Sold Date: October 17, 2016
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I am he as you are he, as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly,
I'm crying.
Sitting on a cornflake - waiting for the van to come.
Corporation teashirt, stupid bloody Tuesday man you've been a naughty boy,
You let your face grow long.
I am the eggman , they are the eggmen - I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob.
Mister city policeman sitting pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like Lucy in the sky - see how they run.
I'm crying - I'm crying, I'm crying.

Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess, boy, you've been a naughty girl,
You let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen - I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob.

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
From standing in the english rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen - I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob.

Expert textpert, choking smokers,
Don't you thing the joker laughs at you?
See how they snide like pigs in a sty, see how they snide.
I'm crying.

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna, man, you should have seen them kicking
Edgar Allan Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen - I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob.
THE BEATLES: "Reel Music" LP.  RARE UK FIRST & ONLY PRESSING MADE, ISSUED 5th JUNE,1982.

ON THE SILVER & BLACK, TWO EMI, BOXED LOGO'S PARLOPHONE LABEL: PCS 7218.
 
An historically major UK Beatles new album, but the failure to sell has seen the status diminish during the last 34 years.
Including UK export records, the black and silver Parlophone label had it's origin very firmly in the late 1960's and that only
placed it in the Beatles own era, while they were still together. The final Beatles LP as a new title or compilation released
  on the original black and silver Parlophone label, be it with two EMI boxed logo's by 1970, was on the 30th October 1982,
  "The Beatles ~ 20 Greatest Hits."   There were two issues made, the first pressing only, was on the silver & black labels,
  there were no bar codes on the back of the cover either, but there was on the later 1980's pressing and by then EMI had
introduced a new design, a black background with large open 'Parlophone' lettering.  First pressings of "20 Greatest Hits"
became the final silver and black, boxed EMI logo, Parlophone label Beatles album, that design was different though and it
  was no longer a direct descendant from the 1963 black & gold Parlophone label "Please Please Please Me" LP.   I will now
need to give the"Reel Music" LP's maitrix and stamping codes from only a few months earlier than "20 Greatest Hits", this album
was pressed March,1982 and conclude the pressing info underneath it.


MAITRIX: PCS 7218   A - 1 /  7218   B - 1

EMI STAMPING CODES:  22 ~ 1 / 25 ~ 1
The digits stamped at 9 o'clock are both '1' and as usual, signifying a first 'mother' per individual side, precisely as expected
  for an album with such low sales.  By the early 1980's, EMI no longer encoded the order the records were pressed in, every
  record made was still meticulously indexed though and the actual numerical position was directly stamped at 3 o'clock in the
  run-out grooves.  Not for long, because in those few months until October '82, all the information was moved to being stamped
  directly after the maitrix numbers, which remained in the 6 o'clock position. "Reel Music" was actually the last newly released
  UK Beatles album to have the index stamping's in the same position as their debut LP in March,1963.  19 years later, it would
   have been have been quite a coincidence or twist of fate had that been '20 years ago today,' only nine months prevented that.
  So for the very last time since the March, 1963, black and gold Parlophone label, "Please Please Please Me" album, a newly
   compiled and lavishly packaged Beatles LP, had the stamping codes positioned in the traditional 3 and 9 o'clock positions of
   the run-out grooves.  I guess those who only recently became aware such meticulous indexing for every single one of those
   millions of records pressed even existed, will not consider that important.  But for Beatles fans who were around way back,
  in those wonderful early days of the Beatles conventions and record fairs we traded at in this same 1980's decade, they will
  most likely be aware of all this anyway.
 
  So for the final time, this record's stamping codes '22 ~ 1 / 25 ~ 1' have the numerical position both sides were pressed in,
  still at 3 o'clock, '20 /25,' per side, from the first mothers per side, are extremely low in the manufacturing sequence.
 

