BEATLES Help LP 1965 1st Press RARE STEREO FACTORY SAMPLE MT TAX CODE

	£		129
	$		171

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS AUCTION WILL END LATE WEDNESDAY 21ST DECEMBER (INTO EARLY MORNING THURSDAY 22ND UK TIME)!!!!!  OF COURSE, MY USUAL SUNDAY AUCTIONS WILL STILL CONTINUE ENDING EVERY SUNDAY - AND I WILL EVEN HAVE AUCTIONS ENDING ON SUNDAY 25TH DECEMBER (CHRISTMAS DAY)!!!!  SO PLEASE READ ON ABOUT THIS AMAZING ITEM BELOW - AND GOOD LUCK IF YOU DECIDE TO BID:-

On offer here is a VERY rare LP (especially in this condition!!!!) by The Beatles called "Help!" and is an ORIGINAL 1965 UK 1st Pressing on the 1st Press Yellow & Black Parlophone label!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!!!!  THIS IS ONE OF THE BEATLES RAREST & MOST SOUGHT AFTER LPs EVER - AND VIRTUALLY NEVER TURNS UP FOR SALE!!!!  JUST TRY AND FIND ANOTHER ONE!!!!  IT IS ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER LPs ON THE PARLOPHONE LABEL - AND IS INCREDIBLY HARD TO LOCATE TODAY!!!!  BUT WHAT MAKES THIS LP REALLY SPECIAL IS THAT IT IS 1ST PRESSED IN MEGA RARE STEREO!!!!  AND THIS IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ON THIS LP!!!!  BACK IN 1965 WHEN THIS LP WAS FIRST RELEASED, VIRTUALLY EVERY 1ST PRESSING WAS MADE IN COMMON MONO - WITH VIRTUALLY NONE IN MEGA RARE STEREO AT ALL!!!!  MOST SHOPS DIDNT EVEN STOCK STEREO'S AS STANDARD BACK IN 1965 - AND THEY WERE ONLY EVER AVAILABLE BY 'SPECIAL ORDER' ONLY!!!!  AS A RESULT - FINDING A 1ST PRESSING OF THIS INCREDIBLE LP IN MEGA RARE STEREO, IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE - AS BARELY ANY WERE EVER MADE!!!!

THIS LP ALSO HAS THE ULTRA RARE 'MT' TAX CODING ON THE LABELS - WHICH SHOULD NOT HAVE EXISTED ON THIS LP AT ALL!!!!  IT WAS CHANGED TO 'KT' OVER 2 YEARS BEFORE - AND IS ALMOST NEVER SEEN ON A STEREO 1ST PRESSING OF THIS LP (BARELY ANY EXIST!)!!!!

BUT WHAT MAKES THIS LP EVEN RARER STILL - IS THAT IT IS AN ULTRA RARE 'FACTORY SAMPLE' 1ST PRESSING!!!!  AND THIS IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ON THIS LP!!!!  'FACTORY SAMPLE' 1ST PRESSINGS WERE ONLY EVER PRESSED IN ABSOLUTELY TINY AMOUNTS (NO MORE THAN A FEW HUNDRED COPIES ONLY!), AND WERE ONLY EVER USED FOR 'IN-HOUSE' USE BY EMI / PARLOPHONE THEMSELVES (FOR PROMOTIONAL PURPOSES), TAKEN BY EMPLOYEES AT THE TIME (BY PERMISSION OF THE MANAGEMENT), OR VERY OCCASSIONALLY ONE WAS GIVEN OUT TO 'IMPORTANT VISITORS' TO THE FACTORY - SUCH AS PROSPECTIVE CLIENTS FOR EXAMPLE!!!!  THEY WERE NEARLY ALWAYS ONE OF THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSINGS EVER MADE (AS IN THIS CASE!) - AND ARE NOW VERY VERY HARD TO FIND!!!!  BARELY ANY 'FACTORY SAMPLE' PRESSINGS OF THIS LP WERE EVER MADE - MAKING THIS LP OF THE UTMOST RARITY!!!!

