(BEATLES) PETE BEST FOUR "IM GONNA KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR"
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THE PETE BEST FOUR "IM GONNA KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR"
ORIGINAL & RARE UK DECCA 1ST PRESSING.
PETE BEST JOINED THE BEATLES AS THEIR DRUMMER ON AUGUST 12TH 1960 JUST ONE DAY BEFORE THE GROUP LEFT FOR HAMBURG. TWO YEARS LATER ON 16TH AUGUST 1962 BEST WAS DISMISSED FROM THE BAND.
IN AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE BEST BRIAN EPSTEIN OFFERED TO BUILD ANOTHER GROUP AROUND HIM BUT BEST DECLINED THE OFFER.
HE LATER JOINED LEE CURTIS AND THE ALL STARS BUT THEN BROKE AWAY FROM CURTIS AND FORMED THE PETE BEST FOUR.
THE BAND SIGNED FOR DECCA AND RELEASED "IM GONNA KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR" WHICH ACHEIVED ABSOLUTELY NO SUCCESS.
IN 1968 BEST DECIDED TO LEAVE SHOWBUSINESS AND AFTER A FEW ODD JOBS HE BECAME A CIVIL SERVANT WERE HE WORKED FOR 20 YEARS.
OFFERED FOR SALE IN OVERALL SUPERB CONDITION IT THE ORIGINAL AND RARE UK DECCA ISSUE "IM GONNA KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR".
DECCA F 11929.
THE DECCA LABELS TO BOTH SIDES ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. THE LABELS DISPLAY A FEW VERY LIGHT SPINDLE MARKS. BOTH SIDES ARE CLEAN WITH BRIGHT LETTERING AAND JUST A FEW SIGNS OF AGE BUT NOTHING REALLY MAJOR.
THE GLOSSY VINYL IS SUPERB WITH JUST VERY LIGHT, WISPY BUT MINIMAL SURFACE MARKS BUT NO ACTUAL NEEDLE MARKS. THE VINYL IS PERFECTLY FLAT WITH NO WARPING AND THERE IS NO DULLING TO THE PLAYING SURFACE.
HOUSED IN ITS ORIGINAL DECCA COMPANY SLEEVE..THE SLEEVE IS EXCELLENT, IT IS INACT AND FREE FROM ANY WRITING.
OVERALL A SUPERB EXAMPLE OF THIS VERY RARE AND SELDOM SENN UK RELEASE FROM ONE OF THE ORIGINAL BEATLES.
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