Vinyl Album - The Beatles - Abbey Road - Apple

Vinyl Album

Artist:	The Beatles
Title:	Abbey Road
Label:	Apple
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	PCS 7088
Date:	26 Sep 1969
Format:	LP
Genre:	Rock
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	156 Own, 6 Want
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	The Beatles	Come Together	Lennon, McCartney	9.1 Rate
A2	The Beatles	Something	Harrison	9.4 Rate
A3	The Beatles	Maxwell's Silver Hammer	Lennon, McCartney	7.8 Rate
A4	The Beatles	Oh! Darling	Lennon, McCartney	8.7 Rate
A5	The Beatles	Octopus's Garden	Starkey	8.5 Rate
A6	The Beatles	I Want You (She's So Heavy)	Lennon, McCartney	8.6 Rate
B1	The Beatles	Here Comes The Sun	Harrison	9.5 Rate
B2	The Beatles	Because	Lennon, McCartney	8.9 Rate
B3	The Beatles	You Never Give Me Your Money	Lennon, McCartney	9.1 Rate
B4	The Beatles	Sun King	Lennon, McCartney	8.3 Rate
B5	The Beatles	Mean Mr. Mustard	Lennon, McCartney	8.2 Rate
B6	The Beatles	Polythene Pam	Lennon, McCartney	8.5 Rate
B7	The Beatles	She Came In Through The Bathroom Window	Lennon, McCartney	8.5 Rate
B8	The Beatles	Golden Slumbers	Lennon, McCartney	9.1 Rate
B9	The Beatles	Carry That Weight	Lennon, McCartney	8.5 Rate
B10	The Beatles	The End	Lennon, McCartney	9.0 Rate
B11	The Beatles	Her Majesty	Lennon, McCartney	8.2 Rate

Notes

UK Chart Entry: 4 Oct 1969
Highest Position: 1
Total Weeks on Chart: 81
Thanks to George Martin, Geoff Emerick and Phillip McDonald.

"Her Majesty" appears as a hidden track. Between "The End" and "Her Majesty" is 14 seconds of silence. First pressings do not include the song in the track listing.

Cover photograph by Iain Macmillan.

Images

Number: 450147 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: raowood Description: Cover	Number: 451701 Uploaded By: kab2112 SUBS Description: Back Cover	Number: 451702 Uploaded By: kab2112 SUBS Description: Side 1 label	Number: 451704 Uploaded By: kab2112 SUBS Description: Side 2 label
Number: 451703 Uploaded By: kab2112 SUBS Description: Side 1 label	Number: 451705 Uploaded By: kab2112 SUBS Description: Side 2 label	Number: 453965 Uploaded By: roboleyton Description: Water drain cover	Number: 453968 Uploaded By: roboleyton Description: mis-aligned apple
Number: 458934 Uploaded By: pvedsted Description: B side with of 33 1/3 and PCS7088 placed below	Number: 461290 Uploaded By: An6y66 Description: side 1 marconi pressing	Number: 461291 Uploaded By: An6y66 Description: side 2 marconi pressing	Number: 499781 Uploaded By: Quad5point1 Description: Stickered Sleeve
Number: 499787 Uploaded By: Quad5point1 Description: 'A' Side Pathe Marconi	Number: 499788 Uploaded By: Quad5point1 Description: 'B' Side Pathe Marconi	Number: 576294 Uploaded By: roboleyton Description: French Import Pathe Marconi No EMI text A Side	Number: 1252915 Uploaded By: kab2112 SUBS Description: With watermark
Number: 2695934 Uploaded By: Burton LeB SUBS ● Description: Full-page ad, Melody Maker 27 Sep 1969	Number: 2756506 Uploaded By: Burton LeB SUBS ● Description: LP review, Melody Maker 27 Sep 1969	Number: 524424 Uploaded By: An6y66 Description: Sheet Music Cover	Number: 3393769 Uploaded By: Wurzelsepp ● Description: Sheet Music
Number: 3393770 Uploaded By: Wurzelsepp ● Description: Sheet Music	Number: 3687090 Uploaded By: chrisb Description: Melody Maker 4th October 1969

Comments and Reviews


Cameron McMenemy 11th Feb 2021		LP Released: September 26, 1969 Recorded: February 22 - August 20, 1969 at EMI Studios, London Olympic Studios, London Trident Studios, London



Focus B 23rd Aug 2020		I have the first pressing but sadly once owned by someone with a mono ", Steam Roller", type of record player unsuited to playing stereo records, thus ruining it. This was the first Beatles' album to be released exclusively in stereo from of course. It did cost me 25p to be fair.



Peter_Davis 22nd Mar 2019		My copy is a first pressing!



TopPopper 28th Aug 2016		My local Sainsbury's have sold out. (You can still get Revolver and Sgt Pepper LPs though, while picking up your milk and baked beans.) Would be interested to know if airbrushed copies do exist though.



Magic Marmalade 28th Aug 2016		All the covers on Amazon's listings seem to have the cigarette present.



TopPopper 28th Aug 2016		They've got the latest vinyl pressing in my local Sainsbury's. I'll have a look when I go down later.



ppint. 28th Aug 2016		the abbey road cover - well, an abbey road cover - was fairly recently shown (or re-shown) on tv without the cigarette, and compared with an original with it; i don't remember whether one or both were lp sleeves, or cd front inserts - and i had to look back at my original copy, to check that there was indeed a cigarette between paul's fingers on it - i hadn't noticed, or hadn't remembered noticing - in forty-five years! - and then i wondered...



