PLEASE NOTE! I AM BASED IN MERRY ENGLAND! PLEASE LOOK AT MY OTHER RARE 1ST UK BEATLES PRESSINGS LISTED NOW ON EBAY.

 Another from my personal collection of Beatles albums collected over a period of more than 35 years! I have accumilated more than 1000 Beatles UK albums alone! This pressing is extreemly rare and sought after it has the earliest matrix stamped and is the earliest uncorrected version with the ''secret track'' ''her majesty'' on the labels!!!This has -1 -2 There wern't many of these pressed before the matrix was changed to -2 -3 known as 2nd pressings!!Please note! This is the original very thick and chunky slab type of vinyl only found on the earliest pressings! The other unique charactoristic is the earliest garrod & lofthouse fully laminated cover which features the ''missaligned'' apple logo at the rear  !! This can only be found on the earliest 1st issue, 1st UK pressings!! The audio is superbe throughout and boast of a rich deep basey feel that only can be heard on the earlist pressings! This is it! Audio grades at least excellent to excellent plus for side 1. and very near mint on side 2! The 1st issue rarest misaligned Garrod & Lofthouse cover is graded as excellent plus condition this is also complete with the original black Apple record sleeve! RARELY EVER SEEN IN THIS CONDITION!!UNBELEIVABLE 40 YEARS OLD 1ST ISSUE LIKE THIS!!.

Abbey Road is the eleventh official album released by The Beatles. Although its release preceded that of Let It Be, it was the last album to be recorded, and is therefore widely considered as the band's swan song. It was released on September26 1969 in the UK and October 1, 1969 in the US. It was produced and orchestrated by George Martin for Apple Records. Geoff Emerick was the engineer and Tony Banks, tape operator. It is considered one of the Beatles' most tightly constructed albums, although John Lennon dismissed the album in later years, possibly because its focal point — "The Long Medley" — was designed almost entirely by Paul McCartney!!!.

After the near-disastrous sessions for the proposed Get Back album (later retitled Let It Be) Paul McCartney suggested to George Martin the group get together and make an album "the way we used to" free of the conflict that began with the sessions for The White Album. Martin agreed, stipulating that he must be allowed to do the album his way. In their interviews for the Beatles Anthology series the surviving band members stated they knew at the time this would very likely be the final Beatles' product and therefore agreed to set aside their differences and 'go out on a high note'!!.

With the Let It Be album partly finished, the sessions for Abbey Road began in April, as the "Ballad of John and Yoko"/"Old Brown Shoe" single was completed. Most of the album was recorded between 2 July and 1 August 1969. After the album was finished and released, the Get Back/Let It Be project was re-examined. More work was done on the album, including the recording of additional music (see Let It Be). Thus, though the bulk of Let It Be was recorded prior to Abbey Road, the latter was released first, and Abbey Road properly was the last album started by The Beatles before they disbanded. In September 1969, just shortly before the release of the album, John Lennon was on hiatus from the group with the Plastic Ono Band, effectively being the first official sign of dissolution!!.

The two album sides are quite different in character. Side one is a collection of single tracks, while side two consists of a long suite of compositions, many of them being relatively short and segued together. The main impetus behind the suite approach was to incorporate the various short and incomplete Lennon and McCartney compositions the group had available into an effective part of the album!!.

THE MATRIX

 YEX 749-2 YEX 750-1 (EARLIEST FOR THIS PRESSING)

WITH VERY (VERY)EARLY MOTHER STAMPERS:(RAREST EVER CROSSED OUT\CORRECTED MOTHERS ON SIDE 1 LOOK!)!!!

THE MOTHER STAMPERS!          

SIDE 1. ''4 '' ;''HM'' (''MR'' CROSSED OUT)

SIDE 2.

''1'' ''GDO'' (MEGA EARLY)!!!!!!

THE VINYL

 ON INITIAL VISUAL INSPECTION THIS LOOKS AWESOME STILL RETAINING ITS ORIGINAL SHEEN FROM NEW AND GLEEMS LIKE NEW!!,, AND LAYS PERFECTLY FLAT ON THE TURNTABLE ONLY IN VERY STRONG LIGHT CAN POSSIBLY BE SEEN JUST TWO OR THREE VERY (VERY) FINE AND TINY LIGHT  SURFACE MARKS\SCRATCHES! IN FACT ONLY ON SIDE 1. JUST THESE HAVE VERY MINIMAL EFFECT ON THE ABSOLUTELY STUNNING TOP AUDIO THROUGHOUT!

