Sold Date: December 10, 2015
Start Date: December 3, 2015
Final Price: £280.57 (GBP)
Bid Count: 14
Seller Feedback: 4098
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If the rain comes, they run and hide their heads,
They might as well be dead,
If the rain comes, if the rain comes.

When the sun shines they slip into the shade.
(When the sun shines down)
And drink their lemonade,
(When the sun shines, down)
When the sun shines, when the sun shines.

Rain, I don't mind,
Shine, the weather's fine.

I can show you that when it starts to rain,
(When the rain comes down)
Everything's the same,
(When the rain comes down)
I can show you, I can show you.
Rain, I don't mind,
Shine, the weather's fine.

Can you hear me, that when it rains and shines,
(When it rains and shines)
It's just a state of mind?
(When it rains and shines)
Can you hear me, can you hear me?
Rain, Rain....
THE BEATLES: "Hey Jude" LP. UK PRESS FOR EXPORT ONLY, 1973, ALL TRACKS IN ORIGINAL 60's STEREO MIX.


APPLE LABEL: CPCS 106.

MAITRIX: YEEX 150 - 1 / YEEX 151 - 1  
As a non domestic export only LP, an extra 'E' was added to the usual 'YEX'  stereo maitrix prefix, 'C' was placed in front of
the usual 'PCS' catalogue number suffix.

  EMI'S STAMPING CODES:  RP 1 3 / RH 2
 

ORIGINAL 1973 EMI INNER SLEEVE WITH 'Care Of Your Record' ,'Made In Great Britain' AND A PATENT NUMBER,
  UNUSED, UNSPLIT AND HARDLY AGED.  JUST A RECORD IMPRESSION AND A FEW RELATED LIGHT CREASES,
IN NEAR MINT CONDITION.


FULLY LAMINATED BACK AND FRONT, 'Garrod & Lofthouse' PRINTED APPLE COVER, THE EXPORT CATALOGUE
NUMBER, 'CPCS 106' IS PRINTED IN TWO POSITIONS ON THE BACK.    THE SPINE'S ALBUM TITLES & 'CPCS 106'
  ARE ALSO PRINTED ALONG THE TOP EDGE, SO IN EFFECT THERE ARE TWO SPINES.
  As an export only Beatles rarity, it was custom bought by the one original owner never to be played, then perfectly stored in
  a plastic outer sleeve since day one.  That has prevented any fading of the black background or the colours on the the front
  and back's unique 1970 Beatles pictures, totally unworn with anything here relating to the record's unavoidable and inevitable
impression.  
The two spines, all four  corners, the opening sides and the edges are all unworn, even so, of course it was like King Canute
  trying to hold back the tide, a heavyweight circular object inside a square has to leaves some kind of impression, with those
  few related laminate edge lines and ripples forming over the storage period of 42 years.  The back generally absorbs more of
the 'standing' or stress but this has the same impression on the front and back.  Any fully laminated cover molds around and
grips the record like shrink wrapping.   A few small laminate edge lines/crinkles are related to the record's internal position
  and naturally formed over 43 years.  I included two compiled pictures per spine, the central conventional album title and the
catalogue number, the top edge 'spine' title was close enough to incorporate the back's 'stereo CPCS 106', under that picture
is the top spine's catalogue number. The top edge white printing is partially covered by the overlapping seam on the back cover,
but clearly readable.
I SHOULD  ONLY GRADE ANY COVER IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE USE SINCE BRAND NEW AND THE STORAGE, BEING INSIDE
A PLASTIC OUTER SLEEVE SINCE 1973,  A TRULY BEAUTIFUL, NEAR MINT CONDITION.  AS ABSURD AS I FIND IT, I FEEL
OBLIGED  TO PRESENT AN UNUSED COVER OVER HARSHLY AS , EXCELLENT+++ / NEAR MINT CONDITION.


  THE LABELS ARE IMMACULATE WITHOUT ANY SPINDLE ALIGNMENT TRACES, ONCE AGAIN I FEEL OBLIGED TO
POINT OUT ALL RECORDS WERE HANDLED IN THE PRESSING PLANT AND RECORD SHOPS.  MOST ORIGINAL
ONE OWNERS WHO LEFT VINYL UNPLAYED WOULD STILL WANT TO LOOK AT THE RECORD ON PURCHASE,
ANY FEATHER LIGHT HANDLING ON THIS RECORD IS NEAR INVISIBLE TO INVISIBLE.  I COULD NOT FIND ANY
HANDLING TRACES, SO 'INVISIBLE' IT IS.   A STUNNING RECORD, IN UNPLAYED, MINT CONDITION.
SIDE 1
"Can't Buy Me Love"
  "I Should Have Known Better"
"Paperback Writer"
"Rain"
"Lady Madonna"
"Revolution"

