45 THE BEATLES RARE ORIGINAL UK Apple test pressing
  £   620
  $   822

 


£ 620 Sold For
Apr 11, 2011 Sold Date
Apr 1, 2011 Start Date
£   6 Start price
19   Number Of Bids
  Great Britain Country Of Seller
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Description




  • 45 BEATLES "GET BACK / DON'T LET ME DOWN"
  • APPLE RECORDS, ultra rare British TEST PRESSING original issue!!!!
  • Genuine 100% original and a truly staggering find!!!
  • With green and white Apple paper labels with typed group and song titles
  • Matrix numbers: SIDE A: 7 XCE 21296 - 1U ///// SIDE B: 7XCE 21297 -1U
  • I recently aquired a collection of about 400-500 1960s British demos. The owner is a former radio station employee who worked in British radio in the 1960s. She was given hundreds of demo and promotional singles during her time. The collection included many very rare items including this one here. Beatles demos or test pressings rarely are offered for sale and this is a really fantastic and ultra rare collectors' item. Can you afford to miss this one?
  • Excellent condition (superb copy!)



Where 2 gradings are given grading is cover / record

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Re Reissue.
 Lbl Label.
 Cvr Cover.
 Woc/l Writing on cover/ label.
 Toc Tear on cover or sticker tear.
 CC Corner Cut.
 D/h Small drill hole.
 SOS Seam Split.
 G/F Gatefold.
 DJ DJ promo.
 W/l White label.
 S/w Cover in shrinkwrap.
 S/s Still sealed.

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On 03-Apr-11 at 21:12:28 BST, seller added the following information:

 ----I should mention that after playing the 45 once today (to check if this is the released version, which it is) I noticed that the paper label lifts slightly along its edge on the b-side (DON'T LET ME DOWN). This is probably due to the fact that the glue used 40+ years ago is not as strong as it was. The label is still affixed and pretty solid with no damage at all. You can just see that the colour underneath the labels is plain white. It is interesting to note, that under the paper label you can feel the push out centre intact! I have made further enquiries regaridng this item but cannot find another copy ever sold (on the internet anyway).

On 03-Apr-11 at 21:25:42 BST, seller added the following information:

 I also want to remind all bidders that this single came from the ORIGINAL OWNER (the Lady who worked for the radio station) who was given it as (I presume) as preview copy, possibly for air play.
I make this assumption because some of the other demo singles (NOT this Beatles one)  from this collection had letters with them asking the record to be played on the "radio programme" (that the lady worked on). So my assumption is that this test pressing is one that was intended for play (as an exclusive perhaps) before the single was available either as a demo (do demos exist?) or as an officially released single.

Apart from the 2 Beatles 45s, the collection has one further APPLE 45 demo (McCartney's ANOTHER DAY) and an APPLE PROMO LP by BADFINGER. So it appears that Apple's press department where not too good at getting regular copies to our lady. She had seemed to get more regular DEMO items from labels such as VERVE, MGM, COLUMBIA (lots of Cliff) but also PARLOPHONE. Maybe the Apple connection was not so good because Apple were fairly certain they would get airplay anyway. But that is for someone else to know!




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