The Beatles "Help " Odeon OP-7387 Red Vinyl Japanese stereo 2/2 1966 g/fold
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The Beatles ?"Help!" Odeon ?OP 7387 Japanese Red Vinyl. The vinyl is housed in a gate-fold sleeve and was issued in 1966.
The vinyl has several surface marks but plays through beautifully on my stereo, no hop or stick and only occasional minimal noise between tracks.The vinyl is housed in an anti-static inner sleeve. The gate-fold sleeve shows minimal signs of wear and is in great condition - no rips or writing. The spine is intact and completely legible. There is no lyric insert. Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A - Stamped): YEX-168-2 20 Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B - Stamped): YEX-169-2 36
"Help!" is the Beatles' fifth studio album and the soundtrack from their film "Help!". It was released on 6 August 1965. Produced by George Martin, it was the fifth UK album release by the band, and contains fourteen songs in its original British form. Seven of these, including the singles "Help!" and "Ticket to Ride", appeared in the film and took up the first side of the vinyl album. The second side contained seven other releases including the most-covered song ever written, "Yesterday". The original LP's format of featuring songs from the soundtrack on side one and non-soundtrack songs on side two follows the format of "A Hard Day's Night".
Mark Kemp of Paste considers it to be the equal of "A Hard Day's Night" and cites "Help!", "Ticket to Ride" and "Act Naturally" as highlights, along with Harrison's return as a songwriter. Kemp identifies "Yesterday" as "the album's masterpiece" and a song that "set the stage for one of the most groundbreaking and innovative periods in The Beatles' career, not to mention pop music in general". Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph says that the album evokes "a band in transition, shifting slightly uncomfortably from the pop thrills of Beatlemania to something more mature", with Lennon's writing increasingly autobiographical and the group's sound growing more sophisticated. McCormick concludes: "Help! may not be their greatest album, but it contains some of their greatest early songs."
In 2012, Help! was voted 331st on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
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