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LP

 

ARTIST: THE BEATLES

 

TITLE: PLEASE PLEASE ME

 

LABEL + YEAR:  PARLOPHONE PMC 1202, yellow & black 5th Press; UK 1965 MONO, with: ‘Sold in UK…’ & ‘The Gramophone Co. Ltd.’ Text printed in Sans Serif.

 

CONDITION VINYL: EX with some fine surface hair-lines.  PLEASE NOTE: all plays with a bright & fresh clear sound & no crackle a really nice copy!!!!!

 

Matrix Details:

Side 1: XEX 421 – 1N 

Stampers: 1C RAT

 

Matrix Details:

Side 2: XEX 422 – 2N (2N is HEAVILY Stamped)

Stampers:  6 P

 

CONDITION SLEEVE: EX with large ‘Mono’, some tanning to the rear, Garrod & Lofthouse Sleeve with Angus McBean photo credit to front; no tears or writing to the sleeve.

This sleeve is the original that came with the record in the 60s

 

DESCRIPTION:

All Music Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine 

 

Once "Please Please Me" rocketed to number one, the Beatles rushed to deliver a debut album, bashing out Please Please Me in a day. Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh, precisely because of its intense origins. As the songs rush past, it's easy to get wrapped up in the sound of the record itself without realizing how the album effectively summarizes the band's eclectic influences.

 

Naturally, the influences shine through their covers, all of which are unconventional and illustrate the group's superior taste. There's a love of girl groups, vocal harmonies, sophisticated popcraft, schmaltz, R&B, and hard-driving rock & roll, which is enough to make Please Please Me impressive, but what makes it astonishing is how these elements converge in the originals.

 

 "I Saw Her Standing There" is one of their best rockers, yet it has surprising harmonies and melodic progressions. "Misery" and "There's a Place" grow out of the girl group tradition without being tied to it. A few of their originals, such as "Do You Want to Know a Secret" and the pleasantly light "P.S. I Love You," have dated slightly, but endearingly so, since they're infused with cheerful innocence and enthusiasm.

 

And there is an innocence to Please Please Me. The Beatles may have played notoriously rough dives in Hamburg, but the only way you could tell that on their first album was how the constant gigging turned the group into a tight, professional band that could run through their set list at the drop of a hat with boundless energy.

 

It's no surprise that Lennon had shouted himself hoarse by the end of the session, barely getting through "Twist and Shout," the most famous single take in rock history. He simply got caught up in the music, just like generations of listeners did.

 

Side 1:

I SAW HER STANDING THERE

MISERY

ANNA (GO TO HIM)

CHAINS

BOYS

ASK ME WHY

PLEASE PLEASE ME

Side 2:

LOVE ME DO

P.S. I LOVE YOU

BABY IT’S YOU

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET

A TASTE OF HONEY

THERE’S A PLACE

TWIST AND SHOUT

 

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