[2] Frogé was the owner of the English Bookshop in Paris, located at 42 Rue de Seine, and the album was recorded there, in what Jean-Jacques Lebel described as its "vaulted medieval basement.

"[3] Frogé paid producer Ian Sommerville a flat fee,[2] and asked Fluxus poet Emmett Williams and Lebel to write liner notes, which were published in both English and French.

Barry Miles, in his liner notes for the 1995 Rhino rerelease, says, "The Beatles may have been the soundtrack to 1965 for the beautiful people of swinging London, but to the cognoscenti there was something even cooler to listen to.

Art dealer Robert Fraser bought ten copies to give to friends such as Brian Jones and Mick Jagger.

[7]McCartney was so impressed by the album that he hired the producer, Ian Sommerville, to set up a studio and act as tape operator for him in an apartment Ringo Starr owned, but was not using, at 34 Montagu Place.