Sold Date: February 1, 2021
Start Date: January 28, 2021
Final Price: £295.00 (GBP)
Seller Feedback: 2321
Buyer Feedback: 22

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The Beatles
Yellow Submarine
MONO
PMC 7070
*1st Press with NO credit to cover*
(another from my personal collection)

Roll up, roll up all ye Beatles fans....

This was The Beatles' eleventh official album release and interestingly enough, the first album of theirs to included non-Beatles material. Released, after a delay, in mid January 1969, the album made it up the UK charts to the 3rd position....With The Beatles' 'White' album denying it the top slot.
There were only modest sales-in comparison with other Beatles releases-as the sales were around 800,000 within the first three months, but it did go over the 1 million sales mark by the end of the year. This could have had something to do with the album having only four original tracks and the rest was George Martin's film score.

As a little bit of interesting trivia: Did you know the orchestral pieces from side 2 of this album were used in the NASA Apollo 9 mission films..?

So, here are the details of this album up for auction:

Catalogue number: PMC 7070

Matrix Numbers side 1: XEX 715-1
Matrix Numbers side 2: XEX 716-1
As you can see...It's the very first pressing...NOW LOOK AT THESE MOTHERS/STAMPERS:

Mothers/Stampers side 1: 3/GM
Mothers/Stampers side 2: 1/GD
LOVELY EARLY PRESSING HERE!!!!


Vinyl:
QUALITY 149g HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL
EX-.
 There are some very light marks to this glorious heavyweight slab of vinyl, but nothing to make her jump, stick or even ruin any enjoyment of listening to her!!
After giving her a gentle professional vacuum clean, I have just played her all the way through and found a simply superb deep and rich sound reproduction.
 Barely any background noise on side 1....I noticed a VERY light revolutionary 'Chh' on track 3, side 2 which only appears very briefly and then dissapears. Other than that I noticed some occasional light background crackle and a pop at the start of track 5, side 2...Nothing particularly offensive at all.
 Flat, heavy, all original and in glorious MONO!


Lables:
EX!
 She has the all important statement "Sold in the U.K...." showing it is a first press as well as "Mfd. in U.K."...If you needed any more convincing other than those
 HUGELY EARLY MOTHERS/STAMPERS.
Nice dark apple, rather than the later lighter ones.
Only light spindle marks, which are only visible when angled towards the light.


THIS VINYL REPRESENTS EXACTLY HOW THE BEATLES WANTED YOU TO  HEAR THIS ICONIC ALBUM.
Very displayable...Very playable ;-)
GORGEOUS


Cover:
EX-.
 It is the original cover VERY 1st printing cover-WITHOUT THE GARROD AND LOFTHOUSE STATEMENT TO THE FLIPBACK.
(Most you see have the Garrod & Lofthouse statement to the back)
Also:
 Has the two red lines above and below the text to the back. The back card has some slight discolouration as can be seen in the detailed images provided.
The flipbacks are in wonderfully strong condition, with the lovely rounded edges, with some light discolouration to cream.
The cover is the early cream cover, rather than the next printing of more white and darker grey for the 'hill' on which The Beatles are standing.
Only very light knocks/rubbing to the corners.
There are 4 or 5 small crescents of spidering to the laminate, with some tiny fingers of spidering eminating from the seams.
Excellently strong LEGIBLE spine.
Really is a display piece.

Please see the detailed photo's for yourselves and read my feedback for happy customers and fair gradings.


Inner:
VG(+)
It is the original black die-cut inner with the window to one side.
It is in great solid condition, but does carry a 7cm split to one side and a small 2cm tear to the opening.
However, it really has survived well as I rarely see these ORIGINAL BLACK INNERS in such good condition.

All in all it is a VERY rare, VERY first  day pressing of a wonderful album. She is one heck of a rare beauty!!!
SAD TO SEE HER GO.....

*FREE TRACKED 1st CLASS UK POSTAGE*
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POSTAGE PRICES
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ALL MY PACKAGING IS RECYCLED AND RE-PURPOSED...MADE BESPOKE FOR EACH RECORD I SELL.
UPDATED PRICES FROM JAN 2021.
*ROYAL MAIL HAS SCANDALOUSLY  INCRESED PRICES 4 TIMES IN 2020 AND INTRODUCED A NEW ZONING FOR THE USA*
SO, BELOW ARE THE 4th UPDATED PRICES.
**I WILL SEND WITHOUT INSURANCE/TRACKING BUT YOU NEED TO SEND ME IN WRITING YOU WANT THIS AND ARE HAPPY TO ACCEPT THE LIABILITY IF IT GOES MISSING**

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1 Lp UK: £FREE
1 Lp Europe up to 500g: £9
**Apart from Italy & Russia as these will ONLY be sent with tracking: £14**
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1 Lp World Zone 3 USA: £19.95 FOR TRACKED POSTAGE (thanks to the post office re-zoning USA to the most expensive on July 1st)
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1 Double Lp UK: £FREE
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Double Lp World Zone 1 (Everywhere else apart from USA, Australia & NZ) 1Kg: £20
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7" Singles:
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*ALL ABOVE PRICES INCLUDE PACKAGING AND MY TIME-I ONLY EVER ADD A LITTLE ON TO COVER THIS AND SOMETIMES LOOSE OUT AS WELL*
Tracking and/or insurance is a further £5 for international buyers-other than USA, which already has the tacking factored in.
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Thank you and good luck