PLEASE PLEASE ME 1963 THE BEATLES LP MONO PARLOPHONE PMC 1202 XEX 421-1N XEX 4
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PLEASE PLEASE ME 1963
THE BEATLES LP MONO
PARLOPHONE PMC 1202
XEX 421-1N XEX 422-1N
Please Please Me, Parlophone, PMC 1202, 1963 mono. The Beatles FIRST official L.P. release. For the ONLY time, the mono version was issued 6 weeks BEFORE the stereo version.
This album contained the “A” and “B” sides of their first two singles, plus 10 new songs. All recorded in one incredible session at Abbey Road. The session cost just ?400 and lasted 16 hours.
The Beatles ?– Please Please Me ?– PMC 1202
4th Pressing – Summer 1963- January 1964
Thick Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
E.M.I. Records – E.M.I. Pressing
Label: Black Parlophone Yellow Logo Silver Print
“The Parlophone Co. Ltd’ at start of perimeter
‘Recording first published 1963’
Matrix: Side 1, XEX 421-1N Side 2 XEX 422-1N
Sleeve Front Laminated- Ernst J. Day & Co, Ltd
‘Photo – Angus McBean’ lower right corner
Tracing Paper Lined ‘Use Emitex’ Inner Sleeve
Thick, quality, glossy vinyl in very good condition with some light marks, great sound condition, sleeve has minor creasing, 18/6 biro on reverse, inner sleeve very good.
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Please refer to the photographs as they form an important part of the description.
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Please Please Me marks a vital moment in the career of The Beatles. Their debut album set in motion the wheels that would carry them to the very peak of public recognition, and subsequently into realms of sonic experimentation that would create a template for so much rock and pop music since.
Producer George Martin was, in Paul McCartney’s words, unsure of the band’s musical abilities when he invited them to Abbey Road to record songs they’d spent months perfecting live. In that environment they regularly shined, but studio experiences were still comparatively alien. What Martin recognised was a focus, a desire for more than their present lot. He listened beyond the music of the moment, hearing a future that these four young men would shape for themselves. The self-contained pop group was born, and quicker than either band or producer envisioned.
The recording of Please Please Me was fast, the band committing ten of these tracks to tape in just a single day – “a straightforward performance of their stage repertoire,” was how Martin summarised the sessions. Previously released single tracks and b sides completed the set. Featuring more originals than not, Please Please Me saw the McCartney-Lennon songwriting partnership blossom – from the title track to Love Me Do, There’s a Place to I Saw Her Standing There.
The immediacy that these songs carry remains irresistible, and Please Please Me’s lengthy reign at the top of the UK albums chart proved the perfect response to Decca’s rebuttal that guitar groups were “on the way out” when the label turned down the opportunity to sign the band. Lennon’s vocal on the climactic Twist and Shout is perhaps the most wonderfully loose, ragged-edged element of the entire record, and the essentially ‘as live’ recording showcases a group with their feet still very much in the clubs and theatres, performance just preceding actual arrangement. Their way with composition is relatively simple; effective, but black and white nonetheless, playing exclusively to recognised strengths.
A landmark album that stands up to repeated scrutiny and overexposure.
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