THE BEATLES - Yellow Submarine

Item Description

Vinyl,
LP Album Mono

This was the final Beatles album to be released in mono in Australia (same as the UK). As it was pressed from UK supplied "mothers", it also features the fold-down mix from the stereo master.

Released in a flip-back sleeve with dual catalogue numbers on the rear (top right)

Estimates are that only around 1300 copies of the mono edition were sold in Australia.

The Australian sleeve, while similar to the UK sleeve, has several distinctive differences:
1) A blue/green hill (UK = grey)
2) Font, colour and placement of the "NOTHING IS REAL" text, i.e. blue instead of green, and placed slightly more left.
3) The two 'Blue Meanies', at bottom-right, are grey instead of blue.
4) Rear-sleeve has one red horizontal line (reconstructed locally) and one black line (red on the UK sleeve).
5) Derek Taylor's italicised blurb is horizontally centred (at left on UK sleeve).

Australian Manufactured and distributed by E.M.I. (Australia) Limited Sydney, Australia.

First cat.nr. on cover, second on label.