BEATLES "WHITE ALBUM" UK APPLE MONO...NO EMI...0025439

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                                                      BEATLES "WHITE ALBUM"

ORIGINAL 1968 UK MONO 1ST PRESSING....EXTREMLEY LOW NUMBERED TOP OPENER, NO EMI LABELS COMPLETE WITH POSTER, PHOTOS AND  BLACK INNERS.

 RELEASED NOVEMBER 22ND 1968 "THE BEATLES" WAS THE BEATLES FIRST DOUBLE ALBUM RELEASE AND THEIR FIRST ALBUM RELEASE ON THE APPLE LABEL. ONE WEEK AFTER ITS RELEASE IN THE U.K IT HIT NUMBER 1 WERE IT STAYED FOR NINE WEEKS IT WAS ALSO THE FIRST EVER DOUBLE ALBUM TO GET TO NUMBER 1 IN THE U.K.

THE ALBUM WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO BE CALLED "A DOLLS HOUSE" WITH ARTWORK TO INCLUDE A TRANSPARENT COVER AS WELL AS CLEAR VINYL DISCS. ALSO THERE WAS TO BE A PROMOTIONAL ADVERT ON T.V BUT EVENTUALLY THIS WAS ALL SCRAPPED DUE TO THE OVERALL COST.

THE IDEA OF THE TOTALLY WHITE SLEEVE WAS SUGGESTED TO THE BEATLES BY AN ARTIST CALLED RICHARD HAMILTON, HE SUGGESTED THAT RATHER THAN ADDING TO THE NUMBER OF GARISH SLEEVES ALREADY IN EXISTANCE AT THAT TIME THAT THEY SHOULD MAKE THE COVER LOOK DISTINCTIVE BY PUTTING NOTHING ON IT AT ALL EXCEPT THE TITLE "THE BEATLES" AND TO GIVE EACH ISSUE ITS OWN NUMBER. ALSO THE SLEEVE WAS GIVEN ITS OPENINGS AT THE TOP INSTEAD OF THE SIDE, AGAIN ANOTHER FIRST FOR ITS TIME.

ALL VERY FIRST ISSUES OF THE WHITE ALBUM WHERE TOP OPENING, GARROD AND LOFTHOUSE GATEFOLD SLEEVES WITH  BLACK INNERS,POSTER AND FOUR COLOUR PRINTS. VINYL HAD DARK GREEN LABELS, WITH A SMALL CIRCLED "P" NEXT TO THE DATE (SEE PICTURES) AND SOLD IN THE U.K TEXT,SOME CARRIED "AN EMI RECORDING" TEXT AND SOME DIDNT. ALSO ALL HARRISON AND STARR COMPOSITIONS WHERE CREDITED TO APPLE, THIS LATER CHANGED TO "HARRISONGS" AND "STARTLING MUSIC".... THIS ALBUM CARRIES ALL THESE FEATURES.

OFFERED FOR SALE IS AN EXTREMLEY LOW NUMBERED IST MONO ISSUE OF THIS HIGHLY SOUGHTAFTER ALBUM. THIS TRUE GEM OFFERS EARLY STAMPERS, IST ISSUE LABELS AND IS HOUSED IN ITS VERY VERY IST ISSUE WIDE SPINE GATEFOLD SLEEVE WHICH FEATURES THE EXTREMLEY RARE AND LOW NUMBER..... 0025439....... WITHOUT DOUBT A FIRST DAY ISSUE!!!!!!  

APPLE PMC 7067

XEX709/10/11/12-1-1-1-1

STAMPERS    GRT1   ODG2  PR1 TD2 

NO TAX CODE

DISC 1

THE DARK GREEN APPLE LABLES TO BOTH SIDES ARE IN SUPERB CONDITION WITH NO UNWANTED MARKS OR WRITING. VIEWED UNDER A BRIGHT LIGHT THERE APPEARS TO BE JUST LIGHT SPINDLE MARKS PRESENT TO EITHER SIDE!!!!!!!. (THESE REALLY ARE MINIMAL) LABELS ARE VERY VERY CLEAN AND RETAIN THEIR ORIGINAL LUSTRE.... LABELS DO NOT FEATURE "AN EMI RECORDING" TEXT 

