A little while back Wogblog’s Beatles site alerted us that the 1975 John Lennon “best-of” compilation Shaved Fish was being being readied for a re-issue on vinyl.
Always seemed like an odd one to select for a vinyl re-issue….
A little more digging reveals that the album is part of Universal Music’s “Back to Black” vinyl re-issue series which was created to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the LP record. Shaved Fish joins eighty-four other titles already released under the “Back to Black” imprint, including LP’s from the likes of Deep Purple, Bonnie Raitt, Steely Dan, Abba, Elton John, and Grace Jones – to name but a few. Each album also comes with a code for an MP3 download.
While the record won’t be available in the US until August 19 (according to Amazon US), turns out it’s already come out in the UK. Universal’s online listing for the record has a release date of July 14, and Amazon UK has it available to ship now. 
We found another Universal Music Back to Black website that seems to indicate that Shaved Fish is being issued on it’s original green Apple labels – and that Universal has been faithful to the original packaging, housing the album in an inner sleeve with lyrics on one side and a Japanese rising sun on the other:
If anyone already has a copy let us know if this is correct.
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Oh, wow – how fab?! John’s my fave Beatle, so hurrah! I do already have ‘Shaved Fish’, but it’s on very flimsy vinyl (perks of being an Australian) – now all these record people need to do is re-release Imagine!
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JB Hi-Fi (Australia) has the EU import in stock for $32.99. I was lucky to buy my copy for only $26.40 on one of their 20% off sale days a couple of weeks ago. The album is exactly as the 1975 original except it now has a Universal Catalogue number (535 111-2)
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