THE BEATLES Twist & Shout EP 1967 SOLID CENTRE Sold In UK Text SIUK

	£		200
	$		265

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MEGARARE THE BEATLES Twist & Shout EP 1967 SOLID CENTRE Sold In UK Text!

Here we have another MEGARARE Beatles UK 7", this time the (probably!) 1967 Solid Centre pressing of their 1963 EP Twist And Shout! Like the other incredibly rare solid centres I currently have listed, this sold in miniscule amounts, and referring to Popsike, and filtering out the later solid centres with no "Sold In UK" text, I can find reference to only 2 other copies having EVER been sold! However both of these were the 1968 solid centres with Sans Serif text used throughout! This is the very first mixed font copy to come to auction to my knowledge (and I've scoured for decades!)! 1967 copies with this mix of Sans Serif font for the main title, and Times New Roman font for the track titles,with the broad "Sold In UK" text are rare and sought after at the best of times,  but this is the first copy ever to make it's self known to me to have a mix of the two fonts and a solid centre other than the copy used in Bruce Spizer's essential book "Beatles For Sale On Parlophone Records", where he refers to it as label variant PAR 8882.MR4B. He doesn't specifically identify a push-out centre version of this variant, but I believe it to exist, but is rather rare (though not in the same league as this one!)
I have devoted a lot of time and expense to amassing some of the very rarest ones. It is therefore easy for me to forget that some people reading through this listing may not know the signifficance of the "Solid Centre", whilst I appreciate that those reader may not be the ones who are likely to invest this kind of money into this record, allow me to explain their signifficance!
In the early 1960s EMI soully pressed records with removable centres for use on jukeboxes, or certain large centre record players. These were all they produced until the mid 60s when a minority of records started being produced with "solid centres", that is centres that could not be removed, by 1967 they started producing these in signifficantly larger numbers. As such, certain titles are rather more common in solid centre such as Eleanor Rigby,Strawberry Fields Forever, and many of their later titles. Some however are so very rare, that even if you spend years searching and waiting for one to turn up (as I and a select few others have!) there is no guarantee you'll ever see one! This is one such title! It contains the upper-case perimeter "GRAMOPHONE CO." text.
I have dated this extremely rare copy at 1967 due to the fact that it has the  centrally embossed KT tax code on the side 2 label, and as these were phased outduring '68 due to the change in pricings rules that dates it before then. There is an odd discrepency anyway, as in 1965 the rim text was changed to "GRAMOPHONE" rather than "PARLOPHONE", but I've seen EMI use older labels for these very rare special order prints before. Who would be making a special trip to a shop in 1967,and asking for a Beatles record that sold in the millions 4 years prior, but now was yesterday's news? When everybody and his dog had a copy,and few wanted yesterdays hits,many of them would still be in "as new" condition,so the market was flooded and you could pick up a near perfect second hand copy for peanuts?! Then if this hypothetical person has ignored allof these options,what self respecting record shop wouldn't still carry the old unsold stock of previous Beatles records? Well in this case,and to date a handful like it that have come up for sale over the last 20 odd years, the record shop didn't, and had to make a special order with EMI to send them a newly pressed copy. All of these factors had to be in place in order for this record to be available to you now! Even of  these special orders copies at that time, that included the very rare central "Sold In UK..." text (which are all rare) almost none have ever surfaced with solid centres too! Check popsike or other auction history sites to see just how rare this record is! Discounting the much more common (but increasingly desirable) early 70s solid centres without the "Sold In UK" text,I count ONLY 3 SOLID CENTRES EVER, AND NONE WITH THIS TEXT VARIATION! If you wait to try and find another, you might be waiting years! Or you may very well just never see another one!

Record Condition: VG+ I  want it to be EX- as there are just a few light surface hairlines visible when angled into strong,direct light in an otherwise darkened room, but there are 4 (still very light, and in no way interfering with the music) marks visible when angled into normal light aswell. Think VG+ and you'll be extremely pleased I think!

Labels Condition: EX+ Completely free from abrrasions/tears/stains/stickers etc. Really lovely, just a few extremely light spinde trails around the central spindle holes when angled into strong direct light. Wonderful!

Sleeve Condition: EX- Completelyfree from graffiti/stains/wear-throughs etc, just verylight signs of careful handling, and a small nick to each of the die-cut corners of the opening mouth cut away. That's the only thing of significance to mark this sleeve down. Lovely!

DEADWAX INFO:
SIDE 1:
K T 2 4                        RPG   7TCE   762 - 2N

SIDE 2:
            KT                           A
2                        M                           O
  7TCE   763 - 1N
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