THE BEATLES: Please Please Me - BLACK/YELLOW LABELS
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THE BEATLES: Please Please Me (Parlophone, PMC 1202, 1963, LP)
Side 1 has RDG stamped at three o'clock, whilst side 2 has GTH. Matrix suffix is 1N both sides.
See the photos for sleeve condition, which is quite nice for early copies of this record, the only real problems being some damage to flipbacks and some shelf/edge wear. Despite a few surface marks, the record plays very nicely with some audible background only heard during a few track bands. To be honest, the second best playing copy of this I've ever heard (I'm keeping the other one!).
Bizarre Beatles-related coincidence #2 at the Hunter's Lodge pub, top of Mendip, in the middle of nowhere. Sunday lunchtime, post-Cheddar carboot, sometime pre-Covid, looking at the morning's haul of records. An elderly chap started taking interest when seeing the sort of 1950s/early 1960s classical LPs on Columbia that I'd bought, and introduced himself as Angus McBean's assistant in the very early 1960s. I knew that name from at least one of my Flanders & Swann LPs. He reminded me that it was also his boss that had taken the photo of the Beatles on the front cover of this one and then went on to tell me all about it.
EMI was throwing a party for Brian Epstein and the group to celebrate them finishing recording the album. McBean and his assistant had been at (presumably) Abbey Road as official photographer and they all piled into cars to get to Manchester House where the party was. The Beatles got there first and, as McBean and assistant were walking from car to building, the Beatles shouted from above, where they'd been hiding to surprise McBean. So, he took a photo of them, impromptu and unplanned. Iconic moment of history documented!
Bizarre Beatles-related coincidence #1 at the Hunter's Lodge pub? In probably September 2015 bumping into Mike Tobin, Stackridge's manager, whilst he was returning home during the band's final tour. Stackridge, of course, were famously produced by George Martin (who was also recording the soundtrack to Live and Let Die, complete with Wings, at that point), and when the band sacked their drummer during recording, he became Martin's chauffeur.
I reckon there's a Beatles trivia ley line up there!
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