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The Beatles: A black/gold label stereo pressing of the album 'Please Please Me',
Parlophone PCS 3042, Type 1 cover printed by E. J. Day & Co. Ltd. with Angus McBean front cover photo credit aligned with second 's' of 'songs', spine uncrushed/undamaged with all text clearly legible, original inner sleeve with 'Use Emitex...' text, Dick James Mus. Co. publishing credits to labels, Side 1 centre with MZT tax code, matrix no. YEX 94-1, 'mother' no. 1 and stamper code R, Side 2 with matrix no. YEX 95-1, 'mother' no. 1 and stamper code G
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A month after their single 'Please Please Me' was released, on 11th February 1963 the Beatles went into Abbey Road Studios to record ten of the fourteen tracks that would make up their debut album of the same name. The other four tracks were already recorded, making up their first two singles on Parlophone. Three sessions on that day, between 10am and 10.45pm, produced those ten tracks and, as Mark Lewisohn comments, 'There can scarcely have been 585 more productive minutes in the history of recorded music.' The album was released in the UK on 22nd March, where it subsequently held the No.1 album chart spot for 30 consecutive weeks, finally being knocked off by the Beatles' follow-up album, 'With The Beatles', released on 22nd November that year. The matrix/mother/stamper combination on this pressing seems scarcer than those usually seen on first pressings.
Literature: Record Collector, Issue 401 (May 2012), pp. 74-80 for an in-depth article on this LP by Nick Farmer.
The Complete Beatles Chronicle, Mark Lewisohn (Pyramid Books, 1992).





















