BEATLES multicoloured vinyl PAKISTAN 1960's
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Description
THE BEATLES
MULTICOLOURED VINYL 45
PAKISTAN
45R-5452
MATRIX = 7XCE-18380-TITI
7XCE-18381-TITIA
This 45 is extremly rare. The exact dates of release are lost in time its believed there were only 6 45's and 1 ep released in Pakistan in the 1960's they are on the Parlophone label and have the same catalogue numbers as in the U.K. These singles have been featured in Record Collector Magazine issue 308, March 2005, page 71 which states that a very small number of singles were pressed on multi-coloured vinyl. Name yer price?
Side one = She Loves You
Side two = I'LL Get You
The record has quite a few surface marks, but no major scratches. Ive played this vinyl and it has some surface noise at the beginning which dissapears as the vocals start. It has a four pronged centre which is firmly intact, on side b someone has wrote their name in black biro which is only visible in certain lights (because the label is black). On side a there is a sellotape mark on the label, which has been removed and has not taken any of the print away. The vinyl is black with multicoloured (what I can only describe as oil on water pattern) on both sides, obviously done in the manufacturing of the plastic. Really different and something I've never ever seen on any other record. If your a collector of Beatles or anything rare and unusual this is for YOU.
I found the information below out of the Beatles Worldwide II an anthology.
PAKISTAN
Until I began writing this book, I had always thought that no Beatles records had been released in Pakistan. and I was amazed to find out that at least 6 singles and 1 ep were indeed published here during the 1960's.
They appeared on Parlophone, with the same labels and the same catalogue numbers at in the UK. The main reason for these releases was that quite a lot of Britons still lived and worked in this country, and it was primarily they who bought the records.
After all, Pakistan was once part of India, which itself was a British colony until 1947. After India declared its independance,a civil war broke out and - bang- a new nation, Pakistan was born. Like India it became a member of the British Commonwealth and British Institutions like the BBC World Service and the EMI company, made sure these countries were supplied with everything 'British'.
Still the political situation in Pakistan was unstable and this is why no mor of the Beatles records were issued. After Parlophone had released four singles and 1 ep in 1964 it was all quite on the Beatles front. Apparently the company did not press more of them for the next two years because Pakistan and India were at war again.
Allegedly only two more single were issued, one in 1967 and one in 1968. As one might presume, original pressings from Pakistan are very rare and hard to get.
There you go what more can I say, you just don't find these records!!!
