The Beatles 1965 RUBBER SOUL Yellow/Black Parlophone MONO 1st Press Loud Cut

	£		29
	$		38

Non-UK bidders/buyers - Please scroll down to read the list of countries I am willing to mail to before placing a bid!!   Please also read the listed prices for each group of countries which is at the bottom of this description

The price quoted at the top of this listing is for postage within the UK only - 2nd class signed for with a value of up to £45.  If the record goes for more than this it will cost more to post - see below

Frequently asked questions about postage:

Do you combine postage?  Yes.  I am not a business.  I have decent scales and if someone buys more than one record I pack, weigh and then send the invoice.  If someone buys quite a lot I will take the time to work out the various ways I can combine items to get the lowest postal costs with the correct insurance.

Will you send by standard postage?  No.  I will not post anything unless it has the correct insurance and a signature at point of delivery.   This includes international postage.


The Beatles 1965 RUBBER SOUL Yellow/Black Parlophone MONO 1st Press Loud Cut

Way back in 1965 I did not have a record player and I used to take a Grundig reel to reel tape recorder round my friend's house and tape her records by putting the microphone in front of the speaker on her mum's radiogram.  How technology has changed!!  She gave me some of her records that she remembered me taping when she was downsizing and this is one of them.

On the Parlophone Records label

Matrix numbers:      Side 1 -  XEX 579 - 1
                                  Side 2 -  XEX 580 - 1

TRACK LISTING and audio comments

SIDE ONE there are clicks at the start for several revolutions but they stop before the 1st track starts

1.  Drive My Car   plays great, sounds fab
2.  Norwegian Wood  plays great, sounds fab.   There are 2 clicks in the space between tracks 2 and 3
3.  You Won't See Me  plays great, sounds fab
4.  Nowhere Man  plays great, sounds fab
5.  Think For Yourself  plays great, sounds fab.  There are 2 clicks in the space between tracks 5 and 6
6.  The Word  plays great, sounds fab
7.  Michelle  some faint surface noise

SIDE TWO

1.  What Goes On  plays great, sounds fab
2.  Girl   plays great, sounds fab
3.  I'm Looking Through You  plays great, sounds fab
4.  In My Life  a very faint click in the background as it turns for the first half of the track
5.  Wait  a very faint click near the start and 2 more near the end
6.  If I Needed Someone  a click at the start for 9 revolutions and then again at the end for 3 revs
7.  Run For Your Life  plays great, sounds fab

Produced by George Martin

MONO!!


THE COVER   is in overall very good condition. A bit of wear on the bottom right edge about 2 cm long and a bit more on the top right edge about 0.5 cm long. 

The front:    is laminated.  There are a few wrinkles around the edges and a few more in the body of the front but it is nearly 50 years old.  None of the laminate is lifting or missing.

The spine:   clean, undamaged and legible

The back:   has got the 3 edge folded over and glued down format.  It looks a little grubby and there are one or two small spots

THE VINYL:  I am going to be brutally honest -  I got the vinyl out of the sleeve and my heart sank. There are loads of spindle marks on both sides but you only see them when the record is tilted against the light.  Otherwise the labels on both sides are in extremely good condition with no writing, no tears or missing bits.  There are heaps of sleeve scuffs and surface scratches on both sides of the vinyl. I've played it all the way through on both sides and there are no jumps or sticking points, it plays amazingly well and I can't believe it sounds so good.  They just don't make vinyl like this anymore.

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If you live in the Canterbury/Herne Bay area you are welcome to collect or I could possibly deliver to a convenient venue.

POSTAGE:  I do not charge for packing materials, time spent packing or walking/driving to the Post Office!  Ebay are now taking a postage fee of 10% of whatever a seller charges.  (Thanks to all the greedy sellers who were deliberately making money on the postage they were charging buyers.) 

UK:   I send items with a value of up to £45.00 by 2nd class Recorded/Signed For to UK addresses.   I will only post an item if it has the correct amount of insurance. This means that the actual postage could be more than quoted at the top of this listing.  The following prices for posting one LP in a mailer with a cardboard stiffener are from the Royal Mail's website.

Value up to £45 - postage will be £3.70 for Second Class Signed For

Value between £45 and £100 - postage will be £6.95 for Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed by 1 pm

INTERNATIONAL: I send items by Airsure if it is available, which means that international postage can be very expensive.  I will only post to countries that are listed on the Royal Mail's website as providing a signed for service at point of delivery.  

If you are happy to pay the Airsure postage, I am happy to post to the following countries for the price shown in red:

EU: - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Irish Republic, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden
Value of up to £45 postage will be £12
Value of £45 to £500 postage will be £15

Europe: - Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Switzerland
Value of up to £45 postage will be £12
Value of £45 to £500 postage will be £15

Rest of the World: - Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, USA
Value of up to £45 postage will be £13
Value of £45 to £500 postage will be £15.50

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Please note: PAYPAL only.  I will post out as soon as possible after payment is received and will email once the item is despatched.

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