THE BEATLES.REVOLVER.1966 MONO.RARE Y&B RIDGED LABEL

	£		62
	$		82

THE BEATLES 'REVOLVER' 1966 MONO LP.

Pressed in Great Britain and released on Parlophone PMC 7009.

Parlophone Yellow/Black Label.

"Sold in U.K...." statement; 'KT' tax code on the side 2 label; "THE GRAMOPHONE CO. LTD..." Rim text & P. 1966.

Matrix codes etc:

Side 1: XEX 605-2  4  L  T.      

Side 2: XEX 606-2   2 P.

Has the 'Dr. Robert' title spelling rather than the later 'Doctor Robert'. 

Looking at the photos you can see that this pressing has an indentation that runs around the outer edge of the labels about 10mm inside the edge. After researching this on the Internet I think that this not a [CBS?] contract pressing but IS in fact an EMI pressing that has been made with the one of their older pressing machines, those that were still in use at around the time that the Please Please Me Black & Gold pressings were released. It appears that some of the machines were recomissioned in 1966 to help cope with demand. This may have been done to avoid contracting out the pressing to other companies. It seems that only 'Revolver' & 'Rubber Soul' of 'The Beatles' releases were ever pressed like this. So I suppose that it makes them something of a rarity in their own right. If anyone knows differently please feel free to contact me.

Visually grades as VG/EX [see below].

When tilted under normal daylight there are quite a few thin, light surface scratches on side 1 between approximately 10 o'clock & 12 o'clock. Some of these are across the side and one runs into the dead wax & curves into track 6 at about 3 o'clock. In amongst these here are two smaller scratches that are responsive to the touch. Side 2 has only a couple of short, light surface marks.

Under strong halogen lights there are only a few more marks visible on either side.

There are quite a few spider lines around the spindle holes which are not visible in the photos.

Play grades as EX-/EX.

Despite the surface marks on side 1 it plays really well. There are no 'clicks' except for a few muffled ones right at the end of the last track on the side and also there are very few 'tics'.

  Front laminated Garrod & Lofthouse 3-flipback patents pending sleeve grades as EX.

Really nice example of this iconic sleeve.

Plain white paper inner sleeve grades as VG.

Has 'Patents Applied For' in the bottom left corner and 'Made In Great Britain' in the bottom right corner so probably the original but I can't be sure.

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