THE BEATLES-BEATLES FOR SALE-PARLOPHONE YELLOW & BLACK 1ST PRESS MONO PMC.1240
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THE BEATLES-BEATLES FOR SALE TYPE SINGLE LP-MONO LABEL/PRESSING INFO PARLOPHONE YELLOW & BLACK 1ST PRESS WITH "THE PARLOPHONE CO LTD" RIM TEXT "RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1964"& "SOLD IN U.K." LABEL TEXT AND EMI PRESSING DETAILS: MATRIX NUMBERS XEX 503-4N & XEX 504-3N and stampers 25HP/1RL CATALOGUE NUMBER PMC 1240 YEAR OF RELEASE 1964 COUNTRY OF RELEASE U.K. SLEEVE TYPE GATEFOLD LAMINATED OUTER BOARDS WITH INTERNAL FLIPBACKS INSIDE OPENINGAND OUTLINE mono ON FRONT BOARD INSERTS/EXTRAS LINED EMITEX INNER GRADING/CONDITION DISC(s) EXCELLENT+ (NICE CLEAN copy with VERY LIGHT playwear and just a few VERY LIGHT surface handling marks,plays great with a great MONO reproduction. LABELS
EXCELLENT+ ( NICE CLEAN LABELS with NO writing stickers,rips or tears or evidence of heavy play,and some LIGHT spindleusage)
SLEEVEFront board EX CLEAN with NO rips tears or stickers,the laminate is bright and shiny with no ringwear just a little light rubbing wear and a small crease bottom right.INNER GATEFOLD:CLEAN and unmarked with VERY LIGHT handling wear Rear board EX+ MUCH as the front board.Clean shiny and unmarked with just light ageing and no creasing Flipbacks EX COMPLETE and clean with no cracking lifting or peeling. Spine VG QUITE a bit of surface wear with rubbing along the front edge a few bits of laminate missing and incomplete lettering Top & bottom edge EX ALL 4 edges have light wear only Opening EX+ Opening has just very light wear and very light usage Corners VG- THE right hand corners have only light wear,the top and bottom of the spine are worn with no laminate and damage to the card INNER /EXTRAS
INNER SLEEVE: EXCELLENT (NICE AND CLEAN with NO rips tears writing and with NO seam splits/repairs and a bit of darkening.
DETAILSIt was inevitable that the constant grind of touring, writing, promoting, and recording would grate on the Beatles, but the weariness of Beatles for Sale comes as something of a shock. Only five months before, the group released the joyous A Hard Day's Night. Now, they sound beaten, worn, and, in Lennon's case, bitter and self-loathing.
His opening trilogy ("No Reply," "I'm a Loser," "Baby's in Black") is the darkest sequence on any Beatles record, setting the tone for the album. Moments of joy pop up now and again, mainly in the forms of covers and the dynamic "Eight Days a Week," but the very presence of six covers after the triumphant all-original A Hard Day's Night feels like an admission of defeat or at least a regression. (It doesn't help that Lennon's cover of his beloved obscurity "Mr. Moonlight" winds up as arguably the worst thing the group ever recorded.)
Beneath those surface suspicions, however, there are some important changes on Beatles for Sale, most notably Lennon's discovery of Bob Dylan and folk-rock. The opening three songs, along with "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party," are implicitly confessional and all quite bleak, which is a new development.
This spirit winds up overshadowing McCartney's cheery "I'll Follow the Sun" or the thundering covers of "Rock & Roll Music," "Honey Don't," and "Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!," and the weariness creeps up in unexpected places -- "Every Little Thing," "What You're Doing," even George's cover of Carl Perkins' "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" -- leaving the impression that Beatlemania may have been fun but now the group is exhausted. That exhaustion results in the group's most uneven album, but its best moments find them moving from Merseybeat to the sophisticated pop/rock they developed in mid-career.
Postal Shipping & Handling charges Region Single Item Extra UK £3.00 £.70 Europe £4.50 £1.00 USA £6.50 £1.50 Japan/ROW £6.50 £1.50 Terms and Conditions Guarantee I like to believe that I have an inkling about these things and accurately describe the item I am selling,but I along with everyone else am only human,and there might be an occasion where my assessment differs from yours,in this instance please contact me,and I will without question accept your criticism and arrange a full refund + your return costs if we need to go down that route. Communication and Feedback I have always been a great believer that feedback is a mutual thing between parties,and should be recognised upon the satisfactory completion of a sale .I know that these days it really matter when it is left as there is no recriminatory comments allowable for a buyer no matter how despicable they behave,but non the less I still prefer to leave feedback once I know that the buyer has received and is happy with the item,and have set my feedback profile to automatically reply to feedback given -So you will get your feedback minutes after you send yours,alternately I could do it manually and with my memory you could be waiting a loooong time. Payment We accept the following payment types - UK Customers - Paypal Cheque or Postal Order. Overseas Customers - Paypal Onlyprice rating
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