This LP has been play graded. No issues during testing, NM
180g Vinyl Mono LP
All-Analog Remastered from the 1/4 Master Tapes at Abbey Road and Pressed at Optimal in Germany
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 39/500
Their debut album, Please Please Me, was released in 1963. The album was rush-released in the UK to capitalize on the success of the singles Please Please Me and Love Me Do . Eight of the songs on this album were written by Lennon McCartney. The album is chock full of hit tunes including P.S. I Love You , Do You Want To Know a Secret and I Saw Her Standing There .
The Beatles in mono: This is how most listeners first heard the group in the 1960s, when mono was the predominant audio format. Up until 1968, each Beatles album was given a unique mono and stereo mix, but the group always regarded the mono as primary. The Beatles nine U.K. albums, the American-compiled Magical Mystery Tour, and the Mono Masters collection of non-album tracks are released in mono on 180-gram vinyl LPs with faithfully replicated artwork and newly mastered from the analogue master tapes.
In an audiophile-minded undertaking, The Beatles acclaimed mono albums have been newly mastered for vinyl from quarter-inch master tapes at Abbey Road Studios by GRAMMY -winning engineer Sean Magee and GRAMMY -winning mastering supervisor Steve Berkowitz. While The Beatles In Mono CD boxed set released in 2009 was created from digital remasters, for this new vinyl project, Magee and Berkowitz cut the records without using any digital technology. Instead, they employed the same procedures used in the 1960s, guided by the original albums and by detailed transfer notes made by the original cutting engineers.
Working in the same room at Abbey Road where most of The Beatles albums were initially cut, the pair first dedicated weeks to concentrated listening, fastidiously comparing the master tapes with first pressings of the mono records made in the 1960s. Using a rigorously tested Studer A80 machine to play back the precious tapes, the new vinyl was cut on a 1980s-era VMS80 lathe.
Manufactured for the world at Optimal Media in Germany, The Beatles albums are presented in their original glory, both sonically and in their packaging.
Features:
180g Vinyl
Mono
Remastered at Abbey Road Studios
Newly mastered for vinyl from quarter-inch master tapes by GRAMMY -winning engineer Sean Magee and GRAMMY -winning mastering supervisor Steve Berkowitz
Faithfully replicated artwork
Newly mastered from the analogue master tapes
Manufactured at Optimal Media in Germany
Selections:
Side One:
1. I Saw Her Standing There
2. Misery
3. Anna Go To Him
4. Chains
5. Boys
6. Ask Me Why
7. Please Please Me
Side Two:
1. Love Me Do
2. P.S. I Love You
3. Baby It s You
4. Do You Want To Know A Secret
5. A Taste Of Honey
6. There s A Place
7. Twist And Shout