THE GLOSSY VINYL HAS CLEALRY RECIEVED JUST A LIMITED NUMBER OF CAREFUL PLAYS AND THIS IS REFLECTED IN ITS STUNNING APPEARANCE. THE VINYL DISPLAYS JUST VERY VERY LIGHT BUT SUPERFICIAL SURFACE MARKS, THERE IS ONE VISIBLE NEEDLE MARK TO SIDE 3 BUT I MUST STRESS THAT THIS IN NO WAY INTERFERES WITH THE AUDIO. THE BRIGHT VINYL LIES PERFECTLY FLAT WITH NO WARPING AND THERE IS NO NEEDLE LIFT WHEN PLAYED. THE VINYL HAS SUFFERED NO DULLING TO ITS ORIGINAL SHINY SURFACE.

AUDIO IS FLAWLESS...ONE CAREFUL PLAY BY MYSELF REVEALS AN UNITERRUPTED, CLEAR AND CRISP MONO SOUND. THERE IS ABSOLUTLEY NO POPS, SKIPS OR JUMPS EVIDENT. BOTH DISCS PLAY WIT AN UNRIVALED CLEARITY AND SHARPNESS...... THIS WAS A TRUE JOY TO LISTEN TOO!!!!       

DISC 2

THE APPLE LABELS TO BOTH SIDES ARE AGAIN AS DISC ONE.

THE GLOSSY VINYL IS AS GOOD AS DISC ONE.

AUDIO IS AGAIN AS DISC ONE

COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL BLACK INNERS. THE INNERS ARE IN SUPERB CONDITION.... THEY ARE INTACT WITH JUST  LIGHT CREASES AND SOME LIGHT WEAR TO OPENING EDGES,THE INNERS ARE FREE FROM ANY  REPAIRS AND ARE STILL REALLY CRISP.

THE ORIGINAL FACRORY FOLDED POSTER IS SUPERB.THIS IS THE FIRST ISSUE POSTER WHICH FEATURES THE "LIPSTICK" KISS (LATER ISSUES DONT HAVE THIS). THE POSTER HAS JUST LIGHT BUT EXPECTED SIGNS OF HANDLING AND DOES HAVE ONE VERY TINY SPLIT TO EDGE OF ONE FOLD CREASE .THE POSTER IS HOWEVER VERY CLEAN AND IS TOTALLY INTACT AND HAS NEVER BEEN DISPLAYED. 

THE ORIGINAL FOUR PHOTOS ARE PRESENT AND ARE IN SUPERB CONDITION. 

THE GATEFOLD LAMINATED "GARROD AND LOFTHOUSE" EXTREMLEY LOW NUMBERED, WIDE SPINE SLEEVE IS SUPERB. IT IS VERY CLEAN AND STILL GLOSSY AND STILL EXCEPTIONALLY WHITE. IT DISPLAYS A HINT OF "BROWNING" TO THE EDGES. THE SLEEVE IS INTACT AND ALL SEAMS LIE FLAT, THE SLEEVE HAS A SMALL AMOUNT OF CREASING AND SOME LIGHT BUT MINOR RINGWEAR VISIBLE.. THE OPENING EDGES DISPLAY VERY LITTLE SIGNS OF  WEAR. THE WIDE SPINE IS  RIDGID AND INTACT WITH NO CREASING AND AGAIN JUST A HINT OF WEAR. BOTH "THE BEATLES" LOGO AND THE NUMBER 0025439 ARE STILL HIGHLY VISIBLE.

OVERALL THIS REALLY IS A SUPERB AND BARELY PLAYED EXAMPLE OF THIS UK APPLE MONO ABSOLUTE 1ST PRESSING WHICH OFFERS STUNNING VINYL AND LABELS, IS COMPLETE WITH ITS CORRECT INNERS, FOUR PHOTOS, POSTER AND IS HOUSED IN A SUPERB WIDE SPINE AND EXTREMLEY LOW NUMBERED SLEEVE. 

THIS IS A RARE AND UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO AQUIRE AN ABSOLUTE 1ST MONO ISSUE NUMBERED BELOW 30,000.... THESE LOW NUMBERED ALBUMS DO NOT SURFACE FOR SALE THAT OFTEN AND CERTAINLY NOT IN THIS CONDITION!!!

PLEASE NOTE...........THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE WHITE PHOTO DIVIDER