RARE BEATLES ALBUM SOUGHT BY COLLECTORS WORLDWIDE TO BE AUCTIONED BY KANAKARIS 'BUTCHER BLOCK' COVER WAS PURCHASED AT TOWER RECORDS IN 1967 and Bids Open at $20,000
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct 6, 1999 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Kanakaris
Communications, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: KKRS) announced that it will
offer one of the music world's most sought after items when it auctions
a rare Beatles album on the Internet LifeStyle Network portion of its
www.KKRS.Net web site.
The Beatles "Butcher Block" cover was originally purchased at Tower
Records in Sacramento in 1967 for $2.66. It is worth thousands of
dollars today. Kanakaris will set the minimum bid at $20,000 and bids
will close on December 20 with the winner announced prior to December
25.
Yesterday & Today was a Beatles album released in the United States but
not in the Beatles native England. It consisted largely of songs which
Capitol Records had deleted from the American releases of then recent
Beatles albums. John, Paul, George and Ringo posed for the cover --
perhaps as an editorial statement against their records being
"butchered" -- surrounded with broken dolls and blood. An uproar in the
press caused the group to reconsider and produce a new album cover
without the dolls and blood.
The earliest copies of the album had the new cover pasted over the
original cover. Those covers which were not "soaked off" to reveal the
original cover are the rarest of all.
The "Butcher Block" cover to be auctioned by Kanakaris has just one
corner lifted slightly to reveal the underlying original cover. It has
been held by one owner since its original purchase within a few days of
the album's release at Tower Records in Sacramento, CA.
Kanakaris recently opened an auction web site as part of the Internet
LifeStyle Network portion of its www.KKRS.Net entertainment web portal.
Further information on Kanakaris: Kanakaris provides full-screen,
full-length online motion pictures and secure direct over-the-Internet
book delivery at the KKRS.NetWork (www.KKRS.net), as part of its
eCommerce "World Downloadable Content Leader" package of services.
For further information on Kanakaris Communications (OTC Bulletin
Board: KKRS) and (www.kanakaris.com), contact Colby Marceau, director
of Public/Investor Relations, at 714-444-0560; fax: 714-549-8970;
e-mail: info@kanakaris.com; 3303 Harbor Blvd., No. F-3, Costa Mesa,
Calif. 92626.
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"Act"). In particular when used in the preceding discussion, the words
"plan," "confident that," "believe," "expect," "intend to" and similar
conditional expressions are intended to identify forward-looking
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uncertainties, and actual results could differ materially from those
expressed in any forward-looking statements. Such risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, market conditions,
competitive factors, the ability to successfully complete additional
financings, and other risks.
SOURCE Kanakaris Communications, Inc.
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