Vinyl Album - The Beatles - Please Please Me - Parlophone

Vinyl Album

Artist:	The Beatles
Title:	Please Please Me
Label:	Parlophone
Country:	Australia
Catalogue:	PCSO 3042
Date:	9 Apr 1964
Format:	Stereo LP (also Mono LP)
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	4 Own
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	The Beatles	I Saw Her Standing There	McCartney, Lennon	Rate
A2	The Beatles	Misery	McCartney, Lennon	Rate
A3	The Beatles	Anna (Go To Him)	Alexander	Rate
A4	The Beatles	Chains	Goffin, King	Rate
A5	The Beatles	Boys	Dixon, Farrell	Rate
A6	The Beatles	Ask Me Why	McCartney, Lennon	Rate
A7	The Beatles	Please Please Me	McCartney, Lennon	Rate
B1	The Beatles	Love Me Do	McCartney, Lennon	Rate
B2	The Beatles	P.S. I Love You	McCartney, Lennon	Rate
B3	The Beatles	Baby It's You	David, Williams, Bacharach	Rate
B4	The Beatles	Do You Want To Know A Secret	McCartney, Lennon	Rate
B5	The Beatles	A Taste Of Honey	Scott, Marlow	Rate
B6	The Beatles	There's A Place	McCartney, Lennon	Rate
B7	The Beatles	Twist And Shout	Medley And Russell	Rate

Notes

THE AUSTRALIAN VERSION OF THE SLEEVE

All Please Please Me album sleeves manufactured in Australia between December 1963 and December 1980 are characterised by the following:

The front picture of the Australian sleeve is subjectively 'brighter' than the U.K. original; detail that was obscured in shadow on the UK sleeve is evident in the local version. The reason for this is that due to a Union ruling, EMI Australia was not allowed to use imported film negatives as source material for printing sleeves; so a photograph was taken of an imported UK sleeve and the resulting negative used as the source to produce local sleeves. Unfortunately film is analogous to an analogue format so a photograph of an LP sleeve will have some form of 'generation loss', which equates to compromises to colour, detail and relative brightness of the original. Presumably the image was tweaked to the most acceptable level of presentation and printing plates produced from that 'master'.

Blue text was utilised on both sides of the sleeve; not out of any determination to make the sleeve uniquely Australian but simply because it was cheaper to have blue text than black. It should be remembered that at that point in time, The Beatles were largely unknown in Australia and so EMI Australia was reluctant to spend any more than they absolutely had to on sleeve production - which is why 500 sleeves were imported from the UK to house the first Australian copies of Please Please Me.

Being a photograph of an early UK sleeve, the Australian sleeve features the credit for photographer, Angus McBean, at the bottom extreme-right, visible on the rear flipside of the cover.

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An6y66 8th May 2014		Added a first pressing variant the leeds, castle music etc are arranged in different order



Quad5point1 SUBS 14th Feb 2014		Added all Label & Cover scans