THE BEATLES HELP MONO UK 1981 LIMITED EDITION - VERY SCARCE
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LOTS OF PICTURES OF ITEM, BELOW!!!!
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS RECORD WILL NOT BE RELISTED IF UNSOLD
Title: HELP!
Format: MONO
Country: U.K.
Pressing: 1981-82
Label: REPRO SIXTIES YELLOW 'PARLOPHONE' LOGO
Matrices: XEX 549-3 1 7 / XEX 550-2 16 6
FIRST ISSUED IN THE U.K. IN 1981, THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1969/70 THAT THE MONO MIX OF THIS ALBUM HAD BEEN MARKETED BY E.M.I..
THE FIRST EIGHT ALBUMS (PLEASE PLEASE ME TO SGT. PEPPER'S) OF THIS PREMIERE MONO REISSUE WERE CHARACTERISED BY REPRODUCTION 'SIXTIES' YELLOW/BLACK LABELS, TO WHICH THE WORD 'MONO' WAS ADDED ABOVE AND TO THE RIGHT OF THE YELLOW PARLOPHONE LOGO. THE TWO APPLE ALBUMS (THE BEATLES AND YELLOW SUBMARINE) WERE ISSUED ON THE APPLE LABEL, AGAIN WITH A 'MONO' NOTATION
CONTRARY TO COMMON BELIEF, THE 1981 MONO PRESSINGS WERE INITIALLY ISSUED FOR INDIVIDUAL SALE; IT WAS NOT UNTIL LATER, IN 1982, THAT THE ALBUMS WERE ISSUED TOGETHER IN A BOXED SET (CAT No BMC-10). IN OTHER WORDS, IT DOES NOT NATURALLY FOLLOW THAT INDIVIDUAL ALBUMS OFFERED ON EBAY FROM TIME TO TIME ARE NECESSARILY SOURCED FROM A BOXSET. IN ANY EVENT, A PREMIUM IS PAID FOR THE BOXED EDITIONS (BLUE OR RED).
THE 1981 ISSUE ARE THE ONLY PRESSINGS TO FEATURE THE SIXTIES Y/B PARLOPHONE REPRODUCTION LABELS; EVERY SUBSEQUENT MONO PRESSING UTILISED THE STANDARD, AND UBIQUITOUS, SILVER/BLACK 1-BOX LABELS.
GIVEN THE GENERALLY LIMITED NUMBERS IN WHICH THE 1981 RANGE WERE PRESSED, COUPLED WITH THE "LIMITED EDITION" STATUS OF EACH OF THE BOXSET VARIANTS (500 COPIES OF EACH), IT IS NO EXAGGERATION TO SAY THAT COPIES OF THE 1981 MONO PRESSINGS ARE SCARCE (INDEED, MUCH THINNER ON THE GROUND THAN GOLD MONO PPM'S, 'GOTTA'/JOBETE WTB'S, 'LOUD-CUT' RS', AND 'ALTERNATE MIX' REV'S).
A 'WORLDWIDE' EBAY SEARCH FOR ANY OF THE 1981 MONO Y/B REPRO ALBUMS WILL RETURN FEW, IF ANY, RESULTS ON ANY GIVEN DAY.
THIS IS ONE OF TEN AUCTIONS OF 1981 MONO ALBUMS I AM CURRENTLY AUCTIONING. PLEASE CLICK THE 'OTHER ITEMS FROM THIS SELLER' LINK AT THE TOP-RIGHT OF THIS PAGE.
PLEASE ASK ANY AND ALL QUESTIONS AT LEAST 24-HOURS PRIOR TO AUCTION-END BECAUSE I CANNOT GUARANTEE AN ANSWER IN THE FINAL 24-HOURS. GOOD LUCK.
IMAGE GALLERY
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