CD Album - The Beatles - Abbey Road - Parlophone

CD Album

Artist:	The Beatles
Title:	Abbey Road
Label:	Parlophone
Country:	International
Date:	19 Oct 1987
Catalogue:	CDP 7 46446 2 / CD-PCS 7088
Barcode:	077774644624
Format:	CD Album
Genre:	Rock
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	58 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
01	The Beatles	Come Together	Lennon, McCartney	8.0 Rate
02	The Beatles	Something	Harrison	7.0 Rate
03	The Beatles	Maxwell's Silver Hammer	Lennon, McCartney	5.0 Rate
04	The Beatles	Oh! Darling	Lennon, McCartney	8.0 Rate
05	The Beatles	Octopus's Garden	Starkey	7.0 Rate
06	The Beatles	I Want You (She's So Heavy)	Lennon, McCartney	7.0 Rate
07	The Beatles	Here Comes The Sun	Harrison	8.0 Rate
08	The Beatles	Because	Lennon, McCartney	6.0 Rate
09	The Beatles	You Never Give Me Your Money	Lennon, McCartney	6.0 Rate
10	The Beatles	Sun King	Lennon, McCartney	5.0 Rate
11	The Beatles	Mean Mr Mustard	Lennon, McCartney	6.0 Rate
12	The Beatles	Polythene Pam	Lennon, McCartney	5.0 Rate
13	The Beatles	She Came In Through The Bathroom Window	Lennon, McCartney	7.0 Rate
14	The Beatles	Golden Slumbers	Lennon, McCartney	7.0 Rate
15	The Beatles	Carry That Weight	Lennon, McCartney	7.0 Rate
16	The Beatles	The End	Lennon, McCartney	7.0 Rate
17	The Beatles	Her Majesty	Lennon, McCartney	3.0 Rate

Notes

The album's first release on CD. On the day of its release UK record shop chain HMV produced a special limited edition 12" numbered CD Boxed Set including:

A badge.
A booklet of black and white photos.
Two posters.

This set had a catalogue number of BEA CD 25/7, and was limited to 12,500 copies.

The CD was also included in the 15 CD Boxed Set The Beatles Box.

Released in the USA in a cardboard long box.

Images

Number: 310535 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: JPGR&B SUBS Description: Cover Front (Inlay)	Number: 316432 Uploaded By: fixbutte Description: Inlay P. 2	Number: 316433 Uploaded By: fixbutte Description: Inlay P. 3	Number: 313074 Uploaded By: kab2112 SUBS Description: Inlay Back
Number: 315910 Uploaded By: TopPopper Description: Back cover without Logos	Number: 316437 Uploaded By: fixbutte Description: Back Cover (Jewel Case) w/ Parlophone Logo	Number: 313073 Uploaded By: kab2112 SUBS Description: Back Cover w/ Apple and Parlophone logos	Number: 746000 Uploaded By: Paul Vinyl Description: made in holland back cover variation under barcode
Number: 316435 Uploaded By: fixbutte Description: CD Made In UK	Number: 315914 Uploaded By: TopPopper Description: CD Made in Holland	Number: 313075 Uploaded By: kab2112 SUBS Description: CD Made in Austria	Number: 998130 Uploaded By: gregs45s SUBS Description: Rear tray artwork and spines (reverse plain white)(Variation)
Number: 1235439 Uploaded By: Lee Wrecker Description: Inlay Australia	Number: 1235440 Uploaded By: Lee Wrecker Description: CD Australia	Number: 3265783 Uploaded By: Mariner16 Description: Disc Made in Italy	Number: 313207 HIDDEN Uploaded By: GEMSMFAN Description: CD booklet front

Comments and Reviews


Lee Wrecker 8th Jan 2017		Changed my mind (to a new improved model) and I will do a separate Australian entry for this post 1992 version with no matching secondary cat# and a slightly different CDP cat# on the disc with no spaces in the numbering and I'll use that as a secondary cat#. All other details the same and in fact this is the 1987 UK remaster on glass cut at EMI UK but the label was printed in Sydney at Digital Audio Technologies Australia and their logo appears on the CD face. The same but different it appears. Trainspotters licence granted - why thank you.



Lee Wrecker 5th Jan 2017		Added Australian release which has several minor differences but is essentially the same release. Cat# on spine is identical but on the CD the numbers are not spaced but this is just the way EMI in Australia prints cat#s on CDs. The Apple logo is also apparent on the inlay unlike all those posted so far but does not appear on the CD. However, I don't believe this minor discrepancies warrant a separate entry.



gregs45s SUBS 7th Mar 2016		Minor rear tray artwork variation added.Disc matches image 315914 (apart from "LC 0299" label code).



