NOTES ABOUT ITEM AND CONDITION:  For sale is a copy of the following disc:
Brute Force - King of Fuh/Nobody Knows - NEW, SEALED - READ THE STORY! BEATLES!

THE STORY OF "KING OF FUH"

Stephen Friedland, AKA ‘Brute Force’, is the man responsible for perhaps the rarest single the Apple label ever produced.

He, or more accurately, his song came to the attention of The Beatles via a tape acquired from Nat Weiss, an attorney who was a close friend, confidant, and advisor to Brian Epstein. Weiss was given a demo of the curiously titled “King of Fuh” whose wordplay caught the fancy of both George Harrison and John Lennon, who championed its release on Apple. Harrison arranged for some strings to be dubbed on to the tape, and it was assigned catalog number Apple 8 in May of 1969, but never received widespread distribution due to the lyrical pun (he would be the Fuh King, right?). Lennon was furious, decrying Apple manager Ken Mansfield a “tight assed censor”. Neither radio nor retail would touch it, so a mail order channel was established by label President Jack Oliver. The number of copies estimated to have made it out ranges from 1000-3000, and as such, it remains one of the most collectible of all Apple releases.

Prior to his appearance on Apple in 1969, Brute (a New Jersey native) wrote songs that were recorded by The Tokens, The Cyrkle, Del Shannon and The Chiffons, and released the album “I, Brute Force: Confections of Love””, which has garnered cult status in the years since.

In 2020, a limited number of reissue pressings were made of the "King of Fuh."  This is one of them.

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