The condition of the outer box and the inserts accounts for 75% of the value as the cd is the most common of the elements (even though the non-apple logo discs are out-of-print). Boxes were made for: 1. Please Please Me/With The Beatles/A Hard Days Night/Beatles For Sale 2. Help!/Rubber Soul/Revolver 3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 4.
First pressings need to have the first matrix, which reads as YEX 637 -1 and YEX 638 -1 at 6 o’clock. Than it needs to have a first mother, to be read as ’1’ at 9 o’clock. Finally you need to check the stamper number at 3 o’clock, which uses the letters GRAMOPHLTD (G being first stamper, etc.). The earlier the better.
In 1967, Richard Goldstein wrote a scathing review about the Beatles' eighth studio album, "Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band," in the New York Times. Fifty years later, he gives it another
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