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The Billboard Magazine story about a Berkeley
consumer who got hold of the A Hard Day's Night
CD inside his copy of The Whole Story  was
turned into a segment in "Nina Blackwood"'s
"Rock News Report" on "Entertainment Tonight" yesterday evening.
The covers of both CDs were shown. But La "Blackwood" gussied
up the story a bit by describing Kate Bush as "a lyrical, soft-rock
singer", as opposed to the "hard-rocking Beatles album," implying
that wimpy Kate Bush would ordinarily be the last musician on earth to
be appreciated by tough, macho Beatles fans!
Obviously she has never heard "The Big Sky" or "Hounds
of Love", both of which use five times as many drums and a hell of a
lot more aggression than anything on A Hard Day's Night.
The "Blackwood" person also distorted the facts a bit by concluding
that "hundreds" of Beatles fans had been buying The Whole
Story CD since hearing of the incident; in fact, no
one really knows if that has actually been happening.
And it's quite unlikely, since any serious fan could see that in order
to determine whether a given Whole Story CD box contained A Hard
Day's Night, you'd have to open the package, thus making it impossible
for a potential trader to determine after the fact whether
or not the CD originally came in the package or was inserted later;
and especially since the Hard Day's Night CD will become available
in two weeks anyway.
It was interesting to see how TV news alters the facts
to make for a "better story".
 
-- Andrew Marvick