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AUTHENTIC GROUP AUTOGRAPHS

ITEM#: AA157
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DESCRIPTION
"PLEASE PLEASE ME" LP ALBUM
PARLOPHONE PMC 1202, RELEASED MARCH 22, 1963, ORIGINAL VERY FIRST INITIAL MONO PRESSING,
ACCOMPANIED BY ORIGINAL RECORD WITH RAREST "BLACK & GOLD" / DICK JAMES CREDITS FIRST LABEL VARIATION.
AUTOGRAPHED ON THE BACK COVER BY THE BEATLES, WITH "BEST WISHES FROM THE BEATLES" WRITTEN BY JOHN.
SUNDAY 31 MARCH 1963, DE MONTFORT HALL, LEICESTER, ENGLAND.

A MERE FIVE DAYS AFTER CONCLUDING THE HELEN SHAPIRO TOUR, ON SATURDAY 9 MARCH 1963 THE BEATLES SET OFF GALLIVANTING AROUND A SNOW-BOUND BRITAIN ON A SECOND THEATRE PACKAGE TOUR. TOP BILLING THIS TIME WAS SHARED BY TWO AMERICAN INDIVIDUALS, TOMMY ROE AND CHRIS MONTEZ, ALTHOUGH BOTH WERE VERY QUICKLY SUPERSEDED BY THE INCREASINGLY ALL-CONQUERING BEATLES. THE FINAL NIGHT OF THIS TOUR OCCURRED ON SUNDAY 31 MARCH AT THE DE MONTFORT HALL IN LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE. IT WAS HERE FOLLOWING THEIR PERFORMANCE THAT THIS MOST MAJESTIC EXAMPLE OF THE GROUP'S VERY FIRST LP - RELEASED ONLY NINE DAYS EARLIER ON 22 MARCH- WAS SIGNED. AUTOGRAPHED "PLEASE PLEASE ME" LPS ARE VERY REVERED, FOR IT WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF THEIR RISE TO STARDOM.

THE SIGNATURES ARE VERY LARGE IN SIZE, AS COMPARED TO OTHER EXAMPLES OF SIGNED ALBUMS. PHOTOS AND SCANS DO NOT TRULY DISPLAY THE CLARITY. JOHN SIGNED IN LIGHT BLUE BALLPOINT, AND THE MOST MARVELOUS ASPECT IS THAT HE ADDED THE SENTIMENT "BEST WISHES FROM THE BEATLES" ABOVE HIS SIGNATURE. VERY RARELY DID JOHN SIGN “THE BEATLES" ON ANY OF THEIR RECORDED MATERIALS, FOR THE GROUP'S NAME WAS ALWAYS PRINTED ON THAT MATERIAL. PAUL SIGNED IN LIGHT BLUE BALLPOINT PEN AS WELL AND ADDS "XXX" AND AN UNDERLINE BENEATH. GEORGE (WHOSE SIGNATURE APPEARS A BIT LIGHTER IN PRESSURE) ALSO SIGNS IN LIGHT BLUE BALLPOINT NEAR THE TOP AREA. FINALLY, RINGO HAS SIGNED IN A DARKER SHADE OF BLUE BALLPOINT ACROSS THE BOTTOM AREA.

The back cover has benefitted from tasteful and unobtrusive Professional cleaning, the majority of which was in restoring the LP flaps. The work performed did not affect the signatures in any manner. THE Overall CONDITION OF THE COVER IS A very good plus.

THIS PARTICULAR COVER is one of the RARER INITIAL, FIRST early cover RUNS, with "Printed and Made by Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd. London" AS SEEN in the lower right hand corner of the back cover. ANOTHER ASPECT THAT DICTATES THE EARLIEST COVER IS SHOWN ON THE FRONT COVER, WHERE THE ANGUS McBEAN PHOTO CREDIT IN THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER IS SHIFTED TO THE RIGHT, WITH "PHOTO" STARTING UNDER THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE LAST "S" IN THE WORD "SONGS" ABOVE IT. THIS COMPANY PRODUCED THESE FIRST COVERS FOR A VERY SHORT SPAN, UNTIL Garrod & Lofthouse RESUMED THE MANUFACTURING OF the Please Please Me covers SHORTLY THEREAFTER.

ALSO INCLUDED IS THE RARE ORIGINAL RECORD THAT ACCOMPANIED THIS SIGNED EARLY COVER, THE pre-1963 black Parlophone label with gold ink and “ LONG PLAYING” curved across the top. THIS LABEL VARIATION WAS deleted immediately after it’s release, AND PHASED OUT BY THE VERY END OF MARCH 1963. FURTHERMORE, This pressing is also dictated by the very first labels that erroneously list "Dick James Mus Co" as the publisher for all the "McCartney-Lennon" songs except Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You. When the error was discovered, new labels WERE PRINTED WITH THE correct publisher, "Northern Songs Ltd.". THE RECORD IS IN VERY GOOD PLUS CONDITION.

ACCOMPANIED BY LIFETIME LETTER OF AUTHENTICITY FROM FRANK CAIAZZO.