BEATLES - A Hard Day's Night

Item Description

Vinyl, , KT Tax Code on B-side Label
LP Album Mono

This release is very similar to [r15291585], but has KT Tax code Embossed on B-side label instead of A-side.

Black and yellow Parlophone label with the perimeter rim copyright text, 'THE PARLOPHONE CO LTD • ALL RIGHTS OF THE MANUFACTURER AND OF THE OWNER OF THE RECORDING WORK RESERVED • UNAUTHORISED PUBLIC PERFORMANCE BROADCASTING AND COPYING OF THIS RECORD PROHIBITED'. Above the spindle hole the centre text, 'SOLD IN THE U.K. SUBJECT TO RESALE PRICE CONDITIONS, SEE PRICE LISTS'.

There are a number of other differentiators present on both the labels and the cover:

Label:
1 - The publishing copyright date is given as 'RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1964', and is nearly left-aligned compared to the matrix number above it.
2 - The group's name 'THE BEATLES' is closer to the '(Lennon-McCartney)' credit above it than the 'Northern Songs Music Ltd.' publishing credit below it.
3 - A2 'I Should Have Known Better' has it's title split over 2 lines.
4 - All of the song titles on side 2 appear on separate lines.
5 - The KT purchase tax code embossing on the label is on either side of the spindle hole. A [url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Beatles-A-Hard-Days-Night/release/7999199] similar variant [/url] has the code MT.

Cover:
1 - Front laminated, tri-flipback and Printed by Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd., with a medium 'MONO' indicator on the front, top, right hand corner
There is a similar version with cover printed by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. [url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Beatles-A-Hard-Days-Night/release/7999199] here [/url].