LP BEATLES "PLEASE PLEASE ME" Mono 1st edition 1963

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PARLOPHONE LP PMC 1202  (MONO)

(1963):

THE BEATLES

"Please Please Me"

English EMI cut (-1N/-1N)

------UK first edition------- 

Correct period inner sleeve in fine condition.

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Amazon review (edited)

While neither their best-selling nor most critically celebrated album, “Please Please Me” marks a vital moment in the career of The Beatles. Their debut album set in motion the wheels that would carry them to the very peak of public recognition, and subsequently into realms of sonic experimentation that would create a template for so much rock and pop music since.

Producer George Martin was, in Paul McCartney’s words, unsure of the band’s musical abilities when he invited them to Abbey Road to record songs they’d spent months perfecting live. In that environment they regularly shined, but studio experiences were still comparatively alien.

What Martin recognised was a focus, a desire for more than their present lot. He listened beyond the music of the moment, hearing a future that these four young men would shape for themselves. The self-contained pop group was born, and quicker than either band or producer envisioned.

The recording of “Please Please Me” was fast, the band committing ten of these tracks to tape in just a single day – “a straightforward performance of their stage repertoire,” was how Martin summarised the sessions. Previously released single tracks and b sides completed the set.

Featuring more originals than not, “Please Please Me” saw the McCartney-Lennon songwriting partnership blossom – from the title track to Love Me Do, There’s a Place to I Saw Her Standing There, the collaboration was incredibly productive, and would continue to bear fruit until the group’s “Let It Be” swan song of 1970.

The immediacy that these songs carry remains irresistible, and “Please Please Me”’s lengthy reign at the top of the UK albums chart proved the perfect response to Decca’s rebuttal that guitar groups were “on the way out” when the label turned down the opportunity to sign the band.

Lennon’s vocal on the climactic Twist and Shout is perhaps the most wonderfully loose, ragged-edged element of the entire record, and the essentially ‘as live’ recording showcases a group with their feet still very much in the clubs and theatres, performance just preceding actual arrangement. Their way with composition is relatively simple: effective, but black and white nonetheless, playing exclusively to recognised strengths.

What followed made The Beatles the inspirational band they’re regarded as today. But the grandest oak begins as the tiniest acorn, and “Please Please Me” is just that: perfectly formed for what it is, and ready to split when promise is realised.

TRACKS:

 1. I Saw Her Standing There

2. Misery

3. Anna (Go To Him)

4. Chains

5. Boys

6. Ask Me Why

7. Please Please Me

8. Love Me Do

9. PS I Love You

10. Baby It's You

11. Do You Want To Know A Secret

12. Taste Of Honey, A

13. There's A Place

14. Twist And Shout

CONDITION:

Disc:

There are a few marks on each side. Looked at in direct strong sunlight, it is clear that there are a few "bruises" to each side, that is: lines which look bad, like real audible scratches but are in fact just harmless surface marks.

There are also afew hairlines to each side, but not as many as you might expect.

The surfaces are in remarkably good condition and the disc has clearly been sleeved for most of its life. The disc surfaces are not seriously worn, nor grossly scuffed or mistreated.

The central hole is in good condition and there are no real spindle lines around it.

Despite its age and the fact that most Beatles LPs from this period are usually completely knackered, this one is in remarkably good shape. 

(Fully guaranteed remember: If you buy it and decide it's not OK by your standards, then return it for a refund)

Sleeve :

Slight crease to upper front left corner area.

Slight wear to all four corners

Rear has the name of the previous owner in ink near the top.

The un-glazed rear surface has quite a lot of brown discolouration spots and looks a bit scruffy.

The front glaze is completely intact and shows only slight signs of handling. No upper edge seam splits.

1 very tiny break to the glazing along the bottom edge.

Open edges fine

Overall, a good 7 out of 10 for the front and edges, 

6 out of 10 for the rear

POSTAGE

(A NOTE ABOUT UK POSTAGE)
I use a strong purpose made mailing envelope to send LPs.
These cost about £0.40p each.
I remove the disc from its sleeve to avoid seam splits resulting from movement in the post.

I pack the disc in a poly liner and then insert two stiff cardboard squares to stiffen the package to avoid damage in the post.
The package now costs £2.51p to post within the UK.
Add in the 40p for the mailing envelope and you will see that 9 pence is left over for my time and a certain amount of parcel tape!

UK: £3

EU: £5

US:  £6

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