BEATLES HELP LP 1ST PRESS MONO PMC 1255 1965 PARLOPHONE

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THE BEATLES HELP 1st PRESS LP

1965 PARLOPHONE MONO PMC 1255

SLEEVE....the front laminated 3 flipback  garrod & lofthouse sleeve is in as near mint condition

VINYL.....condition is  as near mint with black mirror like surfaces (has only 1. light mark)

LABELS.....both labels are in excellent +++ condition

Help! is the fifth album by The Beatles, and the soundtrack album from their film of the same name. Produced by George Martin for EMI's Parlophone Records, the album (in its original British form) contains seven songs that appeared in the film Help!, and seven that did not, including the most covered song in history, the Paul McCartney ballad "Yesterday".

The album also features two transatlantic number one singles: "Ticket to Ride" and the title track. Tracks like Lennon's "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" indicate the influence of Bob Dylan and folk music. In later years, Lennon said that the title track of the album was a sincere cry for help, as the pressures of the Beatles' fame and his own unhappiness (what he later called his "fat Elvis" period) began to build, and that he regretted turning it from a downbeat song in the style of Roy Orbison's "Only the Lonely" to an upbeat pop song as a result of commercial pressures.

McCartney contributed "Yesterday", "Another Girl", "The Night Before", and "I've Just Seen a Face" (which appeared with "It's Only Love" on the U.S. version of Rubber Soul). McCartney's versatility was demonstrated in one extraordinary recording session of this period, on 14 June 1965, which yielded, "I'm Down", "I've Just Seen a Face", and "Yesterday"[3]

George Harrison contributed "I Need You" and "You Like Me Too Much". These were Harrison's first song compositions to be included on a The Beatles album since "Don't Bother Me", from 1963's With The Beatles.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 332 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[1]

 Album cover

The album cover features the group with their arms positioned to spell out a word in flag semaphore. According to cover photographer Robert Freeman, "I had the idea of semaphore spelling out the letters HELP. But when we came to do the shot the arrangement of the arms with those letters didn't look good. So we decided to improvise and ended up with the best graphic positioning of the arms."[2]

On the British Parlophone release, the letters formed by The Beatles appear to be 'NUJV', whilst the slightly re-arranged U. S. release on Capitol Records appeared to feature the letters 'NVUJ'.

The following semaphore characters show the correct spelling of 'HELP'.

 Track listing

All songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted.

 Side one

All songs on side one appear in the movie.

1. "Help!" – 2:18
2. "The Night Before" – 2:33
3. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" – 2:08
4. "I Need You" (Harrison) – 2:28
5. "Another Girl" – 2:05
6. "You're Going to Lose That Girl" – 2:17
7. "Ticket to Ride" – 3:10

 Side two

1. "Act Naturally" (Johnny Russell, Voni Morrison) – 2:29
2. "It's Only Love" – 1:54
3. "You Like Me Too Much" (Harrison) – 2:35
4. "Tell Me What You See" – 2:36
5. "I've Just Seen a Face" – 2:04
6. "Yesterday" – 2:03
7. "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" (Larry Williams) – 2:53

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MINT (M): Unplayed, pristine condition, often still sealed.

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GOOD (G): The record has been played so much that the sound quality has deteriorated noticeably, perhaps with some distortion and/or scratches. The cover and/or contents may suffer from folding, scuffing, spine-splits, major discolouration, etc.

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