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THE AUDIO QUALITY

I HAVE PLAYED THIS THROUGH TRACK FOR TRACK AT VERY LOUD VOLUME ON A TOP SYSTEM! THE AUDIO IS TRULY STUNNING THROUGHOUT,,CRISTAL CLEAR AND VIBRANT A REAL DEEP BASEY FEEL TO THE AUDIO (ONLY FOUND ON THE EARLIEST PRESSINGS). PLEASE NOTE, AMAIZINGLY  EVEN BETWEEN TRACKS OR THE RUN INS  BACKGROUND NOISE IS EXTREEMELY MINIMAL. IN FACT I NEVER HEARD ANY UNBELEIVABLE! TO BE HIGHLY CRITICAL ONLY DURING THE TRACK 'SOMETHING' COULD I HEAR VERY LIGHT STATIC SCUFF NOISE FOR APROX FOUR REVOLUTIONS AND AGAIN LATER IN THIS TRACK, BUT I MUST EMPHISISE THESE WERE NOT LOUD CLICKS OR POPS AND INM MY PERSONAL OPINION NOTHING THAT WOULD SPOIL THE OVERALL AWESOME AUDIO EXPERIANCE! IMPORTANTLY, I PLAY THESE ON A TOP SYSTEM AT VERY LOUD VOLUME AND IT IS POSSIBBLE THAT ON CERTAIN SYSTEMS PLAYED AT A LOWER LEVEL THAT ANY TICKS MAY NOT BE NOTICED AT ALL!! THERE ARE NO SIGNS OF GROOVEWARE OR THAT THIS HAS BEEN OVERPLAYED!,, IN FACT IN MY OPINION THIS HAS BARELY EVER BEEN PLAYED! 

SIDE 1. THE AUDIO MUST BE AT LEAST EXCELLENT TO EXCELLENT PLUS!

SIDE 2 THE AUDIO MUST BE AT LEAST EXCELLENT PLUS TO VERY NEAR PERFECT!!

PLEASE NOTE! I ALWAYS ADD THIS DISCLAIMER! PLEASE ALLOW FOR THE ODD LIGHT STATIC TICKS\SCUFF NOISES BUT (NOT) CONSISTANT THROUGHOUT THE AUDIO! PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THIS IS A GENUINE 40 YEAR OLD VINYL THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ORIGINALLY PLAYED ON A 40 YEAR OLD SYSTEM!! ALL INDICATIONS ARE THAT THIS VINYL HAS BARELY BEEN PLAYED IN MY OPINION TOP TOP AUDIO ON ALL FREQUENCIES!!!!!  

 AUDIO SUMERY (THIS WAS PLAYED THROUGH PRIOR TO LISTING ON A TOP SYSTEM AT VERY LOUD VOLUME! I HAVE GIVEN MY HONEST ACCOUNT ON THE AUDIO AS I HEAR IT! I WOULD CLASS MYSELF AS HIGHLY CRITICAL PLEASE LOOK AT MY COMPLETED LISTINGS OF RECORDS THAT I HAVE SOLD OF THIS CALABER AND YOU WILL SEE THAT I NORMALLY GET IT RIGHT!!

THIS AUDIO IS AWESOME PLAYS THROUGH CRISTAL CLEAR AND VIBRANT WITH MINIMAL INTERFEARANCE IN THE FORM OF VERY LIGHT STATIC TICKS IN VERY FEW QUIET PLACES (NO) LOUD CLICKS OR POPS AND NOTHING CONSISTANT THROUGHOUT THE AUDIO 

.THE LABELS

 ARE SUPERBE HAS NO SCUFFING (SEE PHOTO) !! THERE IS LITTLE IF NO SPINDLE WARE !!!!!!. MFD IN THE UK. IS FEATURED AND ''APPLE RECORDS ALL RIGHTS....''.......AROUND THE LABEL RIM.(ONLY ON EARLY PRESS)!!!AMAZINGLY I CAN ONLY SEE VERY VERY MINIMAL SIGNS OF  SPIDERING ON EACH SIDE THIS HASN'T BEEN OVERPLAYED NOR HARDLY EVER PLAYED AT ALL!!!! 

THE CREDIT FOR ''HER MAGESTY'' IS  (NOT)FEATURED  ON  THE LABEL ON SIDE 2. ( UNCORRECTED!! ONLY EARLIEST 1ST ISSUES\1ST PRESS) VERY RARE TO FIND ON THE EARLIEST MATRIX! THE MATRIX WAS SOON CORRECTED TO -2U -3U!!!!!!!!

