BEATLES "ELEANOR RIGBY" UK 3RD PRESS

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$ 75

£ 57 Sold For

Apr 1, 2007 Sold Date

Mar 25, 2007 Start Date

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BEATLES "ELEANOR RIGBY/YELLOW SUBMARINE"

ULTRA RARE UK 3RD PRESSING

ORIGINAL UK RELEASE.

RELEASED AUGUST 15 1966 "ELEANOR RIGBY/YELLOW SUBMARINE" WAS THE BEATLES SECOND DOUBLE "A" SIDE RELEASE. IT WAS ALSO THE FIRST TIME THAT THEY HAD RELEASED A SINGLE ON THE SAME DAY AS THE ALBUM ON WHICH THE TRACKS APPEARED (REVOLVER). IT REACHED NUMBER ONE IN THE U.K WHERE IT REMAINED FOR FOUR WEEKS.

WHEN ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN 1966 "ELEANOR RIGBY" WAS AVAILABLE AS A PUSH-OUT CENTRE WITH "THE GRAMOPHONE CO" RIM TEXT AND "SOLD IN UK" TEXT. HOWEVER, IN NOVEMBER 1966 EMI DROPPED THE PUSH-OUT CENTRE AND ADOPTED A SOLID CENTRE FOR ALL PRESSINGS THEREAFTER , SO IN 1967 WHEN SECOND PRESSINGS OF "ELEANOR RIGBY" WHERE ISSUED THESE CAME WITH SOLID CENTRES ONLY BUT STILL CARRIED THE SAME LABEL TEXT AS THE FIRST PRESSING.

THIS MOVE BY EMI OF FAVOURING THE SOLID CENTRE LED TO CONFRONTATION WITH P.P.L (PUBLIC PERFORMANCE LTD), THE COMPANY WHICH REGULATED THE PLAYING OF RECORDED MUSIC IN PUBLIC PLACES, THEY ACCUSED EMI OF MANUFACTURING SINGLES THAT WHERE IMPOSSIBLE TO PLAY ON JUKEBOXES, EMI DENIED THIS CHARGE AND INFORMED P.P.L THAT THEY WHERE PREPARED TO PRESS PUSH-OUT CENTRE RECORDS ON SPECIAL REQUEST. EMI STATISTICS SHOW THAT BY 1969 FEWER THAN 5% OF ALL ORDERS WHERE FOR RECORDS WITH PUSH-OUT CENTRES, THEREFORE ANY BEATLES SINGLE PRESSED AFTER NOVEMBER 1966 WITH A PUSH-OUT CENTRE WOULD HAVE BEEN A SPECIAL ORDER FROM EMI.

THIS PARTICULAR COPY OF "ELEANOR RIGBY" CARRIES "THE GRAMOPHONE CO" RIM TEXT, BUT NO "SOLD IN UK"..... THIS TEXT WAS DROPPED IN JULY 1969 WHICH THEREFORE MEANS THAT THIS COPY WAS PRESSED SOMETIME AFTER THIS, IT DOES HOWEVER STILL CARRY THE KT TAX CODE TO THE RUN OFF GROOVES TO BOTH SIDES. THE LABELS DO NOT CARRY ANY REFERENCE TO EMI (AS LATER RE-ISSUES DO) AND THEY ALSO CARRY THE EARLIER TYPE FACE WHERE "THE BEATLES" NAME IS SMALLER THAN THE TRACK TITLE, ON LATER RE-ISSUES THE NAME AND TITLE ARE OF A SIMILAR SIZE.

THEREFORE IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THIS IS A U.K 3RD PRESSING OF THIS SINGLE WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN A SPECIAL ORDER DUE TO IT HAVING A PUSH-OUT CENTRE.

R 5493

7XCE.18395/6-1-1

KT TAX CODE.

THE PUSH-OUT CENTRE LABELS TO BOTH SIDES ARE IN ABSOLUTE PRISTINE CONDITION. THERE ARE NO SPINDLE MARKS PRESENT. LABELS ARE SPOTLESSLY CLEAN AND VERY CRISP AND VIVID.

THE GLOSSY VINYL IS LIKE NEW AND MINT.... IT IS CLEAR THAT THIS HAS NEVER EVER BEEN PLAYED!!!

HOUSED IN ITS ORIGINAL TYPE "8" PARLOPHONE COMPANY SLEEVE.

OVERALL A TRULY MINT AND UNPLAYED EXAMPLE OF THIS VERY VERY RARE UK 3RD PRESSING...... VERY SELDOM SEEN FOR SALE AND IT IS ASSUMED THAT VERY FEW COPIES WHERE EVER PRESSED.

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