THE BEATLES PLEASE PLEASE ME OG 1964 Australian Press MONO PARLOPHONE Y&B LP VG
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THE BEATLES - PLEASE PLEASE ME - OG Australian Press MONO PARLOPHONE Y&B LP VG
thank god for the deep groove on this early UK and Australian pressing a USA vinyl will never sound as great at this record with the scratches and scuffs that have . Played complete with no skips there some pops sound and static more notable during track transition but sound quality is good
My opinion record is in VG condition
I add a video of the record being played on the area with more scratches, sound still nice
The cover is in VG condition
Hard to find!!!!!! only early Australian pressing available at the moment on eBay
1964
YELLOW/BLACK mono
AU1202M2
Mar 1964
Matrix number side one XEX 421-1N
Matrix number side two XEX 422-1N
All my albums are ready for shipping using a record shipping box, they all arrived in a protective sleeve
THE AUSTRALIAN VERSION OF THE SLEEVE
All Please Please Me album sleeves manufactured in Australia between December 1963 and December 1980 are characterised by the following:
The front picture of the Australian sleeve is subjectively 'brighter' than the U.K. original; detail that was obscured in shadow on the UK sleeve is evident in the local version. The reason for this is that due to a Union ruling, EMI (Australia) was not allowed to use imported film negatives as source material for printing sleeves; so a photograph was taken of an imported UK sleeve and the resulting negative used as the source to produce local sleeves. Unfortunately film is analogous to an analogue format so a photograph of an LP sleeve will have some form of 'generation loss', which equates to compromises to colour, detail and relative brightness of the original. Presumably the image was tweaked to the most acceptable level of presentation and printing plates produced from that 'master'.
Blue text was utilised on both sides of the sleeve; not out of any determination to make the sleeve uniquely Australian but simply because it was cheaper to have blue text than black. It should be remembered that at that point in time, The Beatles were largely unknown in Australia and so EMI (Australia) was reluctant to spend any more than they absolutely had to on sleeve production - which is why 500 sleeves were imported from the UK to house the first Australian copies of Please Please Me.
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