The Beatles Please Please Me U.K. STEREO Vinyl 63’ Vinyl 1G 4th Crossover Press
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1 P/1 G runouts!!! MT tax code present on side 2. 4th crossover press (some still consider this a 3rd pressing) w/2nd print sleeve! The rarest variation of all “P.P.M.” Stereo versions! She’s a beautiful player (close enough to an “Audiophile’s” dream, with little bits of surface noise between some tracks, & one small tic during the tail end of “Anna...”). She has only a few light marks from being handled—gorgeous vinyl (visually EX condition with some marks to the labels). (Polythene-lined) “Emitex” inner is very nice w/no repairs—unbelievably well preserved. The sleeve shows minimal wear, & is as close as you can get to a near fine example (right on the line of VG+/NM). Only a few hundred of these “4th” crossover pressings exist—made during a very quick center-label layout transition, before 1964. It will indeed be difficult to secure a better example....for this is almost an ultimate copy.
4th pressing on the yellow/black Parlophone label. Following the yellow/black label “3rd pressing” (with the redundant small “33 & 1/3rd“ text—which was removed from the 4th pressing), and in between the fifth pressing (which features the “Recording First Published 1963” text on both sides of the record). The true 4th pressing’s label is with no small 33 & 1/3 text, and omits the “Recording First Published 1963” & the “Sold In The UK...” banner on both sides of the record. This 4th “crossover pressing” features “Recording First Published 1963” only on side 1.
*NOTE* The Sleeve for this issue has the large STEREO text—not the later 1964 medium and smaller text. The 4th pressing for this album can be found in either the original 1st print “Gold & Black” sleeve, or the 2nd print adjusted “Angus McBean” sleeve.
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