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2.53am
21 January 2012
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Thanks for the warm welcome and valuable info! I've been collecting Beatles albums for a few years and noticed this oddity a few weeks back when going through the collection with my daughter. I'll check out the link and also see if I can dig up a copy of Spizer's book. I have the Goldmine price guide but nothing mentioned in there about this specifically. Thanks again for the help and I'm glad I stumbled on this site! I'll be spending a lot more time than my wife would like looking around 😀
-John
7.49pm
27 May 2011
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portojohn said:
Thanks for the warm welcome and valuable info! I’ve been collecting Beatles albums for a few years and noticed this oddity a few weeks back when going through the collection with my daughter. I’ll check out the link and also see if I can dig up a copy of Spizer’s book. I have the Goldmine price guide but nothing mentioned in there about this specifically. Thanks again for the help and I’m glad I stumbled on this site! I’ll be spending a lot more time than my wife would like looking around 😀
-John
Welcome! Here's an apple! 
Anyway, I have a story like this. Well, similar. I was inspecting my copy of AHDN once and I noticed that the songs were all written in English but instead of saying 'Produced by George Martin', it said it in Portugeese. I then went to a record dealer a few weeks later and he said it wasn't that there, they were quite common if anything. I picked this record up for £10 at a car boot sale, who knows where it came from!
Anyone else got a copy like this?
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2.53pm
21 February 2012
Offline Hi everyone
im a new member from leicester uk ,im a big lover / collector of vinyl of all styles but have loved the beatles from a very early age.
looking for info and chat on vinyl ,i may also have some doubles of vinyl that i might offer on here
all the best matt
3.13pm
22 April 2011
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I know a lot about USA vinyl but not much about UK stuff.
3.46pm
31 March 2008
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Hi Matt/ringogo. Welcome to the forum.
I moved this from the help guides section to Yesterday and Today, which is more of a catch-all Beatles-talk section. I also renamed the topic titled from NEWBIE to something more descriptive. Hope you don’t mind (and don’t let it put you off posting).
If you have any vinyl to offload, I might be interested. I’ve got a few albums and singles but have big holes in my collection.
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5.23pm
21 February 2012
Offline Hi joe
no problem …i wondered where it was !
the first thing i wanted to talk about was a very strange misspress which i can’t find anything about anywhere
with the beatles album small mono black /yellow parlophone label ,recording first published ,g&l flipback sleeve ,bradford gordy credit for “money”
ok that all leads to a second press ,side 1 with the beatles label ,side 2 has Please Please Me label pmc 1202 !
there seems to be alot of misspress’s recorded in the uk guide but not this one ,i have googled it in various ways and come up with nothing
8.01pm
31 March 2008
Offline Is it just the label that’s stuck on wrongly, or does it play PPM on the b-side? If the latter, it may be worth quite a bit (I’m no expert on this btw).
You could try writing to Record Collector magazine – they may be able to advise.
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9.58pm
21 February 2012
Offline its just the label ,i suppose its an easier mistake to make than actually pressing a different album on the other side.
still im sure if there where other copies they would of come to light by now ?
who knows it will be for sale some time soon
8.28pm
20 May 2012
Offline Hi, I am hoping someone can help me. I have a UK third pressing of Please Please Me with the extra 33 1/3 on the label. I know that this, coupled with the fact that it’s a stereo copy, makes it quite rare but I am struggling to understand the stamper numbers. It has 1-P on side one and 1-G on side two. Has anyone come across one of these before? Thanks!
3.31pm
19 September 2010
Offline I finally got Let It Be on vinyl yesterday, and it’s got a red apple where the granny smith should be. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard of this, but I don’t remember the story behind it. Can one of you explain it to me?
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4.01pm
1 December 2009
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mr. Sun king coming together said
I finally got Let It Be on vinyl yesterday, and it’s got a red apple where the granny smith should be. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard of this, but I don’t remember the story behind it. Can one of you explain it to me?
I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of this before! Certainly, any copies that I’ve seen (including my old copy) had the green apple, so I guess Canadian copies didn’t have the red one; and presumably your copy is an original American. At any rate, according to Wikipedia:
“The American release was also originally issued by Apple Records, but because United Artists distributed the film, United Artists also held the rights to distribute the record in America. (EMI subsidiary Capitol, which held The Beatles’ US contract, had simultaneous rights to the music on the album, and could distribute the songs on various singles and compilation albums. Capitol, however, did not have the rights to release or distribute the actual album.) To indicate that Let It Be was not distributed by Capitol, the original record label in America sported a red apple, rather than The Beatles’ usual green Granny Smith apple. In early 1976, when The Beatles’ EMI contract expired, the group’s catalogue in the US transferred from Apple to Capitol; Let It Be , however, went out-of-print in America for three years.”
…A Beatles album actually going OOP! The mind boggles.
At any rate, that’s quite a minor treasure you have there! Where did you find that, MrSunking?
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
4.21pm
19 September 2010
Offline I found it in a small record shop in downtown Montreal. Why it had an original American release (in pristine condition) is still beyond me. But it’s mine now, so I don’t care.
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2.24pm
1 December 2009
Offline Wow, ‘record shop’? They still have those? Montreal sounds great!
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
2.39pm
9 May 2012
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Wow, ‘record shop’? They still have those? Montreal sounds great!
There are a lot of them in US too (and this is coming from someone who doesn’t live in US xD).
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2.57pm
19 September 2010
Offline He was being sarcastic – he knows (or should damn know) that record stores are thriving again.
And Von – Montreal does kick Toronto’s ass every day of the (8 day) week.
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9.30pm
31 March 2008
Offline As far as I know the version of Let It Be in the original UK box set had a red apple on the back (mine has a green apple, so I think the box set is a bit of a mongrel). I don’t know about other countries. More info here: http://www.jpgr.co.uk/pcs7096.html
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10.20pm
9 May 2012
Offline Maybe it has something to do with the Paul myth ;D *enter more nonsense here*
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5.28am
5 November 2011
Offline Yeah, because he was eating an apple when he got into the car crash, and the apple got blood on it. It represents his death, and also the blood they shed dealing with his death. That’s the real reason they chose the granny smith apple; that’s what Paul was eating when he died. George had some records with white Apple logos. Those represented Paul’s spirit running around in shambles after the car crash.
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6.57pm
1 December 2009
Offline mr. Sun king coming together said
He was being sarcastic – he knows (or should damn know) that record stores are thriving again.
Yeah, and it’s good to hear – just wish there was a half-decent one within reasonable distance of where I live/walk/ride buses! (Brampton, to be precise. Toronto-bashing is fun, isn’t it?)
Curious that the red apple wasn’t used on the “Let It Be ” or “Long And Winding Road” singles. I guess Capitol distributed these?
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
7.02pm
19 September 2010
Offline vonbontee said
(Brampton, to be precise. Toronto-bashing is fun, isn’t it?)
My third favourite sport (behind hockey and football)!
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
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