The Beatles "With The Beatles" PARLOPHONE PMC1206 MONO 4N/4N 3rd UK press 1963
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The Beatles ? "With The Beatles" Parlophone ? PMC 1206 Vinyl, LP, Mono, 3rd Pressing released in 1963.
The vinyl has one or two surface marks but these don't get in the way of this great LP, which still sounds fab! The G&L sleeve has a little lifting of the laminate to the front and someone appears to have tried to remove a name - also to the front. The rear of the sleeve has a small ink mark to the top, left-hand corner but is otherwise in great condition. The spine is intact and legible.
Black and yellow Parlophone label carrying "Dominion. Belinda" publishing credit on the label for the track "Money". Perimeter lettering beginning "The Parlophone...", "Recording First Published 1963" above left side-indicating cipher, "You Really Got A Hold On Me" evenly typeset on label, wide space between "Got" and "A" on sleeve. Wrap-around flipback sleeve, round cut corners
Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped): XEX 447-4N Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped): XEX 448-4N
"With the Beatles" is the Beatles second studio album. It was released on 22 November 1963, on Parlophone, and was recorded four months after the band's debut "Please Please Me". The album features eight original compositions (seven by Lennon–McCartney and "Don't Bother Me", George Harrison's first recorded solo composition and his first released on a Beatles album) and six covers (mostly of Motown, rock and roll, and R&B hits). The cover photograph was taken by the fashion photographer Robert Freeman, and it has been mimicked by several music groups over the years.
The LP had advance orders of a half million and sold another half million by September 1965, making it the second album to sell a million copies in the United Kingdom, after the soundtrack to the 1958 film South Pacific. With the Beatles remained at the top of the charts for 21 weeks, displacing Please Please Me, so that the Beatles occupied the top spot for 51 consecutive weeks. It even reached number 11 in the "singles charts" (because at the time UK charts counted all records sold, regardless of format).
The album was ranked number 420 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, and was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
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