Hi Magic, you ask "would these be international discs in country specific packaging?" I'd say yes. This discussion was had on the site with another release from this series "Abbey Road". Here it is revealed that the longbox cat# and Capitol label was used for Billboard listings and ordering purposes in the USA.
These also may/may not have been released in Australia because at that point we were not manufacturing CDs here. So depending on where we imported them from things could change. I have several CDs that were released here in Australia that came from the USA in a longbox. Of course I don't have the longboxes anymore the all went in the bin because they were difficult to store and just excess packaging. I do remember a lot of Columbia and MCA releases landed in our shops in longboxes around this time such as this Carter Family CD. I listed this as a USA release because I'm not sure whether it was officially released here or imported but it may have been the Australian issue as well which would cause some problems.
The Apple label sometimes appearing and sometimes not on the same release of Beatles CDs is common on a lot of the early releases (pre 1995) of their back catalogue on CD. Is it just an artwork discrepancy or is it of any import? Who knows?
One thing is certain though and that is longboxes are trouble and more particularly when they carry different data to the product they housed.
Have changed the label to Parlophone only, but I'm seeing two distinct issues here... one without "Apple" branding, and the other with, which may need a separate entry?
(Why do the discs have UK cat details on too? - would these be international discs in country specific packaging?)
I think we need the Capitol longbox cat# here as the primary cat# or do we merge this with the international entry that has the same cat#, label and barcode. The linked international version should also have the primary and secondary cat#s switched around and have the UK specific number second.