Apple Records was a noble experiment created in the spirit of the 1960s by four musicians who came to represent everything that was best about those tumultuous, experimental, and liberating times. The Beatles started out with the greatest of intentions, but reality soon got in the way. Much has been written about this period in the history of The Beatles' evolution and dissolution---some of it true, some of it wildly exaggerated, but not much of it first-hand. The Longest Cocktail Party is a rare exception. Written by Richard DiLello, who served as Apple Record's 'House Hippie' from 1968 to 1970, this unusual first-hand glimpse into The Beatles' empire humorously chronicles the stranger-than-life stories that were to become legendary, including visits by the Hell's Angels and endless tales of celebrity antics. Alfred Music is proud to offer this latest edition, which features a new and insightful foreword by the author. Originally published by Playboy Press in 1972, The Longest Cocktail Party has proven itself a timeless chronicle of this most colorful period in pop history. / Divers
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19 If It Looks Good, Buy It! 89 Toreador, Don't Spit on the Floor 49 100 Easy Street 50 The Battle for the Largest Turkey in Great Britain Part Two 1969 115 This Grisly Rumor Receives 'The Press Offices of the World Award' for Being the Biggest Pain in the Ass of 1969 116 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue 117 The Last of the Sundance Kid 118 Bombshell 62 The Laughter, the Heartache, and the Pulse
Pounding Excitement of the Golden Age of Scottish Gorbals Rock
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Fresh Daily! 126 Sentimental Journey 90 John and Yoko Forever! 91 Jesse James, the Famous Train Robber, Said: 'I'm Gonna Rob All Your Women and Rape All Your Men!' A Startled Victim Protested: 'Jesse, Aren't You a Bit Confused• Shouldn't It Be the Other Way Around?' One of Jesse's Henchmen Lisped: 'You Leave Jesse Alone! He Knows What He's Doing!' 92 Ten Pounds a Week and All You Can Steal 20 Once Around the Piazza, Driver! 21 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue 22 Progress Report 23 The Black Room 24 The Pineapple Archives 25 Art Is Long, Life Is Short, Judgment Difficult, Opportunity Fleeting 93 A Galaxy of Stars 1968 The English at Work and Play 1 The House Hippie 2 More Money Than God 67 Showdown! 68 Some People Will Believe Anything 69 Where Progress Is Never Our Most Important Product 70 Business as Usual 131 John and Pablo 132 The Flame Flickers Some More 133 Let's Go to the Moving Pictures 134 Three Little Indians Sitting on a Fence 55 Chopped Liver, Wherever You're Going, I'm Going Your Way 1970 'The Man Who Designed the Apple Label.' 'Who?' 'You Know, Michelangelo, the Guy Who Painted the Mona Lisa.' 4 The Declaration of Innocence 72 Qwert 73 In Which the Truth Is Revealed in the Hard Light of Day 74 Let It Bleep 75 Introducing 136 The New Press Officer Gets It On 137 A Swan Singing a Song Flew Past the Press
Office Window and No One Even Noticed 138 Oops! 139 The End 5 Who's Who in the Zoo: Some of the Players 76 Mary Hopkin at the General Post Office Tower and a Barrel for Beatle John 140 News Item 124 Roller Coaster 125 The Flame Flickers 60 While You Were Out . . . 61 In the Name of the Father (John Lennon) and of the Son (John Lennon) and of the Holy Ghost (John Lennon) Amen 'We Do Not Wish to Add Any More to the Dialogue Already in the Media' 123 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue 56 Jack the Ripper
Offer Strikes Again 57 What's Shakin'• 58 Where• 59 Can You Spare a Sixpence for a Steak Dinner• 127 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue 128 When Sophia Loren Was Asked About the Similarity Between Her Looks and Those of Gina Lollobrigida, She Replied, 'It Is Like the Difference Between a Fine Race Horse and a Donkey But I'm Not Saying Who Is What' 129 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue 63 The Bright Lights of Savile Row 64 Fact 65 The Titanic Passing the Andrea Doria in the Night 30 Intermezzo 97 How Green Was Our Valley 31 Like Brinsley Schwartz over Troubled Waters 32 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue 33 The Women in Black 34 Double White 98 The House of the Open Door 99 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue 100 Say Please 48 Lost a Son But Gained a Daughter 114 Give Us Our Daily Sponge 36 Popular Photography for Fun and Profit 37 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue 38 Play the Album Cover and Throw the Record Away
Beatle Demystification 102 'Listen, If You Can Get the Papers Drawn up Real Quick I've Got Someone Who Is Ready to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge' 103 The Salvatore Guliano Commando Unit of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Reggio Calabria and the Sundance Kid 104 Press Office Release 35 Double White Again 101 Give Peace a Chance 44 And Don't Forget to Light a Candle for Me When I'm Gone 45 A Ghost from the Past 46 'When We Do Right, No One Remembers When We Do Wrong, No One Forgets' 47 Our Motto: Pleasure Before Business 110 Wait Till You Hear This One! 111 With Love and All Good Wishes 112 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue 113 Bad News and Wildcat Publicity 94 A Good Spot of PR for John and Yoko 95 Rumble in the Cathedral 96 Join Apple and See the World / The Montreal
Bahamas Bed
In 26 Fact 27 There Has Got to Be More Than Love to This 28 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue 29 Repertoire Entendre 39 The Procession of the Papparazzi 105 Screwed Again 43 A Well
Stocked Cupboard 109 The Pulse
Pounding Excitement of the Golden Age of Scottish Gorbals Rock Continues Part One 66 And Now It Is Our Pleasure to Announce This Year's Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 130 From Apple 3 'Who?' 71 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue 135 And Then There Were Two 6 Pre
Apple Apple 7 The Fun Begins 8 Derek Taylor of the Hoylake and West Kirby Advertiser 9 The Early Days of a Record Company's Struggle to Reach the Top
The Acquisition of Apple Talent Part Four 1971 Silence in the Court Till the Judge Blows His Nose 141 The Last Chapter / La Rêve N'est Pas Finie! 77 In Order to Comply with Accepted Community Standards 78 Bad Timing and Who's Been Reading Oliver Twist• 79 No, No, a Thousand Times No! 81 A Triple
Decker Ace Blue Meanie 82 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue 83 The Amsterdam Bed
In Appendix II Appendix III Appendix IV 11 You Learn Something New Every Day 12 A Hot Breeze in July 13 For a Penny You Can Buy a Book of Matches and Set Yourself on Fire 14 'Because I Don't Love the Queen But I Do Love Yoko.' 15 The Lamps Go On 84 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue About the Author 16 LSD Conditions and Beautifies Troubled Hair in Seconds 17 Diamonds in the Rough 18 Back at the Sandbox 85 There's a Hot Dog Stand on the Corner of the United States of America and It's Calling Me Back Home 86 Allen Klein and the Deoppilation of Apple 87 It's a Great Place to Get Stoned But I Wouldn't Want to Work There 88 Further Details Available from Apple / Regent 8232 106 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue 107 Play It Again 108 Conspectus 40 A Double
Decker Ace Blue Meanie 41 News Items 42 Samantha 10 The Fun Continues 80 There Is Still No Truth to the Rumor that Paul McCartney of the Beatles Will . . . Appendix I 'Hey, Man, How Do I Get in Touch with Ringo Starr?' 119 Look Who's Talking Now! 51 Call Me Up in Reno 52 Will You Love Me in Walla Walla Like You Did in Sing Sing• 53 Good
Bye My Fiji Island Baby 54 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue 120 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue 121 But Who Murdered Britain• 122 Arrivederci 1969 Part Three
Longest Cocktail Party, The
