The Beatles Please Please Me LP VINYL ALBUM PMC 1202 2nd Pressing UK BBC Library

Yellow and black Parlophone label with the "Recording First Published 1963" text - this was used in second pressings between April and late 1963. The sides are marked as "Side 1 / Side 2", not "Side One" - this detail also aligns with early pressings. Matrix Numbers (etched/stamped near center).

Day printed sleeve with large mono text and no barcode (authentic early 60s UK print). These -1N lacquer cuts are the very first mastering done by EMI's Abbey Road engineers, and only the earliest pressings have them. This exact pressing was used only on second editions, likely within the first few thousand copies.

This particular version is widely referred to as the "gold standard" collector's pressing of Please Please Me. Please understand that this is an official UK archival record from the British Broadcasting Corporation and the sleeve(s) may contain archival stickers from the BBC. Some of these stickers are'on top' of the plastic with some'underneath' i.

Some sleeves have been'laminated' either by way of'punching' the plastic wallet to two parts of the sleeve or by fully wrapping the plastic to the sleeve. Where sleeves are laminated stickers can be removed with the use of appropriate sticker removal fluids however it is unlikely that stickers can be removed from any sleeves that are not laminated.

The sleeves as such in this collection are generally graded as VG with the records often VG+ to Ex+.