the BEATLES Let It Be SEALED US APPLE AR 34001 No cuts
$
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Description
the BEATLES "Let It Be" SEALED US APPLE gatefold pressing AR 34001 with "an ABKCO managed company" printed on the bottom line of the back, see our photo slideshow below. Gatefold jacket is lined up nicely. Corners are in great shape: 3 of the 4 corners have a tiny bit of wear at the corner points due to a tiny gap in the shrinkwrap at those corners. Front upper-right corner has a bit of original price-sticker impression still visible. Back side has light compression and minor shelf-wear on the surface of the shrinkwrap. No other gaps or rips in the shrinkwrap at all. Front cover photos were compared to a known counterfeit version of the album, and are obviously legit: crisp and not washed out or mottled and grainy like the counterfeit version. The text is clear and sharp on the back as well.
*distribution info about "The Red Apple":
In the UK, the album was originally issued by Apple (and distributed by EMI) in a lavish box that also included a book featuring stills from the Let It Be film. Several months later, the album was reissued in Great Britain in a standard LP jacket, sans book. In the United States, the Let It Be album was issued in a standard jacket, without the book. The American release was also originally issued by Apple Records, but because United Artists distributed the film, United Artists also held the rights to distribute the record in America. (EMI subsidiary Capitol, which held The Beatles' US contract, had simultaneous rights to the music on the album, and could distribute the songs on various singles and compilation albums. Capitol, however, did not have the rights to release or distribute the actual album.) To indicate that Let It Be was not distributed by Capitol, the original record label in America sported a RED apple, rather than The Beatles' usual green Granny Smith apple. In early 1976, when The Beatles' Apple Record contract expired, most of the group's catalogue in the US transferred from Apple to Capitol; Let It Be, however, went out-of-print in America for three years. In 1979, Capitol/EMI acquired United Artists Records; with this acquisition, Capitol acquired the rights to two Beatles' albums previously distributed in the US by United Artists, Let It Be and the soundtrack album A Hard Day's Night. (As A Hard Day's Night had never been issued by Apple in the US, it remained in print in America under the United Artists label when the Apple contract expired in 1976.) Shortly after acquiring United Artists Records, Capitol re-issued both UA distributed Beatles' albums on the Capitol label.
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