Beatles: Please Please Me 1/1 MOTHERS & RED label 1st 1963 & MPT tax 7" single

	£		163
	$		216

THE BEATLES
PLEASE PLEASE ME
1st PRESS
1GD / 1A
RED PARLOPHONE

(Professionally cleaned with a Pro-Ject VC-S MkII Vacuum Record Cleaner)

Here is the more difficult and harder to find BEATLES 1st number 1 (apart from the RR 2nd position)Please Please Me/Ask Me Why. The title song on the A side of this single was first aired in September of 1962. It was not untill the 26th of November of the same year, that the Beatles came together in Abbey Road to record the songs for their second EMI single...Please Please Me was put down in 18 takes and the Ask Me Why on side two, was put down in just 6 takes.  As a little note: Andy White recording of Please Please Me is on the LP rather than the single.

Release date was the 11th of January 1963.

Respective positions in the various charts in '63:

BBC: 1
Disc weekly: 1
Melody Maker: 1
New Musical Express: 1
New Record Mirror: 1
Record Retailer: 2

The details of this single up for auction:

Catalogue number: 45-R 4983
(as a note: the prefix of "45" from the catalogue number was removed after March 1963 as well as EMI dropping the red label for the more familiar black label..Some of these black labels still have the "45" as they were pressed at the same time as the red labeled versions).

Matrix numbers Side 1: 7XCE 17217-1N
Matrix numbers side 2: 7XCE 17218-1N

Mothers/Stampers Side 1: 1 GD
Mothers/Stampers Side 2: 1 A
**VERY 1st PRESSING**

Tax code in the run-off: MPT side 1 & MPT side 2.
A REAL TRANSITIONAL PRESSING HERE
(As a note: The 'PT' tax code was used up until the 26th of November 1962 and then changed to 'MT' from the 1st of January 1963...This 'MPT' tax code represents the transition between the two dates and two tax brackets)

Labels:
EX-.
The labels are in great condition. NO WRITING OF ANY SORT, ANYWHERE! Still deep red in colour.
 I can see just some very light spindle marks-hard to spot and a small spot of what could be nail varnish to side 1-but it is the same colour as the label..
"Dick James Music Co.LTD" at 9 O'clock on both sides.
It DOES NOT have the "Made In Great Britain" statement at 3 O'clock on either side.
This time their second EMI release has the "McCartney-Lennon" credits on both sides.
The label has "The Parlophone Co.Ltd..." in both upper and lower caps.
VERY DISPLAYABLE


Vinyl:
VG+.
I have just had the pleasure of listening to both sides of the single. There is barely any background noise!
Sounds great-lovely and clear.
NO WARPING AT ALL...FLAT, FLAT , FLAT.
Very light surface marks to both sides but nothing deep at all.


Sleeve:
EX.
 WAVEY-LINED PARLOPHONE period sleeve-inline with it's 1963 release. It has kept it's vibrant colour.
Small number to top of one corner..That's it.
 NO SPLITS OR TEARS!

Please see the detailed pictures.


ALL IN ALL THIS IS A TRUE COLLECTORS PIECE AND A WONDERFUL PIECE OF HISTORY FROM THE BEATLES
ONE OF THE VERY FIRST OFF THE PRESS, BACK IN 1963!
SOUNDS GREAT AND LOOKS GREAT.
ALL ORIGINAL TOO!

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