The Beatles - PLEASE PLEASE ME - Parlophone PMC 1202 Mono (1963)
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Description
This was my first ever record, bought in 1963. I love this record but I have emigrated and want to find it a home where it will be appreciated and played.
Photo is of actual cover, which has a small scuff on one corner, contains original inner sleeve, no major defects in either.
Part of my collection that has been stored in cool conditions throughout, and will need a good clean before you play it. Record will be dispatched in a Vinyl LP Record Box Mailer, corrugated and strong, to prevent damage.
This record is graded with the Vinyl Factory grading system:
Very Good (VG) – It’s seen a bit of life, but is still usable. Light pops and clicks, an edge split, light visible scratches. You can still listen to it and enjoy looking at it, but it is visually and audibly USED.
Please Please Me is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Produced by George Martin, it was released on EMI's Parlophone label on 22 March 1963 in the United Kingdom, following the success of the band's singles "Please Please Me" and "Love Me Do", which reached number 1 on the NME and Melody Maker charts and number 17 on the UK Singles Chart, respectively. The album topped Record Retailer's LP chart for 30 weeks, an unprecedented achievement for a pop album at that time.Nationwide interest in the Beatles had been piqued with the success of their second UK single and Parlophone, hoping to take advantage of this, promptly decided to follow it up with an album. Consequently, their record producer, George Martin, urgently needed ten more tracks if he was to include the four sides ("Love Me Do" / "P.S. I Love You" and "Please Please Me" / "Ask Me Why") of the group's first two singles: "I asked them what they had which we could record quickly, and the answer was their stage act," Martin said (the norm for British 12? vinyl pop albums in 1963 was to have seven songs on each side whereas American albums usually had five or six songs per side). Having established that the Cavern Club was unsuitable for live recording purposes, they booked a session at EMI Studios in London and recorded live there instead. Martin said, "It was a straightforward performance of their stage repertoire – a broadcast, more or less."Initially, a morning and afternoon session only were booked; the evening session was added later.
Tracklist
A1 I Saw Her Standing There 2:50 A2 Misery 1:44 A3 Anna (Go To Him) 2:52 A4 Chains 2:20 A5 Boys 2:20 A6 Ask Me Why 2:20 A7 Please Please Me 1:58 B1 Love Me Do 2:15 B2 P.S. I Love You 2:00 B3 Baby It's You 2:29 B4 Do You Want To Know A Secret 1:52 B5 A Taste Of Honey 1:59 B6 There's A Place 1:46 B7 Twist And Shout 2:30
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