THE BEATLES LET IT BE BOX SET LP SUPERB CONDITION
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THIS IS THE VERY RARE 39 YEARS OLD BOX SET WHICH INCLUDES THE RED APPLE LOGO SLEEVE AND " GET BACK " BOOK WHICH ONLY CAME WITH THIS BOX SET WHICH WAS DISCONTINUED 6 MONTHS AFTER FIRST RELEASE JUST LEAVING THE ALREADY EXSISTING STANDARD " GREEN " APPLE LOGO SLEEVE AND BY NOW -3U -3u MATRICIES DISCS WHICH CAME IN TOWARDS THE END OF 1970 (THIS EXAMPLE HAS THE CORRECT AND EARLIEST -2U -2U MATRICIES DISC)
THE BEATLES Let It Be (Incredibly rare original 1970 UK 12-track LP box set also including the 160-page softback photo book 'The Beatles Get Back', packed with colour/B&W photos & text from the film, which was never sold separately, all housed ina superb laminated outer Garrod & Lofthouse picture slipcase box with 'Patents Pending'
THE BOX ITSELF IS IN SUPERB CONDITION AND 100% ORIGINAL AND COMPLETE
THE BOOK IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION HAS SOME LOOSE PAGES LIKE EVERY GET BACK BOOK THAT IS ORIGINAL ,
NEAR MINT VINYL VERY EARLY 1ST PRESS 2U MATRIX,S NEAR MINT THIS HAS ONLY BEEN PLAYED COUPLE OF TIMES AT MOST
VINYL COVER WITH RED APPLE LOGO IS IN NEAR MINT CONDITION
THIS IS FROM MY PERSONAL COLLECTION ,I,VE BEEN COLLECTING OVER 30 YEARS AND AM SURE YOU WILL NOT GET ANOTHER COPY IN THIS ORIGINAL SUPERB CONDITION
The original UK box set is, today, highly sought after by collectors. The box-set was originally available as mail order only six months before the official release date in May, 1970. By the time it hit the shelves as a commercial pressing it was just the standard LP. The original box set, an elaborately packaged set containing the LP and a book filled with notes and photos from the recording session and movie, is today very hard to find due to how it was never commercially available to buy in a shop.
The UK presses had a single sleeve with no gatefold, and the early copies had a red apple logo on the back cover. It isn't fully known why this was - there has been speculation that it was a symbol of how the Beatles were dying as a group, hence why it's blood red, but the most accepted suggestion is that the red apple indicated a film soundtrack release. This is why the US pressing of the LP had a red apple label. The red apple copies of the LIB LP were only around for a short while, for when the box set idea was scrapped the logo was changed to a green colour.
The complete boxset could contain the outer cover (which is just a piece of card wrapped around as a slidecase for the contents), the inner tray (which held the book in place), the book and the LP (which had the red logo on the back). Most box sets are in a pretty rough state and because the inner tray was so fragile it was easily prone to getting torn at some of the weaker joints. Some people even threw the tray away. The book, which contains hundreds of photos and notes from the film, was never sold seperately and were only ever available in the box set.
The box set was never re-issued and as such the only sets out there today are the original sets bought via mail order back in early 1970. Today they're extremely sought after
On 02-Sep-09 at 20:21:26 BST, seller added the following information:
would just like to add stated available as mail order only as i had believed this to be it has just been bought to my attention that some shops did sell this box set whether they had to pre-order i dont know.
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