NMint UPGRADE/ARCHIVE BEATLES Please Please Me RARE 1 BOX EMI UK LP PCS 3042

	£		83
	$		109

The BEATLES

PLEASE PLEASE ME

RARE

1 Box EMI

Heavy 139g Vinyl

*NEAR MINT condition throughout*

(It would be very hard to get a better copy)

*AN UPGRADE*

ALL ORIGINAL & COMPLETE

This was the very first official release, being released on the 22nd of March 1963 (MONO version) and later on the 26th of April 1963 (STEREO version). The Lp reached number one in; Disc Weekly, Melody Maker, New Musical Express and The Record Retailer in the UK. Only to be knocked off by their next album With The Beatles.

Amazingly the songs, which were taken from their first two singles and included a further ten songs, were all recorded in one marathon session at Abbey Road Studios. John wasn't feeling too well and got throught the 3 sessions in the one day by having milk, tea and Zubes lozenges....

The record I have for sale here:

Catalogue number: Parlophone PCS 3042

Matrix Number Side 1: YEX 94-1

Matrix Number Side 2: YEX 95-1

Mothers/Stampers Side 1: 2 @ 12 O'clock MP @ 6 O'clock

Mothers/Stampers Side 2: 1 @ 11 O'clock MG @ 5 O'clock

LOVELY AND EARLY HERE

This pressing is one of the very first 7th presses, making the transition from the Yellow Parlophone labels in 1969. The format wasn't liked with just the one EMI box and was quickly withdrawn, only to be re-released as the 8th press, but this time with the more common 2 box EMI label. Not many of these 1 box EMI labels made it through the net....and remain hard to find!

Vinyl:

NEAR MINT

139g

I have given her a gentle vacuum clean and popped her onto my deck..

I am just listening to the vinyl right now, turned right up....WOW....takes you right back to the magical 60's FAB!!! The Beatles in all their original glory.

There are only a couple of very light marks to the record ..I did not find them registering on playback...Side 2 doesn’t have ANYTHING visible in normal daylight at all!

I didn’t even find any significant background noise during playbackt-even the run-ins were as close to silent as you could get -without a time machine.

She plays fantastically well, the harmonies really shine out on Anna.

Wonderful deep bass with piercingly clean and clear highs...really is AN UPGRADE.

FLAT as the day she was born.

AS SHINY AS THE DAY SHE WAS BORN TOO

Labels:

NEAR MINT+

There’s NO central hole wear to speak of as seen in the pictures, with only ONE tiny (5mm) light spindle trail to each side, visible ONLY when angled to the light and REALLY trying to look for them. They really stand out nice wonderfully clean, with no writing or anything AT ALL to detract from it's gorgeousness.

Outer rim text starts with "The Gramophone Co.Ltd" with no "Recording First Published" text. The later labels had the outer rim text stating an "EMI recording..."

*Very, VERY displayable*

Cover:

NEAR MINT+

She really is in TOP-UPGRADEABLE condition!

*Even the top and bottom of the spine retains the original factory pinches*

Front laminated, with only a few small finger-lines of spidering to the edges...NO CRESCENTS of spidering!

It is a genuine Garrod and Lofthouse cover with the Angus McBean in the lower right corner on the front.

Rounded corner 3 flipbacks.

It is the more unusual cover-with the 3 flipbacks to the back but without the stereo to the top right corner.

THIS COVER HAS NOT BEEN SWAPPED OUT...IT IS ALL GENUINE!!!!

She would frame perfectly well.

STRONG, perfectly LEGIBLE spine.

The Inner:

NEAR MINT+

ORIGINAL SEPIA EMI advertising inner in FAB condition! A collectors piece in it's own right!

NO WRITING

NO SPLITS

Barely even any age discolouration to the paper.

*W-O-W*

A REAL COLLECTORS ITEM IN TOP-UPGRADEABLE CONDITION

NOT MANY OF THESE PRESSINGS WERE PRODUCED AND WERE ARGUABLY SIGNIFICANTLY LESS THAN THE BLACK AND GOLD LABEL!

(The Record Collector mag has an interesting article in their May 2012 edition)

*FREE TRACKED 48Hr UK POSTAGE*

(Maybe subject to VAT when sold within the EU)

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POSTAGE PRICES

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*ALL MY POSTAGE NOW INCLUDES TRACKING*

ALL MY PACKAGING IS RECYCLED AND RE-PURPOSED...MADE BESPOKE FOR EACH RECORD I SELL.

UPDATED PRICES FROM MARCH 2025.

**I WILL SEND WITHOUT INSURANCE/TRACKING BUT YOU NEED TO SEND ME IN WRITING YOU WANT THIS AND ARE HAPPY TO ACCEPT THE LIABILITY IF IT GOES MISSING**

OUR POST OFFICE IS BACK! SO I CAN USUALLY GET THE RECORD IN THE POST THE SAME DAY YOU BUY IT...AT THE LATEST THE FOLLOWING DAY :)

1 Lp UK: £FREE

1 Lp Europe up to 500g: £16 Tracked

I DO NOT POST TO RUSSIA OR BELARUS

1 Lp World Zone 1 (Everywhere else apart from Australia, NZ & USA) 500g: £19 Tracked

1 Lp World Zone 3 USA: £21 FOR TRACKED POSTAGE (thanks to the post office re-zoning USA to the most expensive on July 1st)

1 Lp Australia/NZ up to 500g: £25 Tracked

1 Double Lp UK: £FREE

1 Double Lp TRACKED to Europe up to 1kg: £18

Double Lp World Zone 1 (Everywhere else apart from USA, Australia & NZ) 1Kg: £25

Double Lp World Zone 3 TRACKED TO USA: £29 (thanks to the post office re-zoning USA to the most expensive on July 1st)..I HAVE SINCE FOUND OUT THE REASON FOR THIS IS THE INCREASE OF 'THE LAST MILE TARIFF' OF %100 BY USPS.

1 Double Lp TRACKED to Australia/NZ up to 1kg: £32

7" Singles:

1 Single UK: £FREE

1 Single Europe up to 250g: £12

I DO NOT POST TO RUSSIA OR BELARUS

1 Single World Zone 1 (Everywhere else apart from Australia, NZ & USA) 250g: £14

1 Single World Zone 2 Australia,NZ up to 250g: £17

1 Single World Zone 3 USA World Zone 3 up to 250g: £17

*ALL MY POSTAGE NOW INCLUDES TRACKING*

THANK YOU TO ALL, BUT PARTICULARLY TO MY RETURN BIDDERS

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