Apple Records

[b]Please note, many Apple Records issues also carry an EMI logo. This is not a label and EMI should not be added as a label, it instead indicates that Apple was part of the EMI Group.[/b]

the company owned by the [a=The Beatles] launched its record label division early in 1968. Through a complicated series of deals, the Beatles licensed its records from [l=EMI] (in USA by EMI's subsidiary [l=Capitol Records] until 1976), which then handled distribution on Apple's behalf. This arrangement has, more or less, continued to the present.

Standard Apple album and single labels displayed a bright green Granny Smith apple on the A-side, while the flipside displayed the cross section of the apple.

Between 1968 and 1974, Apple released some 40 albums by other acts, the most successful being [a=Badfinger]. However, since then it existed solely to administer the Beatles' catalogue (group and solo) released between 1962 and 1976.

[a=Allen Klein] managed the label from 1969 to March 1973. Then, it was, for three and a half decades, run by on behalf of the four Beatles and their heirs, but he retired in 2007 to be replaced by [a=Jeff Jones (11)]. In 2009, after decades of wrangling, the company reached an agreement to license the Apple trademark (not the logo) from [l=Apple Inc.], the world-famous computer and electronics company. In 2010, a massive remastering campaign of the label’s entire catalogue began.

Label code: LC 1074

A history of the label has been written by [a=Stefan Granados] (published by [l=Cherry Red Books]).