordings for the movie Wonderwall, on November 1, 1968. Shortly afterward came the Two Virgins album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, released on November 11. (Both EMI and Capitol Records refused distribution, because John and Yoko were shown naked on the cover; the album was licensed to Track Records in the UK and Tetragrammaton Records in the US.) Two Virgins was closely followed by the first Beatles album released on the label, titled The Beatles but more commonly known as the White Album, appearing on November 25.

Some other Beatles albums released on the Apple label included:

The label also released singles, the most successful (non-Beatle) of which was Mary Hopkin's "Those Were the Days", a massive worldwide hit that Hopkin also recorded in four other languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish).

Apple Records had an eclectic roster which defies categorisation. Genres covered include rock (The Beatles), pop (The Beatles, Badfinger), Indian music (Ravi Shankar, George Harrison), modern classical (John Tavener), soul (Billy Preston), electronica (George Harrison's Electronic Sound on the Zapple sub-label), folk/easy listening (James Taylor, Mary Hopkin), avant-garde (Yoko Ono), urban protest/street music (David Peel), cajun music (Sundown Playboys), and jazz (The Modern Jazz Quartet).

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Artists who recorded on Apple Records

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Members of the Beatles and their bands

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Other artists

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Discography

Main article: Apple Records discography

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See also

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References

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The Beatles
John Lennon | Paul McCartney | George Harrison | Ringo Starr
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Management
Brian Epstein | Allen Klein | Apple Records
Production
George Martin | Geoff Emerick | Norman Smith | Abbey Road Studios
Official Studio Albums
Please Please Me (1963) | With the Beatles (1963) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Beatles for Sale (1964) | Help! (1965) | Rubber Soul (1965)
Revolver (1966) | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) | Magical Mystery Tour (1967) | The Beatles (1968) | Yellow Submarine (1969) | Abbey Road (1969) | Let It Be (1970)
Films
A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Help! (1965) | Magical Mystery Tour (1967) | Yellow Submarine (1968) | Let it Be (1970)
Related Articles
History | Discography | Bootlegs | Long-term influence | Beatlemania | Beatlesque | Fifth Beatle | Paul Is Dead | British Invasion | Yoko Ono | 1960s | Apple Corps
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