Record Collector 26th Sep 2015		Well they didn't at the time but if you look at the remastered version they did



Neil Forbes 26th Sep 2015		Looking at the back insert, why didn't EMI simply adapt the original LP rear cover for the CD package?



TopPopper 20th Jun 2014		OK - here's a pointless bit of trivia. The bricks on this CD insert are from the original wall photo, but for some reason it's now upside down. The long brick centre-bottom on the insert is the brick which was originally immediately beneath the letters OAD of "Abbey Road".



JPGR&B SUBS 12th Apr 2014		I have now amended The Beatles UK 1987 and 2009 releases of the main catalogue to International.



fixbutte 11th Apr 2014		That's good news, JPGR&B. I assume that we'll have many more international issues soon, and that will be much clearer and easier than the vast number of seemingly national issues on other web discographies.



JPGR&B SUBS 10th Apr 2014		Looks like I'm going to be spending the weekend in moderator mode amending The Beatles UK 1987 and 2009 releases of the main catalogue to International. Glad it is all in a flat structure and we can see all the releases together.



fixbutte 10th Apr 2014		@TopPopper These longboxes were mostly seen as useless waste and people didn't want to save them (I remember having disposed those of the few US issues that I had bought as soon as possible), see Wikipedia: A longbox is a form of exterior paperboard packaging for musical compact discs in widespread use in the 1980s and early 1990s in North America. ... When compact discs first began to appear in the retail stores, the longbox packaging served a transitional purpose, allowing shops to file new compact discs in the same bins originally used for vinyl records. Longboxes were 12" tall, and capable of containing two separate discs when necessary. ... Placing the jewelcase within a cardboard enclosure made for a larger and more cumbersome package that would be more difficult to shoplift from retailers. Longboxes began to fade from popularity as the CDs themselves became more colorful (labels initially printed CDs with a plain black-on-silver appearance). Longboxes were also considered environmentally wasteful and were expensive to produce. In North America, the drive to eliminate longboxes took hold in Canada first. ... Most original longboxes were discarded upon purchase, and they have since become desirable amongst music collectors. ...



PhilMH 10th Apr 2014		I will agree with you, fixbutte, and say International for this, because all The Beatles CDs released in Australia in 1987 were imported UK pressings, with Australian pressings becoming available a few years later, and presumably the same situation applied in other countries. Any repressing in any country showing EMI's company name and/or address in that country would then need a separate entry; the questions then become "do we use the original release date" (easier to determine, I would think) "or do we use the issue date of the repressing?" (probably much harder to establish, and I would imagine that the EMI companies would have still considered these to have been released on their original dates).



TopPopper 10th Apr 2014		Have just deleted my comment - I realise that the US editions are issued in long boxes. I think it was discussed on the forum, that these are sufficiently different to warrant their own entries.



fixbutte 10th Apr 2014		As already addressed on the forums, this is not a specific UK issue, even though the first copies were printed and pressed in the UK. Instead it's a European or rather an International release. As seen on the few images uploaded here, the main cat# is obviously CDP 7 46446 2, with the UK number only besides (not at all on the spine), and all European copies, pressed in different countries, looked basically the same. In addition, also the US/Canadian issue, though apparently pressed by Capitol, is the same product: same cover, same shown label (Parlophone), same cat#, even same barcode. So there should not be two different issues (UK and US) but only one.



zabadak ● 8th Apr 2014		I don't often play this album in its entirety. Please Please Me, however...!



fixbutte 8th Apr 2014		It is somehow surprising that this swan song of The Beatles is often said to be their best album, particularly since there are no really good songs by Lennon and McCartney on it. However, this may be a case of the whole being more than the sum of its parts. The performance and the production are masterful, the mood is sublime, and last but not least, George Harrison's contributions are excellently crafted.



fixbutte 8th Apr 2014		I bought the CD in 1987 in Germany, and it was made in the UK and the back cover of the jewel case had the Parlophone logo, like the back of the booklet already uploaded. It is nearly sure that this was the worldwide first version (now added as such).



TopPopper 6th Apr 2014		Added - back cover without the Apple or Parlophone logos at the bottom, which I believe is the earlier edition, plus the CD which is made in Holland.

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Linked Releases

USA - Parlophone / Capitol - 1987

Japan - EMI Odeon - 1983

UK - Parlophone - 1987

International - Apple - 2009

USA - Apple - 2009

Italy - Apple - 2012

Australia - Parlophone

Japan - Echo