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Owned by me since new, the gatefold sleeve and vinyll are in perfect condition.

EMI Parlophone 2C 070-07.291 released in 1980.

A collection of alternate takes or different versions of classic Beatles songs.
This is an album for the American market so some versions will be rarer to the Americans than to a British or European audience.

The highlight of the collection though is the reproduction of the Butcher cover which the Beatles submitted as the cover for their new American album 'Yesterday and Today' as a protest against American Capitol records habit of leaving certain tracks off their LPs and padding them out with a few singles or B sides instead.
A few albums did actually make it to the shops with the Butcher cover but the outcry was so negative that the records were quickly withdrawn and rereleased with a much gentler cover.

Tracklist
A1     Love Me Do     2:22
Version with Andy White drumming, not Ringo.

A2     Misery     1:46
This track never made it to an 'official' LP release in the US by Capitol but did appead as a 'Starline' Single.

A3     There's A Place     1:47
This track never made it to an 'official' LP release in the US by Capitol.

A4     Sie Liebt Dich     2:16
She Loves You, sung in German as a nod towards their early days in Hamburg.

A5     And I Love Her     2:36
A longer guitar riff at the end.

A6     Help!     2:16
The album version has a different lead vocal to the (rarer) single version.
This is the rarer, single version.

A7     I'm Only Sleeping     2:59
The American album version is very different from the British album release.
This is the British track.

A8     I Am The Walrus     4:32
The Americans mixed and chopped & changed I Am The Walrus in to quite a few different versions and mixes. This is one version.

B1     Penny Lane     3:00
A few extra trumpet notes at the end of this version.

B2     Helter Skelter     3:38
This is the Mono version which is quite different to the more common Stereo version.

B3     Don't Pass Me By     3:45
As above, a Mono version quite different to the more common Stereo version.

B4     The Inner Light     2:32
This song never appeared on a US album.

B5     Across The Universe     3:44
This is the original version of the song before Phil Spector got his hands on the tapes.

B6     You Know My Name (Look Up My Number)     4:17
The B side of the Let It Be single, never released in the US.

B7     Sgt. Pepper Inner Groove     0:02
This was gibberish that was on the run-out track to Sgt Pepper in the UK, but not on the US version.