LP Beatles Please Please Me 1963 VG+ 4th Pressing Mono

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Beatles, funk, Elvis Presley, Rolling Stones, French, disco, Iron Maiden, Michael Jackson, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Beethoven, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Miles Davis, Sex Pistols, Deep Purple, Velvet Underground, Kraftwerk, James Brown
LP Vinyl Record Album - 1963
The Beatles - Please Please Me
Debut Album - 4th pressing MONO

Fourth Pressings (1963) 180gm

The standard yellow block writing Parlophone label.
The "All rights of the manufacturer" message around the edge of the label starts with "The Parlophone Co. Ltd." The label DOES have "Recording first published 1963", but NOT "Sold in the U.K..." statements. The word "mono" (or stereo) on the front cover is larger than in later editions.
Cover manufactured by Garrott & Lofthouse Ltd.- Photo by Angus McBean
Matrix numbers: XEX421-1N & XEX422-1N
Tax code side 2 around Spindle M T 

The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. In their heyday the group consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, the group later worked in many genres ranging from folk rock to psychedelic pop, often incorporating classical and other elements in innovative ways. The nature of their enormous popularity, which first emerged as the "Beatlemania" fad, transformed as their songwriting grew in sophistication. The group came to be perceived as the embodiment of progressive ideals, seeing their influence extend into the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s.

Please Please Me is the debut album by English rock band The Beatles. Parlophone rush-released the album on 22 March 1963 in the United Kingdom to capitalize on the success of singles "Please Please Me" (#1 on most lists but only #2 on Record Retailer) and "Love Me Do." (#17). Of the album's fourteen songs, eight were written by Lennon/McCartney, early evidence of what Rolling Stone later called "[their invention of] the self-contained rock band, writing their own hits and playing their own instruments."

Side one

#

Title

Lead Vocals

Length

1.

"I Saw Her Standing There"  

McCartney

2:57

2.

"Misery"  

Lennon with McCartney

1:50

3.

"Anna (Go to Him)" (Arthur Alexander)

Lennon

2:57

4.

"Chains" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King)

Harrison

2:26

5.

"Boys" (Luther Dixon, Wes Farrell)

Starr

2:27

6.

"Ask Me Why"  

Lennon

2:27

7.

"Please Please Me"  

Lennon with McCartney

2:03

Side two

#

Title

Lead Vocals

Length

1.

"Love Me Do"  

McCartney with Lennon

2:22

2.

"P.S. I Love You"  

McCartney

2:05

3.

"Baby It's You" (Mack David, Barney Williams, Burt Bacharach)

Lennon

2:38

4.

"Do You Want to Know a Secret"  

Harrison

1:59

5.

"A Taste of Honey" (Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow)

McCartney

2:05

6.

"There's a Place"  

Lennon and McCartney

1:52

7.

"Twist and Shout" (Phil Medley, Bert Russell)

Lennon

2:33