THE BEATLES Please Please Me UK 1963 1st Press GOLD LABEL Mono LP

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THE BEATLES Please Please Me LP,  Parlophone PMC 1202, VERY 1st UK pressing from 1963 with Dick James Music Co.  credits and black and gold labels. -1, -1 matrixes. 2 RG, 1/2 GL mothers/stampers.

The begging of the band roots back to 1957.  At that time, John Lennon and Paul McCartney created their first group together  with their friends from Quarry Bank School. At first, they called themselves  Blackjacks, but the name quickly changed to The Quarry Men. Year and a half  later, the band gained a new drummer - Stuart Sutcliffe. It was the time, when  the boys performed in local pubs and bars. What is more, their band name was  constantly changing; it started from Johny And The Moondogs, Silver Beats, all  the way to The Silver Beatles. Finally, after Pete Beast joined the group, the  band called itself The Beatles. 5-man band took Hamburg by storm. At that place,  they parted ways with Stuart, who wanted to become fully engaged in painting.  Hamburg was also the place where the boys met a music manager - Brian Epstein.  On 61/62 New Year’ Eve, Beatles travelled to London to start negotiations  concerning their first contract. However, the then company manager, Dick Rowe,  was not fully convinced about the skills of the boys, so the agreement between  the parties was not concluded. Around that time, Stuart Sutcliffe died of stroke.

The members of the band decided to fully  trust Epstein and change their image from leather jackets to suits. Then, they  also met one of the most influential people in their career – George Martin. The  group lost Pete Beast, and one of their friends – Ringo Starr became a drummer.

The first recording session of the band  took place on 6th June 1962 at Abbey Road Studio where such songs as Please  Please Me, P.S. I Love You, and Love Me Do were recorded. The latter one was a  single promoting the record of the band from Liverpool and debuted on the 17th  place of the Retailer Record.

In February 1963, fourteen Beatles’ songs  recorded during one of the sessions were included on the Please Please Me album  and published by a German record company called Parlophone which was managed by  Martin. After the great success of such singles as Love Me Do and Please Please  Me, the whole album was appreciated by the audience as well. As a debut album,  it achieved a significant commercial record, reached the British hit list in  1963, and stayed there for thirty months. Paradoxically, it was replaced by the  second Beatles album titled With The Beatles. In 2003, the Rolling Stone  magazine put the album on 39th place in the ranking of 500 best albums ever  recorded. What is more, the same magazine put two songs form the said record on  the list of 500 best songs ever. Those were: I Saw Her Standing There, and  Please, Please Me. The third single - From Me to You, was published in April and  was successful as well. She Loves You made availed to the public afterwards was  sold in 750 thousand copies within less than four weeks.

George Martin – the caretaker of the band  and the lover of London Zoo, had a vision of the cover – he decided to take a  photo of The Beatles with the insect section of the zoo in the background, as it  was thought to be a great advertisement of the object. Nevertheless, the London  Zoological Association rejected the idea. Therefore, Angus McBean suggested  picturing the band looking down the balcony of the EMI headquarters in London.  The idea was accepted and put into action.

CONDITION
Visually, the vinyl is in GOOD plus/VERY GOOD minus condition, as it has  many lines and light scratches, but there are no "real" rifts. While listening,  gentle cracklings are audible, mainly between the tracks. I can guarantee that  the record plays much better than it looks and that is why sound quality has  been assessed as VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD plus.
The original Ernest J. Day sleeve with the Angus McBean credit to the right of  “songs” on the front is VERY GOOD plus - a pretty nice one, considering  how bad this cover often looks. Please study pics closely.
Comes with the original EMITEX inner sleeve, unsplit and near perfect.

A flat, unfiltered  recording of the album recorded directly from this disc can be heard on the  YouTube player below:

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