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From: Bob Gill 
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Subject: Re: UK vs US album standards
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BigStar303 wrote:

> >On a somewhat related note, we all know that Sgt. Pepper was the first
> Beatles
> > album that appeared in the same form on both sides of the Atlantic. But it
> > wasn't the first by any British Invasion group to do so. I think that honor
> > belongs to Kinks Kontroversy, which was released in mid-1966, about a year
> > before Sgt. Pepper. Does anybody know of an earlier one?
>
> If "KK" is indeed mid-1966, then it beats my candidate, The Hollies'
> "For Certain Because" (October 1966).  It and it's American
counterpart
> "Stop! Stop! Stop!" have the same 12 tracks. The album title and cover
> art are different in the two countries, but the content is the same.

  Well, now you made me look it up. Kontroversy was released in November 1965 in
the UK, March 1966 in the US. So it's still the winner for now.

 -- Bob G.


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