NOT ONLY A SUPERB 2 BOX EMI STEREO COPY BUT ALSO A RARE PATHE MARCONI CONTRACT PRESSED FOR THE UK MARKET AND SOLD IN UK SLEEVES   L@@K

 DUE TO CAPACITY ISSUES AT HAYES EMI OUT SOURCED SOME OF VINYL OF THEIR BACK CATALOUGE, INCLUDING THE BEATLES, DEEP PURPLE PINK FLOYD & SOME OTHERS, FROM DIVERSE PLACES SUCH GERMANY & EVEN THE U.S.A TO BE MARRIED UP AT HAYES WITH UK SLEEVES FOR SALE IN UK STORES. THE BEATLES BACK CAT WENT TO PATHE MARCONI IN FRANCE FROM 1973-4 & THESE ARE FAMED FOR THEIR REPRODUCTION QUALITIES AT A TIME WHEN U.K. VINYL QUALITY WAS SUFFEREING BADLY INITIALLY AS A RESULT OF THE OIL CRISIS, FROM WHICH IT WOULD NEVER FULLY RECOVER. AS TO WHY THE FRENCH WERE DID NOT HAVE THE SAME QUALITY ISSUES AS THE U.K. HAS YET TO BE FULLY EXPLAINED TO MY KNOWLEDGE 

 For OFFER here is the UK LP ''  WITH THE BEATLES " 

ARTIST:  THE BEATLES

MONO/STEREO: STEREO

Cat. No : PCS 3045  

LABEL: PARLOPHONE  

COUNTRY: UK

DATE: 1963 THIS COPY C1974 

MATRICES:-2-3

 TRACK LISTING SEE PIC ABOVE

VINYL WEIGHT: 135g

THE CONDITION

SLEEVE:   LOVELY LAMINATE SHEEN & FABULOUSLY CLEAN REAR JUST THE ODD CREASE GRADE EX EASY

VINYL VISUAL : STILL RETAINS ALL ITS SHEEN, BARELY EVEN MANY LIGHT HAIRLINES VISIBLE EVEN UNDER A BRIGHT HALOGEN LAMP GRADES  NEAR TO MINT VISUALLY. A PLAY CHECK ON MY DECK CAN BE REQUESTED.

LABELS: MINOR EVIDENCE OF PLAY ONLY GRADE EX

AN SUPERB  EXAMPLE OF A HIGH QUALITY MID 70S PATHE MARCONI PRESSING ( AS AN ASIDE THE FIRST BEATLES LP I PERSONALLY BOUGHT WAS ONE OF THESE, IN JANUARY 1974 FROM GUY NORRIS IN BARKING EAST LONDON, THE SAME STORE BILLY BRAGG WAS WORKING IN AT THE TIME )