BEATLES "CANT BUY ME LOVE" VERY RARE SOLID CENTRE PYE?
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BEATLES "CANT BUY ME LOVE"
UNDOCUMENTED SOLID CENTRE
WITH ADVANCED ORDERS OF 1 MILLION IMMEDIATELY BEFORE IT'S RELEASE DATE OF MARCH 2OTH 1964 THE BEATLES SIXTH SINGLE INEVITABLY WENT STRAIGHT TO NUMBER 1 IN THE U.K.
ORIGINAL 1ST PRESSINGS OF "CANT BUY ME LOVE" ARE DOCUMENTED TO BE PUSH-OUT CENTRES WITH "THE PARLOPHONE CO" RIM TEXT IN UPPER CASE AND "SOLD IN UK" TEXT AND THERE IS ALSO A PYE CONTRACT PRESSING WHICH FEATURES THE SAME CRITERIA AS THE EMI PRESSING.
THERE ARE NO OTHER DOCUMENTED PRESSINGS FOR "CANT BUY ME LOVE"
HOWEVER HERE OFFERED FOR SALE IS A VERY RARE AND SELDOM SEEN UK SOLID CENTRE PRESSING OF "CANT BUY ME LOVE", THIS SOLID CENTRE CARRIES THE CORRECT 1ST PRESSING "PARLOPHONE CO" RIM TEXT IN UPPER CASE AND "SOLD IN UK" TEXT, HOWEVER IT IS KNOWN THAT EMI DID NOT START PRESSING SOLID CENTRES UNTIL 1966 BUT IN 1965 LABEL RIMS HAD CHANGED TO "THE GRAMMOPHONE CO", IT IS KNOWN THAT EMI WHERE RENOWNED FOR USING UP OLD LABELS ON NEW VINYL SO IT WOULD BE EASY TO ASSUME THAT THIS IS A 1966 PRESSING BUT WITH AN OLDER 1964 LABEL, HOWEVER CAREFUL EXAMINATION REVEALS THAT FIRSTLY THE VINYL APPEARS HEAVIER THAN A STANDARD EMI PRESSING, THE VERY CENTRE OF THE LABELS FEATURE A ROUGHER TEXTURE AND THERE ARE NO STAMPER LETTERS PRESENT TO THE RUN OFF GROOVE.
THEREFORE IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THIS VERY RARE COPY IS INFACT A 1964 1ST, SOLID CENTRE PYE CONTRACT PRESSING.
R 5114
7XCE.17657/8-1N-1N
KT TAX CODE TO RUN OFF GROOVE
NO STAMPER LETTERS
THE VERY RARE SOLID CENTRE LABELS, (PROBABLY PYE) WHICH FEATURE THE TEXTURED APPEARANCE TO THE INNER CENTRE ARE IN NEAR MINT CONDITION TO BOTH SIDES. INSPECTED IN NORMAL DAYLIGHT THERE IS JUST ONE VERY TINY SPINDL MARKS PRESENT TO SIDE ONE. LABELS ARE EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN AND HAVE RETAINED THEIR DEEP BLACK COLOUR WITH VERY VIVID SILVER LETTERING....LABELS DO STILL LOOK LIKE NEW.
THE GLOSSY VINYL WHICH SHINES LIKE A MIRROR IS STUNNING . THE VINYL HAS JUST A FEW VERY LIGHT BUT SUPERFICIAL SURFACE MARKS, WHICH WILL HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY THE VINYL BEING REMOVED FROM ITS SLEEVE DURING HANDLING, IT HAS TO BE STRESSED THAT THESE REALLY ARE MINIMAL . CLEARLY BARELY PLAYED THE VINYL LIES PERFECTLY FLAT WITH NO WARPING......... THIS LOOKS VERY VERY APPEALING AND IN NORMAL DAYLIGHT APPEARS MINT.
HOUSED IN ITS ORIGINAL PARLOPHONE SLEEVE, THE SLEEVE IS SUPERB WITH SOME LIGHT CREASING AND MINOR SIGNS OF AGE OR HANDLING.
THIS IS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO AQUIRE ONE OF THE RAREST SINGLE VARIATIONS SEEN IN A LONG TIME, SOLID CENTRE VERSIONS OF THIS SINGLE ARE NOT USUALLY DOCUMENTED AND THEREFORE MANY BELIEVE THEM NOT TO EXIST, WHETHER THIS IS A PYE CONTRACT OR A STANDARD EMI PRESSING (I DO BELEIVE IT IS PYE) THIS HAS TO BE A GENUINE MUST HAVE FOR ANY SERIOUS BEATLES COLLECTOR!