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Please Please Me by The Beatles, album cover

First-year pressing

Please Please Me 1963 UK Pressing (PMC 1202)

Please Please Me by The Beatles

Mono
Artist
The Beatles
Title
Please Please Me
Label
  • Parlophone PMC 1202
Country
UK
Released
March 22, 1963
Format
LP, Mono, Album
Format notes
Gold & Black Label, Dick James Credits

Runout and matrix codes

Etched or stamped in the dead wax between the last track and the label. If yours match, you have this pressing.

  • XEX.421Side A label
  • XEX.422Side B label
  • XEX 421-1N O 1Side A runout, variant 1
  • XEX 422-1N M 1Side B runout, variant 1
  • XEX 421-1N P 1Side A runout, variant 2
  • XEX 422-1N L 1Side B runout, variant 2
  • XEX 421-1N O 1Side A runout, variant 3
  • XEX 422-1N G G 1Side B runout, variant 3
  • XEX 421-1N T 1Side A runout, variant 4
  • XEX 421-1N GO 2Side A variant, variant 5
  • XEX 422-1N H 1Side B variant, variant 5
  • XEX 421-1N GT 2Side A variant, variant 6
  • XEX 422-1N GL 1 2Side B variant, variant 6
  • XEX 421-1N GR 1Side A variant, variant 7
  • XEX 422-1N T 1 1Side B variant, variant 7
  • XEX 421-1N ASide A variant, variant 8
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