**SEALED CAPITOL PROMO** MEGA THE BEATLES STORY STAMPED: NOT FOR SALE

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**SEALED CAPITOL RECORDS PROMO** PRISTINE AND MEGA ULTRA RARE 'THE BEATLES STORY' STAMPED BY CAPITOL: NOT FOR SALE #441439
I believe this is one of the finest copies known for sale anywhere !!

In order for Capitol Records to gold foil stamp this rare treasure, they professionally and precisely removed a small section of shrink, top right, in order to place the promotional stamp onto the cover with it's corresponding Capitol Records serial number 441439.

The rare promo stamp reads:
"Property of Capitol Records Inc. This record is on loan for 'PROFESSIONAL USES ONLY'..Holder agrees to return it on demand. Attempted sales are void and in violation of the law" No. 4411439
It's commonly assumed these Capitol Promo records were sent to exclusively to company executives


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Recorded:   Capitol Records Building and The Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, California

Released:    November 23rd, 1964

Catalog #:    STBO 2222

The Beatles' Story is the sixth album by the Beatles in the United States, issued on 23 November 1964 by Capitol Records in both mono and stereo formats (although the mono was merely a fold-down of the stereo mix). It is a documentary double album featuring interviews, press conferences, and song snippets with voice-overs, and was issued in response to interviews of the Beatles collected on the Vee-Jay Records release, Hear The Beatles Tell All. Originally, Capitol Records intended to release the group's 1964 performance at the Hollywood Bowl, but due to a lack of advanced studio technology and the excessive amount of loud screaming fans on tape the album was shelved. Another plan was to release a 'Greatest Hits' album for the Christmas market. Four songs we set to debut on the record: 'A Hard Day's Night', 'Misery', 'There's a Place', and 'From Me to You'. Again, plans were scrapped for release. This promo release was issued in 1978.

The album entered the Billboard Pop Albums on 12 December at number 97, and on 2 January 1965 it reached its peak position at number seven, where it remained for four weeks before beginning its slide down the charts.[1] It has been certified a gold record by the RIAA; it was also released in Canada and is currently out of print. It was released by Toshiba EMI in Japan on the Apple label (in stereo) in a box set with a deluxe 24 page 12"x12" booklet that contains the entire text of the script in English and Japanese.

The album contains brief stereo excerpts of their 1964 Hollywood Bowl concert, which was unreleased until May 1977 on The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl. Never released in any tape format, The Beatles' Story was being prepared for release on digital audio tape in 1996, but when the format failed commercially the plan was scrapped. In 2014, The Beatles Story was released on CD for the first time in the Beatles boxed set, The U.S. Albums.

The Beatles’ Story was essentially an attempt to capitalize on public demand for The Beatles. Although it sold more modestly than their other Capitol releases, in its first week of release it was certified gold, signifying sales of more than one million.

The album contained a 48-second extract of 'Twist And Shout', recorded on August 23, 1964 at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles. It was the only part of the recording made commercially available until 'The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl' was issued in May 1977.

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There are no returns on sealed records that you have opened or unsealed. The value here is that it is sealed, never opened or played

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• Manufactured By – Apple Records, Inc.
• Pressed By – Capitol Records
• Mastered At – Capitol Mastering

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Label A): STBO 1-2222
• Matrix / Runout (Label B): STBO 2-2222
• Matrix / Runout (Label C): STBO 3-2222
• Matrix / Runout (Label D): STBO 4-2222
• Matrix / Runout (Runout A etched): 1-2222-A5 2 *
• Matrix / Runout (Runout B etched): STBO-2-2222-G-8 1(SIDEWAYS) *
• Matrix / Runout (Runout C etched): STBO-3-2222-G-8 1 *
• Matrix / Runout (Runout D etched): STBO-4-2222-H-9 1 *
• Matrix / Runout (Stamped in runouts B, C & D): MASTERED BY CAPITOL