BEATLES 1969 RARE MONO UK Parlophone LP - Rubber Soul - NO SOLD IN UK STATEMENT
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Rubber Soul
Mega Rare 1969 MONO Press!!
Yellow / Black Parlophone WITHOUT 'Sold in the UK' Statement!!
.,.. Catalogue Number Label Year of Release PMC 1267 Yellow / Black Parlophone 1969 Sleeve Format Tax Code on Disc Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Mono - Side 1 Side 2 Track Listing Track Listing 1. Drive My Car
2. Norwegian Wood
3. You Won't See Me
4. Nowhere Man
5. Think For Yourself
6. The Word
7. Michelle 1. What Goes On
2. Girl
3. I'm Looking Through You
4. In My Life
5. Wait
6. If I Needed Someone
7. Run For Your Life Matrix Number Matrix Number XEX 579-5 XEX 580-5 Stamper Code Stamper Code 1 / HL 3 / HA About the Record
This auction is for a very rare 1969 MONO press of the Beatles LP 'Rubber Soul'!
This is the 1969 press that features the old yellow / black label design but omits the 'Sold in the UK' statement! These are incredibly rare and hardly ever turn up for sale!
In mid 1969 the tax laws that required UK domestic presses to feature the 'Sold in the UK...' statement since 1964 were changed, and so this text on the label was removed. This happened literally just a couple of months before Parlophone adopted the EMI 'one box' silver / black label design that the other EMI labels were beginning to use. By the time this was happening the fans were buying albums like Abbey Road and Let It Be and the earlier albums were barely selling at all.
Not only that, but this is the even more rare MONO pressing! By 1969 mono was a completely dead, obsolete format and everybody was buying stereo. Parlophone only produced a tiny, tiny amount of mono copies with this label variation before the format was pulled.
So we have a label variation that was only available for a couple of months in a format that nobody wanted at a time when nobody was really buying the album. It's because of this that, today, this variation is incredibly hard to find!
This would look great in any Beatles collection!
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The cover is showing some light, general wear and tear but overall is holding up nicely. The front is clean with some little laminate creases around the edges and mouth. There's a small, approx. 1cm long tear just under Ringo on the front at the mouth. Top seam has a couple of tiny little knocks but is holding tightly with no wear or splitting. Bottom seam is looking fine with no wear or splitting. The spine has a couple of little laminate creases including one that runs through the E in 'Rubber', but the rest of the spine is fully legible and there's no splitting. The bacm has yellowed a little and there's a light stain at the top left. There's a little disc impression rubbing and some creases in the overflap laminates. But this is pretty minor and, overall, the cover is looking nice! Disc (Visually Graded Only!!) : VG+
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The playing surface has a lovely shine to it and has some scuffing. There's a slightly heavier looking scuff on side 1 at the 7 o'clock position that's unfeelable under the fingernail.
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The labels are clean with bright text. Both labels have some light spindlewear - a little moreso on side 1 and a touch of whitening around the centrehole. Nice labels!
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All records have been visually graded under a strong, 125W natural light desk lamp.
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