The BEATLES LP PLEASE PLEASE ME mono BLACK & GOLD label

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Jun 21, 2009 Sold Date

Jun 11, 2009 Start Date

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The BEATLES PLEASE PLEASE ME on the Parlophone BLACK and GOLD labels. MONO PMC 1202. XEX 421-1N (1 GP) XEX 422- 1N (1 GM)

This copy is the second pressing with NORTHERN SONGS as the main song publishing credit instead of DICK JAMES (as on the first labels).
These tend to be rarer as soon after these copies were pressed Parlophone switched to the more modern BLACK and YELLOW label design.

The LABELS on this copy are fabulous, very clean, no stickers, writing, excessive spindle wear or other marks. Tax coding MT is embossed on side 2 label.

As side 1 played, I Saw Her Standing There, Misery, Anna. boomed out of the speakers in fantastic MONO sound with hardly any background noise, clicks pops or any other noise. Amazing for an LP now 46 years old! Track 4 Chains started in the same way then oops! a slight jump half way through! The rest of side 1, Boys, Ask Me Why and Please Please Me continue without any flaws or interruptions. I would rate side 1 as EXCELLENT were it not for the very slight jump on Chains, which is hardly noticeable but it’s there. A visual check of the vinyl confirms that this side has survived the years extremely well.

On side 2 I immediately noticed more marks on the vinyl including a nasty looking scratch just over 2/3 of the way in. Maybe something was once dropped on the record, anyway Love Me Do starts brightly and loudly. A few more clicks are apparent than on side 1 but nothing untoward. PS I Love You, plays fine as does Baby It’s You. So far so good! Do You Want To Know a Secret is next and touchwood it sounds very fine although a few clicks do creep through the audio. OK it’s getting to that scratchy part and I cross my fingers as A Taste of Honey starts. Ok I heard a few clicks but nothing to make me jump! There’s a Place gets under way (A great early Lennon composition BTW) and oh no! about 45 seconds in the needle just won’t go any further on. I wait a bit but it won’t budge and I have to get up and jog the needle over the offending part! The track finishes with no other problems or noises! Twist and Shout is going to be no problem even played very loud I heard nothing to upset the listener from twisting and shouting!
So 12 out of 14 tracks undoubtedly VERY GOOD to EXCELLENT! Just a second of Chains skips and there’s an annoying stick in There’s A Place.

The record has an excellent original EMITEX poly lined inner sleeve .

The cover does have some wear and tear on the back. It’s a genuine PPM cover for the Black & Gold records. The Angus McBean photo credit is at the extreme bottom right hand corner and it has the thicker card used in the early PPM covers. The front side is fine, with obvious wear and tear around the corners and edges but it’s clean, unripped and unwritten on! Turning the cover over shows that the top and bottom flipbacks have been sellotaped and it has a written name on the top and right at the bottom somebody has penned a stream of letters which luckily are quite small and discreet and don’t completely ruin it. There is also the common discolouration and grubbiness associated with 46 years of being handled and put down on surfaces. The spine is good and in one piece, with the wording on it still clear also the catalogue number of the record PMC 1202 (in the top right hand corner) has been defaced by what looks like a strip of sellotape which has taken off half of the top layer of text and numbers. Overall it’s a GOOD cover despite its faults.

So there it is PLEASE PLEASE ME, 1963, on the classic old fashioned Parlophone labels! However I will repeat. This record has one slight jump during CHAINS and sticks once during THERE’S A PLACE.

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