SIDE 2
"Hey Jude"
"Old Brown Shoe"
"Don't Let Me Down"
"Ballad Of John And Yoko"

Before I get into the album, I want to clarify the the cover's grading, I find it really frustraitng to highlight so little for an
unused cover, that has held an unplayed, Mint record, for what has been fourty two years..... standing and holding the record!
Which is after all the purpose it was made for, yes, today we are aware that if you remove a record from new it will prevent the
impression that forms on matt and laminated covers, shrink wrapping cannot prevent that either and like lamination, when on
  the back and front, it tends to grip and mold around the record. That said, I am over fussing because all described just above is
  minimal and an unplayed record re-enforces how this has nothing to do with handling or use, the proof of that is how the same
design of full lamination can be seen on another UK EMI, 'Garrod & Lofthouse' printed Beatles cover.  I will explain further on
the relationship of this design as an export LP to the "Let It Be" album,  as anyone knows when removing an unused/ Mint cover
from the 1970 "Let It Be" Box", regardless of laying down and being unpressured inside, there is exactly the same impression,
laminate edge lines and the odd trace around the circular impression.  Enough said, I know the history of this album because it
was part of a superb collection I am currently listing on ebay, talking to the one original owner was like re-treading the same
  steps I took with the "Hey Jude" album, because it was not sold in record shops unless you were prepared to hunt down a copy.
  This was bought in England not abroad, export albums like this were only available in a few shops, for the region I still live in
  that meant going to London's West End, the hardest part was just being aware they had been made because the normal route of
  scouring the weekly music press did not include export only albums.  I bought my own copies of "Hey Jude" in the 1970's from
  smaller independent record shops who 'exported' them back into England, giving me full appreciation how these fully laminated
  covers reacted to the lightest, the tiny laminate lines that naturally form by the spine, are a small price to pay for the deluxe
  glossy finish lamination gives the two 12" x 12" front and back panels, a stunning condition record in a superb looking cover.
 

The record is indeed gleaming as if it was just pressed, there are no spindle traces on the immaculate labels and not even any
  handling traces of any kind, on either side.  A truly stunning looking record, now for some background info about the complex
  UK pressing history of an export album that had to wait nine years to be released domestically, only to be completely ignored by
British Beatles fans and failed to even enter the charts in 1979.  With my genuine long term playing "Hey Jude" as collector and
  a professional record seller, I know the export and initial domestic pressing so well,I can guarantee the opening run-in grooves,
every second of every track and their gaps, will run ultra smoothly without any any surface sound.   Of course faint static from
an unplayed record is always a possibility until it's played in, but my experience has been even that is not worthy of inclusion, a
bold statement, but one I happily back up with a full refund that includes return postage.   I am 100% that is only there as the
correct guarantee, I will confidently state here and now even the piano and vocal only, fully exposed start on Side 2 with the
LP title track, "Hey Jude" will have an ultra clean and clear intro.... so will the long, gradual faded out ending.  Yes, this is
the unedited, full length version of  "Hey Jude" and faithfully pressed from the original 1968 Master Tape when the export LP's
own Master Tape was compiled in Abbey Road studios.  Even the 1966 booming, loud bass on "Rain" was mastered exactly as it
was finished and the psychedelic heavy feel is here to enjoy in full, so is an equally powerful "Paperback Writer".   Worn copies
of "Hey Jude" distort exactly the same as the original 1966 single due to being recorded and mixed 'in the red' deliberately, I
would love to describe every track!


"Let It Be" might have been the final UK Beatles album, issued in May,1970, but there was still one other album pressed while the
  Beatles were still together, "Hey Jude".  On the 26th February,1970, Capitol issued this in America before that year long delayed
  "Let It Be" album was released.  In 1970 the UK "Hey Jude" was pressed, but only made here for an exporting and it was not given
  a release here until right at the end of the decade, 1979. The extremely very rare first UK export pressing came on the silver and
  black Parlophone label, not the Apple label and that had just one boxed EMI logo on the label, allocated an export only catalogue
  number 'CPCS 106', that always was and certainly still is extremely difficult to locate and of course a really expensive LP to buy.
There were two further export pressings of "Hey Jude", the first was in late 1970, a slightly darker green Apple label than this,
  the next and last export edition in 1973.  All three were never made available in UK record shops, ironically in 1970 I forgot to
  say before there was another method I followed to keep track of UK export and import USA albums, in the weekly music press
  there were retailers advertising the tantalising non-British released records in  classified adverts. For example, the USA Epic
  label released two Yardbirds albums with Jimmy Page installed as the lead guitarist that were not released here, the only way to
  get hold of a copy without flying to America, was either in the specialist shops in London or via mail order in the music press.
  If anyone thinks ebay was the beginning of vinyl travelling in the post, for the Beatles it all began in Christmas,1963 with the
  first Fan Club Christmas Flexi Discs.
 
