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: April 1963
Format: LP, Album, Mono
Format notes: Gold & Black Label, Northern Songs Credit, 2nd pressing

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 421-1NStamped, A Side Runout Variant 1
XEX 422-1NStamped, B Side Runout Variant 1
XEX.421Label A Side
XEX.422Label B Side
XEX 421-1N RD 2Stamped, A Side Runout Variant 2
XEX 422-1N GH 12Stamped, B Side Runout Variant 2

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