TopPopper 28th Aug 2016		I don't think it ever has been. Do you have an example? (I can well imagine it's been airburshed out from merchandise like cups and T-shirts from time to time, but the actual record sleeve?)



ppint. 28th Aug 2016		does any after know when paul's cigarette was airbrushed(?) out ?



TopPopper 10th Apr 2016		Unknown, although some have said they think it's Linda McCartney. Apparently the official version is that it was a passer-by who got in front of the lens, and they just decided it looked good with her breezing past. This is a good place for info and trivia on the album cover.



bigmcstu 10th Apr 2016		To whom does the bottom on the rear cover belong?



sick and tired 29th Jul 2015		I also HAD the first pressing with the misaligned apple on the back cover that I thought was worthless and gave away but found out later was very rare.



Record Collector 20th Jul 2015		$2.10 AUD



Magic Marmalade 20th Jul 2015		Got this for a quid yesterday! (I smiled as I saw it:)



Neil Forbes 25th Feb 2015		Yes, and in the meantime we've got a bank-up of cars 3 or more miles back along the street blasting their horns and screaming "Get of the(expletive deleted) road, you long-haired gits!"



Record Collector 25th Feb 2015		Different take compared to the album version as I mentioned before paul is doing a run through as he commented at the best worst bits at the and you notice he is doing a alternative guitar solo guide as this was a earlier take



Neil Forbes 25th Feb 2015		Sounds to me like the lyrics are all in place but some of the instrumental backing has gone missing.



Record Collector 25th Feb 2015		Sounds like paul giving it a run though before final lyric added



Neil Forbes 25th Feb 2015		Youtube clip of MSH sounds like an unfinished version.



Record Collector 25th Feb 2015		Guide Vocal Version



Record Collector 25th Feb 2015		A3 fffffffffffffff pop!!!!!! Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical Science in the home



Neil Forbes 25th Feb 2015		W.B. lbl, go to forums, "The Great Abbey Road Comments Thread Of 2015" and read the exchanges between Magic Marmalade, Record Collector, TopPopper and myself, if you can stay seated to read them and not find yourself rolling on the floor in hysteric laughter, that is!



W.B.lbl 25th Feb 2015		Funny, back when this was released this cover was cited as "proof" that Paul was dead, yet 46 years later he's still very much around - and John and George are the ones who are dead (wonder if their respective attire were premonitions) . . .



Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		You had that one "nailed", RC(ha-ha)!



Record Collector 23rd Feb 2015		I must liked A3 so much back then I can hear a cue mark just before it starts



Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Ach, RC, Showin' yer age agin, laddie!(attempt at Scottish accent there - well, I'm part-Scottish).



Record Collector 23rd Feb 2015		thirty four years this week since I bought this record GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! shock horror



Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Jeez, it's been 46 years and they still haven't finished crossing that street yet! Is that John Lennon's and George Harrison's "ghosts" we see on the cover?(ha-ha)



TopPopper 20th Jun 2014		Hey, you're right! You can see by comparing - the "mis-aligned apple" cover has the photo zoomed in a bit, cropping off the top and left hand edges of the artwork. The over-print of the song titles is no longer in line with the apple, but the apple itself is unmoved.



wordnwot 19th Jun 2014		Curious how this came to be, but the so called mis-alignment of the apple is not true. In all cases the apple is below the centre of the A in Abbey Road. Its the white text that is mis-aligned or moved to the right not the apple to the left.



An6y66 31st May 2014		It seems to have become common practice on 45cat to add sheet music where available so have added copy of abbey road sheet music. Mods feel free to hide or delete if we're not putting them on releases in 45worlds.



zabadak 26th Apr 2014		Waiting to cross! :-)



Quad5point1 13th Feb 2014		Added scan of my Pathe Marconi copy which still retains the "Made In France" sticker. Also added better label scans. Feel free to use or discard.



An6y66 17th Oct 2013		No only mono releases of the last albums were on reel to reel tapes.



Orbiting Cat 16th Oct 2013		I've changed the format to just "LP" because there weren't separate mono/stereo issues. As far as I know.



An6y66 4th Oct 2013		added the made in france import labels from the early 70's



roboleyton 8th Sep 2013		2 more images added. 3965 original cover with drain at bottom of sleeve, and 3968 mis-aligned Apple logo on back of sleeve.



kab2112 SUBS 2nd Sep 2013		Back cover and 2 different label scans uploaded



YankeeDisc SUBS ● 1st Sep 2013		@roboleyton........Thanks for that info. I would have bought the album back in '78 (in London, England), and I do not recall any shrink wrap, or stickers on my copy (could have forgotten, though). At the minute, I have dug out several hundred albums from their hidey holes, and am sorting out which nuggets to list first, but I did pull out both my copies of "Abbey Road" and I will cross check.....



roboleyton 1st Sep 2013		YankeeDisc, all coloured vinyl copies, are UK export issues, even though they have standard UK labels. They were pressed in 1978 and each should have a sticker over the shrinkwrap, stating that it is a UK pressing, with 2 Union Jack flags and the price in US $.



YankeeDisc SUBS ● 28th Aug 2013		...thank you Doc.



Dr Doom SUBS 28th Aug 2013		If it's UK issue and otherwise identical it'll be fine to add to the existing entry. : )



YankeeDisc SUBS ● 28th Aug 2013		I have this in black and in a green vinyl edition also, does that need a new sub.