THIS RARE COVER IS NORMALLY EXTREMELY WORN, CREASED AND A SHADOW OF HOW IT LOOKED 32 YEARS AGO,
  UNUSED AND CAREFULLY STORED, THIS IS IN INCREDIBLE CONDITION.
  All to tell here is literally from standing in storage from the day of release, EMI 1980's covers had a thin plasticised glossy
  top surface nor actual lamination.  With the large programme or book inside a single cover there simply had to be a record
  impression and a few related tiny edge lines.  The extra book inside added to the storage traits and as usual, the centre of the
spine area's has a few stress lines, the same applies to covers in every decade and that is not from use or constant handling
in the era immediately before CD's were the alternative media.   Only cassettes existed, an unplayed record like this becomes
definitive for how just standing in storage has some kind of impact on the cover, this is so minimal and minor, this ranks with
the finest I have offered.
  The UK printed cover has an encoded date; 'TM8203GL', 'GL' is of course the printer, 'Garrod & Lofthouse' and the date of the
cover's printing was 'March, 1982',  somewhere along the way, the LP release was delayed until June, 1982.  I can offer the
possible reason, the "Beatles Movies Medley" single was released in the same June, so it was most likely any delays were due to
the single's release, even more likely, the wonderfully film compilation video of the Beatles that accompanied the single.
I am always frustrated when grading covers with an unplayed record inside and perfectly stored, even a prefix of 'Near' is not
realistic after all those years but I accept the cautious and restrained approach  to grading covers....even when with a true Mint
record involved!
THE UNUSED, SUPERB UNWORN COVER IS IN NEAR MINT CONDITION.
 

  WITH A SUPERB EXCLUSIVE "Reel Music" CARD INNER SLEEVE, ONE SIDE FEATURES A UNIQUE COLLAGE OF
  FILM RELATED BEATLES PICTURES, APART FROM THE "Hard Day's Night" FILM, ALL THE REST ARE IN COLOUR.
  THE OTHER SIDE IS PLAIN BLACK WITH THE ALBUM'S LOGO; "The Beatles - Reel Music" IN RED & YELLOW COLOUR
  LETTERING AROUND A SILVER FILM TAPE SPOOL.
  WITH ONLY A GENTLE RECORD' IMPRESSION, IN UNUSED, UNFADED, UNSPLIT, MINT- CONDITION.


A FANTASTIC TOP QUALITY "Souviner Film Programme", MEASURING A LARGE 11"x 11", ALL 12 PAGES ARE IN
  AS NEW, CONDITION, I WILL NOT ADD A MINUS TO A  MINT GRADING TO ALLOW FOR BEING AGAINST THE INNER.
THIS WAS NOT A GATEFOLD COVER WITH A SECONDARY COMPARTMENT TO STORE INSERTS IN SEPARATELY.
THERE IS NO AGEING OR HANDLING SIGNS, THE PAGES HAVE A PURE WHITE BACKGROUND TO THE VIVIDLY
BRIGHT COLOURS ON THE SUPERB PICTURES. THIS HAS THE APPEARANCE OF AN UNREAD BOOK.
THE COVER AND SEMI- GLOSSY PAGES ARE IN UNAGED AND UNCREASED MINT CONDITION.
Full details of the inserts are given below and fully displayed in the following pictures, too much to include everything, to
show all the pages I compiled them into three pictures that include the spine's titles.  Maitrix pictures were among many I
reluctantly had to delete to get down to the 12 available, everything is detailed in text though.

THE RECORD IS GLEAMING LIKE NEW WITHOUT A SOLITARY TRACE OF HANDLING OF PLAYING, SO IT SHOULD BE,
IT NEVER PLAYED AND IN TOTALLY UNMARKED, AS NEW, UNPLAYED, MINT CONDITION.
SIDE 1
"A Hard Day's Night"
"I Should Have Known Better"
"Can't Buy Me Love"
"And I Love Her"
"Help"
"You've Got To Hide Your Love Away "
"Ticket To Ride"
"Magical Mystery Tour"

SIDE 2
"I Am The Walrus"
"Yellow Submarine"
  "All You Need Is Love"
"Let It Be"
"Get Back"
"The Long And Winding Road"
During the 1960's, any new Beatles album was guaranteed colossal sales and apart from one or two exceptions, that was how it
continued during the following five decades.  This album was one of the most lavishly packaged out of all the retrospective LP's
released with original Beatles music, in theory with a highly successful "Beatles Movies Medley" single reaching No.10 in the UK
charts, EMI's very expensive outlay for the "Reel Music" album should have at least replicated that success.  A seven song medley
single compiled from the above tracks, was accompanied by a superb video, a whole new generation were seeing and hearing the
Beatles for the first time and the impact of that can be seen from such healthy sales. "Beatles Movies Medly" was released at the
same time with the artwork on the 7" sleeve matching the album cover, there could not have possibly been more publicity for the
album and with the fantastic large "Souviner Film Programme" as a bonus to the superbly selected thirteen tracks.  EMI had every
reason to justify creating such an expensive package to manufacture, but in spite of the single being so successful, the album was
completely ignored but by a few. Many ebay sellers call the 60's Beatles UK albums 'rare,' but most of them went straight to No.1
on the strength of record shop's advance orders alone and then they had some of the longest chart residencies ever known, apart
from Stereo/Mono formats and any pressing/printing anomalies, only the condition's create 'rarities' among million sellers.

