Sold Date: November 5, 2014
Start Date: October 29, 2014
Final Price: £79.00 (GBP)
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Vinyl and cover in excellent ++ condition

Vinyl looks hardly played, with only a few faint wispy paper marks under a strong light.

THE BEATLES: "Please Please Me" LP. UK LP IN RARE STEREO ON THE YELLOW & BLACK PARLOPHONE LABEL.

  1965 PRESSING, THE VERY FIRST WITH THE JUST INTRODUCED "Gramophone Co. Ltd." LABEL RIM TEXT.

As well as the "Gramophone Co. Ltd." label text replacing "Parlophone Co. Ltd.", also during 1965, EMI now made the final

  adjustment to the format lettering size, on the front top corners of all their covers.  This was not unique to Beatles covers,

  but it is much easier to talk in terms of their albums, 'Mono' and 'Stereo' had been gradually reduced from the largest sizes.

  The largest lettering is found on the 1963 "Please Please Me" and "With The Beatles" covers, the first  change for the solid block lettering was in 1964, a medium size lettering was used for the mono and stereo album covers. Then in 1965 and for the rest of the 1960's, the final small lettering

size became standard, with the label text and cover changes.

  any unsold and still unused earlier covers were used up first, so there were 1965 - 1966 presed Stereo records placed into the

  earlier 1963 - 1964 covers, Stereo records were in very small minority.  

  the very first made 1965 covers, a new design and a new Patent had to be applied for.  You can see that text was actually printed

  freshly, not taken from an older template, the minute size of the 'Garrod & Lofthouse' credit and catalogue number is more like

  the 'EJDay' credit lettering size.  All the important details can be seen in close up pictures, the stunning condition cover considering the years.

  TEXTURED YELLOW & BLACK PARLOPHONE LABEL: PCS 3042. 

  MAITRIX: YEX 94 - 1 / YEX 95 - 1

  EMI STAMPING CODES:  AR / AR

  EMI MOTHER CODES : 1 / 1

  THE IMMACULATE TEXTURED LABELS HAVE:

THE PRICE CONDITION'S TEXT: "Sold In UK" (Introduced 1964)

THE RIMS HAVE "Gramophone Co. Ltd." (Introduced Mid-1965)

'STEREO' IS PRINTED IN YELLOW ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE '£' PARLOPHONE LOGO.

VERY FIRST 1965 'Garrod & Lofthouse' PRINTED, FLIPBACK EDGES, LAMINATED FRONT 'STEREO' COVER.

THE FRONT'S TOP RIGHT CORNER HAS THE SMALL SIZE "Stereo" LETTERING, "Patents Pending" Is PRINTED

ON THE BOTTOM FLIPBACK EDGE.   THE BACK HAS THE BOXED 'Stereo' PLAYING INSTRUCTIONS PRINTED 

ON THE BACK TOP RIGHT CORNER NEXT TO THE CATALOGUE NUMBER.   UNLIKE LATER 60's COVERS, THEY

  HAD THAT PRINTED ON THE BOTTOM CENTRE AND BY 1969, 'Mono' PLAYING INSTRUCTIONS APPEARED ON

  THE MONO COVERS, AS FOUND ON THE 1969 MONO "Yellow Submarine" SOUNDTRACK ALBUM.

  AN OUTSTANDING AND EXTREMELY RARE 1965 STEREO COVER WITH LITTLE WEAR AT ALL CONSIDERING ITS NEARLY 50 yrs old.

POSTAGE  COST FOR LP's

UK: UP TO VALUE OF £46, FIRST CLASS RECORDED DELIVERY  £7.00 

UK: OVER VALUE OF £46, FULLY INSURED SPECIAL DELIVERY £9.00

EUROPE: FULLY INSURED VIA INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR  £15.00

Japan/USA : fully insured international signed for £20

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