  The 1979 rare first UK Parlophone label domestic issue covers were identical to these 1970 export LP's, exactly the same superb
  artwork on the front and back. Two different stunning photo's taken at the final Beatles photo session in early 1970, in fact the
   cover was the last issued with current Beatles pictures, because the May,1970  "Let It Be" LP's cover and box set book featured
   pictures from well over a year earlier in January, '69.  For example, Paul had shaved off his large 1969 beard and is the only one
  of the four clean shaven as pictured on the "Hey Jude" cover.  The 1969 catalogue number was now in line with Parlophone/Apple
  for domestic releases, 'PCS 7184,' and there were two 'boxed' EMI logo's on the silver and black labels.   Unbelievably UK record
   buying public chose to ignore such a major Beatles issue and it completely failed to sell, not even entering the UK charts,  Only a
  few months later on in 1980, EMI made a second attempt to release the album and continued doing that into the bar coded era of
  the 1980's & 1990's.   By then the vinyl had alarmingly shrunk to wafer thin and the matt cover was as pathetically thin with the
  printing grainy and poor.  The 1979 cover was laminated and the 1980 cover was given a protective shiny coating, the third issue
  domestic cover was matt, by then EMI were not prepared to spend any money on the quality of an album that had been ignored in
successive decades.  I personally found that beyond belief, every track on "Hey Jude" is an essential Beatles recording, all three
   export pressings are identical for the fantastic sound and the mix.
 
  As well as not having any differences from the 1970 sound quality, this 1973 record was sourced directly from the Master Tapes
   in Abbey Road, these are the original UK 1960's true stereo mixes and the tracks have just stunning sound!  "Hey Jude" has some
    of the ultimate Beatles recording's, including the very first stereo mixes issued of the previously mono only 60's single's B-sides.
   "Hey Jude" has one of my all time favourite B-side and Beatles tracks, "Rain" in true stereo is yet another reason why I consider it
   such an essential album and a very important part of my Beatles records. The sheer musical variety in the superbly compiled track
    configuration, means it always sounds 'fresh' to my ears and the most wonderful Beatles album to personally listen to as often as
   possible, making this ebay description a real pleasure.  The tracks  appearing in stereo for the first time were in George Martin's
   original 60's mixes, made at the same time as the single's mono mixes but were left left unissued until "Hey Jude" was compiled.
  The more I write about the actual contents the more tempting it becomes to take a listen, not that I will or need to, apart from my
  own '73 copy, I have heard more than enough Nr. Mint/Mint records to state categorically that every single record was mastered
  and pressed by EMI to the same sky high audio standards as in the recently passed 1960's decade.
 
  Side 1's label has the slightly lighter green Apple colour of 1973, for the export albums only, the maitrix pre-fix were given an
  extra 'E' to EMI's standard 'YEX', no codes here, 'E' signified 'Export'. Printed on the labels and both of the maitrix stampings in the
  run-out grooves at 6 O'clock read as, 'YEEX 150 -1/YEEX 151 -1.'  As noted in my headings, all three export covers had the album
  titles, "The Beatles", "Hey Jude" and  catalogue number 'CPCS 106' printed on the spine and on the top edge. The domestic album
  in 1979 only had the titles on the spine and not the top edge,  the catalogue number was changed to ' PCS 7184' and a new maitrix
  of 'YEX 981 - 1 / YEX 982 - 1.'


Taken as a listening experience, "Hey Jude" is a really special Beatles album, even for Abbey Road, such an immaculate pressing
  is more in line with an audiophile record, then there's the incredible selection of the Beatles music adding to why this is such an
  essential album.  Side 1 offers the most wonderful representation of how gifted musicians the Beatles were at performing their
  special brand of innovative psychedelic or heavy, electric rock music. The sequencing of the tracks between "Paperback Writer"
  and "Revolution" alone, gives a sensational listening experience!  Never issued as an official CD but the uniqueness of these UK
  1960's stereo mixes, plus the cover's last ever Beatles' photo's together have seen a bootleg CD version issued, I have a copy of
  one myself.  Not that any CD can give you the true sound, analogue vinyl exclusively contained that, but from a purely audio point
  of view, this record will have staggering sonic properties and the true stereo mix will be unbelievable from this unplayed vinyl.
  {Roy}
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