"Reel Music" is one of the rarest UK Beatles albums ever issued by EMI/Parlophone, few Beatles LP's as brand new projects failed
to enter the UK Top100 charts, but "Reel Music" sold so disastrously, failing to even gain the lowest chart position.  Making it
a genuinely rare album, only one pressing and printing batch was made and required, I wrote above in my headings this is a first
pressing but there was no need for a second to be made, only initial few first pressings were left sitting unsold in record shops,
I remember them ending up in bargain bins!  As such a money draining package, EMI halted printing and pressing as soon as they
  realised "Reel Music" was doomed to fade into obscurity. The most common found is the American Captitol Records issue, identical
  in format but this record was UK pressed and all the printing was made in Great Britain.  I have not seen a US copy for years now,
  people have stopped selling their Beatles records on the grand scale experienced during the 1990's decade, understandably so!
A real shame because the tracks created a fantastic Beatles album for the music, all tracks were related to the five 60's films,
  but what a superb package for the inserts as well.  A beautiful, deluxe  thick cardboard inner sleeve, with colour lettering for
  the "Reel Music" logo set on a shiny black background on one side, the reverse side has a wonderful, exclusive film strip style
  film collage of pictures from the films, mostly in ultra vivid colours. The inner has the UK 'PCS 7218' catalogue number printed,
  unlike the film programme, they were all  printed in the USA for UK albums, so you can blame them for using staples that started
  to rust as early as....1982 on 99%.   Apart from the film programme, the covers were printed in England l by 'Garrod & Lofthouse',
there are other specific details in my headings about the printing date.
 
  The 'Souviner Film Programme' is a really stunning item, the LP's cover's superb artwork of the Beatles outside a cinema, now
  moves them into the foyer on the front cover, with cartoon style Beatles characters.   Twelve colour pages contain excellent text
with some  wonderful pictures for all five films, with two pages per film, the back has an incredible collage of every Beatles
film posters etc. With only 12 ebay pictures available I had to sacrifice the back of the cover in preference to displaying all
the pages.    Measuring a large 11"x 11", another reason for calling this a fantastic album, I have given given the tracks above,
the first thing  to say about them is a reminder about my opening piece, this album was pressed in the analogue era and EMI's
mastering to vinyl produced superb stereo sound quality.  1982 pre-dated digital re-mastering, so no audio shocks here, just
outstanding sound awaits in the virgin grooves, plus the back cover was printed before the soon to be introduced bar code.
 
I have to treat this as a very rare unplayed record, in the same fashion I did for the ultra rare sealed copy, a completely unmarked
record, gleaming like brand new, does not require sound grading!   I have to to leave as I bought it, hearing those superb Beatles
  songs would only be for personal pleasure and I know full well EMI first  pressings have never escaped their very strict quality
  control, including every decade of vinyl mastering and pressing.  Then someone else can decide themselves if they would like to
  be the first to play it or perhaps keep the record in this fantastic condition. With the shrink wrapping creating the appearance of
how it looked when just bought on the day of release, nearly thirty years ago, with such ultimate inserts, that would be a likely
conclusion by the next owner.  The thirteen Beatles songs are well known enough to not need me to describe them, from playing
several other copies, I can quickly say here that this album was faithfully mastered directly from Abbey Road's Master Tapes.

  One final word, this album retains those original magical moments on the beginning and the end of "Get Back," when John Lennon
said in the form of very funny prose;
"Sweet Lorretta Fart, she thought she  was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan."
  The ending was as historic as 1963 when John invited Royalty and titled ladies to,"rattle your jewelry" along to "Twist & Shout."
So no clumsy and needless editing on the end of "Get Back," the album was indeed sourced from the Master Tapes because this has
John's final comment after the live roof top performance;
"I'd like to say 'thank you' on behalf of the group, and I hope we passed the audition."
  {Roy}
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