BEATLES PLEASE PLEASE ME..RARE 3rd MONO PRESS..SUPERB

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    BEATLES "PLEASE PLEASE ME"

ORIGINAL AND UNIQUELY RARE 1963 MONO UK 3RD PRESSING COMPLETE WITH NEMS SLEEVE AND NEMS SHOP BAG!!!!!!!!!!

RELEASED 22ND MARCH 1963 "PLEASE PLEASE ME" WAS THE BEATLES DEBUT UK ALBUM. AFTER SEVEN WEEKS IN THE CHARTS IT HIT NUMBER 1 ON MAY 8TH WHERE IT STAYED FOR A STAGGERING 29 WEEKS!!!!!!!!!..... THIS CLASSIC DEBUT ALBUM WAS TO PROPELL THE BEATLES TO HEIGHTS BEYOND THEIR WILDEST DREAMS AND THE REST AS THEY SAY IS HISTORY!!!!! 

3RD PRESSINGS OF THIS ALBUM ARE NOW BECOMMING VERY RARE AND HARD TO FIND.

WHEN FIRST RELEASED "PLEASE PLEASE ME" CARRIED THE NOW FAMOUS BLACK AND GOLD LABLES AND CAME HOUSED IN THE FIRST ISSUE SLEEVE WHICH IS NOW KNOWN AS THE "GOLD SLEEVE", THE "GOLD" SLEEVE CARRIES THE ANGUS MCBEAN CREDIT TO THE VERY FAR RIGHT ON THE FRONT. WHEN THE ALBUM WAS PRESSED FOR THE THIRD TIME AND THE LABELS CHANGED TO THE BLACK AND YELLOW VERSION THERE WHERE STILL SOME ORIGINAL "GOLD" SLEEVES THAT HAD BEEN UNUSED SO THESE SLEEVES WHERE ALLOCATED TO THE NEW THIRD PRESSING, ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER OF "GOLD" SLEEVES WHERE AVAILABLE IN THIS TRANSITION PERIOD SO ONLY THE VERY FIRST ISSUES OF THE THIRD PRESSING CAME HOUSED IN THIS SLEEVE.      

PMC 1202

XEX.421/3-1N-1N

STAMPERS   M O 2       A H   1

MT TAX CODE.

THE BLACK AND YELLOW PARLOPHONE LABELS TO BOTH SIDES ARE IN SUPERB CONDITION WITH NO UNWANTED MARKS OR WRITING. VIEWED UNDER A BRIGHT LIGHT THERE APPEARS TO BE JUST LIGHT BUT MINIMAL SPINDLE MARKS PRESENT !!!!!! LABELS ARE CLEAN, CRISP AND VERY VIVID. SIDE ONE HAS EMBOSSED MT TAX CODE...... LABELS DO NOT CARRY "SOLD IN UK" TEXT OR "RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED" TEXT... CORRECT FOR THIS 3RD PRESSING.

THE GLOSSY HEAVY WEIGHT VINYL IS AGAIN IN SUPERB CONDITION WITH JUST LIGHT BUT SUPERFICIAL SUFACE MARKS..NON ARE SEVERE AND VISUALLY THIS LOOKS VERY APPEALING.

SOUND QUALITY APPEARS TO BE FLAWLESS. RUN IN/OFF GROOVES ARE SILENT AS ARE TRACK GROOVES AND SOUND IS CLEAR AND CRISP.

THE ORIGINAL EMITEX INNER IS EXCELELNT WITH JUST LIGHT CREASING..IT IS INTACT AND STILL WHITE AND CRISP.

THE OUTER E.J. DAY "GOLD" LAMINATED SLEEVE IS EXCELLENT. TO THE FRONT IT DISPLAYS SOME LIGHT CREASES AND SOME EDGE AND CORNER WEAR, THE FRONT IS VERY SHINY AND CLEAN. THE REAR DOES SHOW SIGNS OF AGE AND HANDLING IN TEH FORM OF SOME MARKS AND SOME WEAR/CREASING TO SEAMS BUT THE SLEEVE IS INTACT AND THE REAR IS STILL QUITE CLEAN AND ALL WORDING IS READABLE. THE SPINE IS PERFECTLY RIGID..... SLEEVE CARRIES ANGUS MCBEAN CREDIT TO FAR RIGHT. 

ALL THIS COMES HOUSED IN ITS ORIGINAL AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE "NEMS" PLASTIC SLEEVE .... THE SLEEVE HAS SURVIVED REALLY WELL AND IT IS INTACT WITH NO SPLITS OR TEARS.

ALSO TO COMPLETE THIS UNIQUE ALBUM IS ITS ORIGINAL AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE "NEMS" SHOP BAG.... BACK IN THE 60'S ANY RECORDS BOUGHT FROM BRIAN EPSTEINS RECORD STORE IN LIVERPOOL WHERE ISSUED IN "NEMS" PLASTIC SLEEVES AND A "NEMS" PLASTIC BAG. BOTH SLEEVES AND BAGS WHERE EITHER DISCARDED OR DIDNT SURVIVE..... THIS BAG HAS SURVIVED AND HAS SURVIVED REALLY WELL.... THE BAG IS IN SUPERB CONDITION GIVEN ITS AGE.

OVERALL THIS REALLY IS A SUPERB EXAMPLE OF THIS VERY VERY RARE 3RD PRESS WHICH IS NOT ONLY ORIGINAL IN EVERY WAY BUT OFFERS FLAWLESS AUDIO, HAS VERY 1ST STAMPERS AND IS COMPLETE WITH BOTH ITS ORIGIANL "NEMS" SLEEVE AND "NEMS" SHOP BAG......A UNIQUE, ORIGINAL COLLECTION LIKE THIS SHOULD BE VIEWED MORE OF A WORK OF ART THAN SIMPLY A RECORD IN A BAG (IRREPLACABLE)..... THINK PICCASO OR DALI!!!!!!!!  

SHOULD YOU HAVE A RECORD LIKE THIS TO SELL THEN PLEASE DONT "STEAL" THIS WRITE-UP. WHILST WE DONT OBJECT TO ANYONE USING OUR WRITE-UPS FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES WE HAVE FINALLY LOST PATIENCE WITH PEOPLE "STEALING" THEM WORD FOR WORD AND USING THEM FOR THEIR BENEFIT... THIS IS AGAINST EBAY POLICY AND SHOULS WE BE MADE AWARE THAT ANY PART OF THIS TEXT HAS BEEN "STOLEN" WE WILL WITH OUT HESITATION REPORT THIS TO EBAY"....thank you