THE ORIGINAL 1ST PRESS FULLY LAMINATED GARROD AND LOFTHOUSE COVER (MISSALIGNED LOGO)

THIS  IS FULLY LAMINATED (ONLY EARLY PRESS) .(SEE PHOTO)  THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE THERE VERY MINIMAL  CREASES TO THE LAMINATE TO TALK OF! .(SEE PHOTO) SUPER SUPER GLOSSY APPEARANCE INDEED THERE IS (NO) REAL STORAGEWARE TO TALK OF IN THE FORM OF SCUFFS OR RUBBING UNBELEIVABLE TO FIND LIKE THIS!!! VERY VERY LIGHT RINGWARE TO THE FRONT CAN BE SEEN AT THE FRONT IF YOU LOOK FOR IT ANGLED TO THE LIGHT ONLY VERY SLIGHT ONLY! (VERY RARE LIKE THIS) THIS IS STRONG AND STRAIGHT AS IT SHOULD BE) THE WRITING ''ABBEY ROAD THE BEATLES'' CAN CLEARLY BE SEEN ON  THE SPINE ALSO THE CREDIT FOR ''HER MAJESTY'' IS EMITED (ONLY EARLY PRESS) LATER PRESS FEATURES THIS CREDIT!!!!!!!! ABSOLUTELY SUPER GLOSSY ORIGINAL! THIS IS THE RAREST AND EARLIEST EVER TO FIND WITH THE MISSALIGNED APPLE LOGO AT THE REAR (ONLY FOUND ON THE EARLIEST 1ST PRESSINGS!! THIS MUST BE AT LEAST EXCELLENT PLUS!!AWESOME 40 YEAR OLD 1ST\EARLIEST  ISSUE!

THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL BLACK APPLE\EMI DIE CUT SLEEVE IS BECOMING FRAGILE WITH AGE WITH A TARE AT THE FRONT DIE CUT HOLE (SEE PHOTOS AND GENERAL CREASING WITH AGE  RARELY SEEN ORIGINALS!!(ONLY 1ST PRESS)!!

THIS RECORD WILL ALSO BE SUPPLIED WITH A CLEAR RECORD PROTECTOR ON DESPATCH!!!!!!!

OVERALL A GREAT COLLECTABLE RECORD FROM THE BEATLES.!!!!!!!! PLEASE DON'T UNDER ESTEMATE THE RARETY OF THIS ALBUM IN THIS CONDITION!!!AND AN EARLIST EVER  1ST UK PRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOW I SEND MY RECORDS!

THIS ALBUM WILL BE SENT IN A LARGE BOX WITH CARDBOARD STIFFENERS THE ALBUM IS ALWAYS PUT IS A POLY SLEEVE AND ENCASED IN THE BOX WITH PLENTY OF BUBBLEWRAP FOR ADDED PROTECTION (SEE PHOTOS)

As always I have tried to give my honest personal opinion when describing items listed! Although it is my honest opinion! I always urge others to do their own personal research on any items that they are interested in purchasing, before, they commit to bidding!) I have Highlighted all aspects as clearly as possible!! I have taken time to play this vinyl track for track to give a clear and accurate description of the audio quality as i hear it. (please look at my completed listings of albums that I have sold of this calaber (more than 1000 items) and you will see that I normally get it right) I have also provided as many photos as I can and supersized so that all aspects can be seen clearly in strong light!!!!!Please note! These photos are the actual item for sale and not copies of other items!!!!!!!

Please do not hesitate to email me with any questions regarding this item or any other items that I have listed!

I HAVE 100% POSITIVE FEEDBACK SO PLEASE BID WITH TOTAL CONFIDANCE!!!!

SHIPPING TO THE USA IS 10.76GBP INCLUDES INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR DELIVERY WITH INSURANCE AND TRACKING

SHIPPING TO EUROPE IS 7.76GBP INCLUDES INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR DELIVERY WITH INSURANCE AND TRACKING

POSTAGE WITHIN ENGLAND IS 3.90 SENT BY RECORDED DELIVERY

Please note! All items are now despatched by Royal Mail signed for 1st class delivery!!!! I normally despatch weekdays within the next working day on receipt of cleared funds!!!I POST ON WEEKDAYS ONLY (NOT OVER THE WEEKEND)!! Tracking details are always emailed to the winning bidder after despatch.

All items are despatched securely with ample reinforcement (It is my prime interest to make sure that the items arrive in the same condition that they left me!!!!

I offer a postage discount for multiple purchases!!!,, but i do insist that the buyer pay for the items as they are won! I can not any longer allow winning bidders to run up a large bill and then not pay! I do not have a problem with holding the goods to be despatched untill they are ready (at the buyers request), for multiple items purchased!!!!!

PLEASE LOOK AT MY OTHER RARE 1ST UK PRESSINGS LISTED NOW!!!! (click the link bellow)

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