THE BEATLES ABBEY ROAD ABSOLUTE FIRST PRESS 1969 NO HER MAJESTY

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THE BEATLES ABBEY ROAD S0 383 1969 NOT EASY TO FIND WITH VINYL IN THIS CONDITION! PRESSED FOR SMALL AMT OF TIME! NO RESERVE, GOOD LUCK PLEASE REFER TO PICS WHICH SHOW MORE DETAILED COVER SHOWING LAST SMALL PIECE OF STRIPE ON RIGHT AND BELOW JOHN AND RINGO HER MAJESTY LISTED ON THE BACK COVER READ BELOW EMAIL ANY QUESTIONS WETHER OR NOTH THE FIRST OR SECOND PRESSING OF ABBEY ROAD IS THE RAREST IS NOT DEFINITE? FACT IS THAT THIS LP WAS PRINTED FROM SEPTEMBER 11 TO SEPTEMBER 24 1969, ONLY 13 DAYS!

THE HISTORY OF THE PRESSING OF ABBEY ROAD: Abbey Road (released October 1, 1969) was the first Beatles album in America packaged with print-on-board covers. These covers involved the process of printing the cover image directly onto white posterboard, which is then folded and glued to form the album jacket. The previous Beatles album covers were constructed by affixing separately printed slicks to cardboard jackets. The new print-on-board covers were a superior looking package. Another advantage was that these covers were manufactured by one company, whereas the older style covers involved both a printer and an album fabricator. Capitol documents indicate that the album's artwork was shipped on September 11,1969. 

COVER # 1 : FIRST BATCH 
The first batch of covers (SC1A, Spizer) do not list Her Majesty on the back cover track listing. The front cover has more of the crosswalk at the bottom edge of the cover, and includes a portion of a square road sewer positioned on the bottom edge of the cover, beneath Ringo and John's feet. 

COVER # 2 : SECOND BATCH 
Prior to the album going on sale, Capitol had the film for the back cover revised to list the song Her Majesty after The End. The new artwork was sent out on September 24,  many covers had been printed. The front cover image has the exact characteristics of Cover # 1 : more of the crosswalk at the bottom edge of the cover, and includes a portion of a square road sewer positioned on the bottom edge of the cover, beneath Ringo and John's feet, her majesty IS listed at the end of side 2 track list. It was also presses for just a couple weeks until those covers ran out.


COVER # 3 : THIRD BATCH 
Abbey Road ended up being the only Beatles album to have print-on-board covers upon its initial release. Although Capitol was pleased with the print-on-board jackets, future decisions regarding the mastering, packaging and advertising of Apple releases were handled directly by Apple by very loyal individuals who had a long-standing relationship with Queens Litho and selected them again to be the primary printer of cover slicks for future Beatles albums starting with Hey Jude. When Capitol's pressing plants ran out of the print-on-board covers, Apple hired Queens Litho to print slicks for additional Abbey Road jackets. These THIRD (and final) BATCH Covers (SC2A, Spizer) used slicks printed by Queens Litho and Bert-Co and were manufactured by Imperial and/or Modern Album. The back cover slicks were made from the album's original artwork and accordingly do not list Her Majesty on the back cover. The front cover image was enlarged to allow for the front slick to be wrapped around to the back cover. Thus, the picture on the front shows less of the trees and crosswalk (the square sewer in the road is missing) and has a larger image of the Beatles.

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