PLEASE ALSO NOTE HOWEVER, ALTHOUGH EVERYTHING SEEMS 100% CORRECT WITH THE 'FACTORY SAMPLE' STICKER (IT IS 100% GENUINE!), AND SPINDLE MARKS RUN ACROSS THE STICKER (AS YOU WOULD EXPECT), IT JUST SEEMS TO BE IN A STRANGE PLACE ON THE LABEL - AND NOT WHERE YOU WOULD USUALLY EXPECT TO FIND IT.  IT IS DEFINITELY NOT COVERING ANYTHING UP (YOU CAN SEE THE YELLOW PARLOPHONE LOGO FAINTLY THROUGH THE STICKER!), BUT AS THERE IS ALSO SOME 'TOUCHING IN' AROUND THE CENTRE HOLE THIS MIGHT SUGGEST IT HAS BEEN THROUGH MORE THAN 1 PREVIOUS OWNER.  THE STICKER ITSELF IS PERFECT WITH NO CREASES AT ALL.  EITHER WAY, I ACTUALLY FOUND THIS IN MY LOCAL RECORD SHOP AND HAVE NO HISTORY WITH IT - SO I THOUGHT I WOULD MAKE THIS CLEAR.  HOWEVER, I HAVE NO REASON TO DOUBT THE AUTHENCITY OF THE STICKER (OTHER THAN ITS PLACEMENT), AND THE 'MT' TAX CODE CERTAINLY MAKES THIS LP VERY VERY RARE INDEED!!!!

NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS LP IS IN GREAT CONDITION - WITH A BRILLIANT RECORD!!!!  JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES!!!!  THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1965 UK STEREO 1ST PRESSING ON THE 1ST PRESS YELLOW & BLACK PARLOPHONE LABEL, 1ST PRESS 'SOLD IN THE UK' TEXT, ULTRA RARE 1ST PRESS 'MT' LABEL TAX CODE, 1ST PRESS 'GRAMOPHONE COMPANY' EDGE TEXT, 1ST PRESS 'EMITEX' INNER SLEEVE, AND A 1ST PRESS 'GARROD & LOFTHOUSE' FLIPBACK LAMINATED 'PATENTS PENDING' STEREO COVER (WITH 'OUTLINE' STEREO ON THE COVER FRONT!)!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!!  This is the ORIGINAL Parlophone UK 1st Pressing from 1965 and is in GREAT condition!!!!  The record is pressed on THICK quality vinyl!!!!  The matrix numbers are YEX 168-1 & YEX 169-1.  The Cat. No is PCS 3071 on the ORIGINAL 1st Press Yellow & Black Parlophone label (see picture) and is a much MUCH rarer STEREO 1st pressing!!!! 

The record labels are in BRILLIANT condition (see pictures) with NO writing, NO wear (apart from the aforementioned 'touching in' traces around the centre hole!), and only a few light spindle marks on either label!!!!  The vinyl is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  Most of these 60s LPs had been to a lot of wild parties and are usually found totally worn out, and almost unplayable. This one is NOT, and has NO scratches, only 2 or 3 VERY light hairlines, only 2 or 3 VERY light scufflines, and only a VERY few of the lightest paper scuffs only visible under light!!!!  THE RECORD STILL RETAINS ITS ORIGINAL 'JUST PRESSED' LOOK AND SHINES LIKE NEW!!!!  It is also great to find that the record plays as STUNNINGLY as the visual!!!!  It plays with NO skips, barely ANY clicks, NO sticking, NO jumps, barely ANY crackle AT ALL, and only some VERY slight background sound on the run on grooves & gaps - NOT in the music AT ALL!!!!  The sound quality is simply SUPERB with NO groovewear and NO distortion either!!!!  The record must grade Very Good++ if not better!!!!  Believe me this record is NOT overgraded in ANY way!!!!  I use STRICT RC grading standards - it is not in my interest not to!!!! Brillant!!!!  The record also comes in its ORIGINAL 1st Press Emitex inner sleeve which is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  The ORIGINAL 1st Press 'Garrod & Lofthouse' Flipback Laminated 'Patents Pending' STEREO Cover is in GREAT condition!!!!  It has NO edge wear, NO spinal wear, slight corner wear (NOT through the colour!), NO splits, a few creases towards the edges (cover is still VERY flat looking!), NO rips, NO tears, VERY shiny laminate, NO annotations, and NO writing!!!!  The opening edge is beautifully straight with barely ANY feathering AT ALL - though there is a marginal indication of trimming (which proves what I said about this LP having a few previous owners in the past)!!!!  Even the unlaminated back of the cover is in GREAT condition with NO grubbyness, NO yellowing, NO rubbing, NO ringwear, nice flipbacks, and NO writing!!!!  The cover must grade Very Good (PROPERLY graded, NOT trashed!) if not better - and is still a very VERY decent cover indeed!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO LOCATE (ESPECIALLY IN MEGA RARE STEREO WITH AN ULTRA RARE 'MT' TAX CODING!) - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY!!!!

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