Beatles Help EMI Parlophone PCS 3071 YEX 1970s BBC Library
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Oct 7, 2025 Sold Date
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Description


Help! – The Beatles


Label & Catalog Number:


Parlophone – PCS 3071 (Stereo)


Matrix/Deadwax Numbers:

• Side 1: YEX 168-2

• Side 2: YEX 169-1


Pressing Details:

• Country: UK

• Label Style: Two-box EMI black/silver Parlophone label with “EMI” logo and perimeter rim text, indicating a post-1969 repress.

• Manufactured By: The Gramophone Company Ltd.

• Vinyl Format: 12” Stereo LP

• Recording First Published: 1965 (but this pressing is likely early 1970s due to label design and matrix numbers)


Condition & Notes:

• BBC Gramophone Library stickers present on sleeve and labels.

• Includes BBC Library requisition card and usage notations, a highly desirable collector feature.

• Light surface marks visible under light; likely VG to VG+ condition visually, assuming playback is clean.

• Side 2 includes handwritten note “Clicks B6”, which may refer to minor audio flaws on “Yesterday”.


Historical Context:


This stereo copy was likely pressed between 1971–1973, based on the -2/-1 matrix pairings and the black label with silver print and boxed EMI logo, used during this time. The BBC Gramophone Library provenance makes it a particularly unique artifact, as these were archival copies used for radio broadcast and internal reference.


Please understand that this is an official UK archival record from the British Broadcasting Corporation and the sleeve(s) may contain archival stickers from the BBC. Some of these stickers are 'on top' of the plastic with some 'underneath' (i.e. on the sleeve itself). Some sleeves have been 'laminated' either by way of 'punching' the plastic wallet to two parts of the sleeve or by fully wrapping the plastic to the sleeve. Where sleeves are laminated stickers can be removed with the use of appropriate sticker removal fluids however it is unlikely that stickers can be removed from any sleeves that are not laminated. The sleeves as such in this collection are generally graded as VG with the records often VG+ to Ex+.


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