NOT ONLY A SUPER PATHE MARCONI CONTRACT PRESS BUT ALSO AN EXTREMEMLY RARE TRACK " BANDED " COPY FOR SIDE ONE & which THE FIRST " SCHUMM " SEEMS TO FADE INTO COME TOGETHER  AS MENTIONED IN THE " BEATLES MIXES " BOOK BY Holger Schoeler and Thorsten Schmidt ( SEE PIC ) !

( IT SHOULD BE SAID THAT NOT ALL BANDED PRESSINGS WERE MISCUT BUT SO FAR ALL MISCUT PRESSINGS SEEM TO BE BANDED )

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 ''  ABBEY ROAD  " 

ARTIST:  THE BEATLES

MONO/STEREO: STEREO

Cat. No :    PCS 7088

LABEL: APPLE/ PARLOPHONE / EMI

COUNTRY: UK / FRANCE

DATE: 1969 THIS COPY C 1974

TRACK LISTING : SEE SLEEVE/LABELS PIC ABOVE

MATRICES:       PATHES

CONDITION :-

VINYL VISUAL :  JUST LIKE SOME PATHE CONTRACT BANDED SGT. PEPPER'S A FEW OF THESE WERE PRESSED WITH TRACK BANDING  . BOTH SIDES STILL RETAIN ALL THEIR FIRST PRESS SHEEN BARELY EVEN THE ODD LIGHT HAIRLINES UNDER A BRIGHT HALOGEN LAMP GRADES EX VISUALLY  , PLAY WAS ALSO EXCELLENT ON MY DECK BUT  WITH SOME BACKGROUND SO A PROPER CLEAN IS RECOMENDED.