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#22. Hey Jude (PCS 7184)
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#22-1 Hey Jude (1st Press "2 EMI Marks / EMI RECORDS LTD rim": PCS 7184)
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TITLE
HEY JUDE
CATALOG NUMBER PCS 7184
RELEASE DATE
11th May 1979 / 1st Press
TRACK LISTING SIDE 1 SIDE 2
Can't Buy Me Love
Hey Jude
I Should Have Known Better
Old Brown Shoe
Paperback Writer
Don't Let Me Down
Rain Ballad of John and Yoko
Lady Madonna  
Revolution  
FRONT --> Click! BACK --> Click! SIDE 1 --> Click! SIDE 2 --> Click! DISC
sleeve sleeve label label label
INNER SLEEVE BACK COVER CLOSE-UP
sleeve sleeve cover "Manufactured by E.M.I. Records Ltd" was printed at the bottom.
BACK COVER CLOSE-UP
cover Catalog No. "PCS 7184" was printed at the upper right corner.
cover
cover
"Available on tape" credit was printed at the left corner of the back cover. "1979 EMI Records Ltd" credit was printed at the bottom right corner.
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Domestic Issue
=this record
Export Issue The title for the export album is "HEY JUDE ! (1971 / Apple label)" but the title for the domestic release is "HEY JUDE", without the exclamation mark, and removed the Apple mark on the left bottom of the back cover.
sleeve sleeve sleeve label
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label label label The label had two boxed EMI logos printed in black on white backgrounds.
The rim text began with "EMI RECORDS LTD" in uppercase and ended with "MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN".
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label ℗ EMI Records Ltd. Compilation ℗ 1979 EMI Records Ltd." credit was printed at the left part of the label.
SIDE 1 SIDE 2
label label
Matrix No. is
Side-1: YEX  981 - 1
Side-2: YEX  982 - 1
OTHER ITEM
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LABEL Black/white Parlophone label with silver print Type-3
MIX STEREO
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 YEX  981 - 1
SIDE 2 YEX  982 - 1
VINYL COLOR BLACK
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME Label: EMI Records Ltd.
Cover: Manufactured by EMI Records
CENTRAL REMARK
"SOLD IN U.K."
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RECORDING  PUBLISHED CREDIT ℗ 1979
COVER FORM Single-pocket, fully laminated sleeve.
The inner flap was made from the front cover and glued to the back cover.
PRINTER CREDIT None
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES Photo: Ethan Russell and Monte Fresco
INNER SLEEVE White paper sleeve "IMPORTANT NOTICE in rectangle box" Type-2-2
PRODUCER George Martin
COMMENTS Black label with two white-black EMI logos and silver print. "The EMI Records Ltd…" printed at the start perimeter print and "Made In GT. Britain" printed at the end of the perimeter print.
The album was first released domestically in Britain on 11th May 1979. The album had appeared in the U.S. in 1970 and was also manufactured in Britain for export. It received a British domestic release in 1979, nearly nine years after its U.S. appearance. The album includes most of The Beatles' later singles released in 1968 and 1969 together with both sides of the 1966 single "Paperback Writer". Two rather odd and out of sequence inclusions are "Can’t Buy Me Love" and "I Should Have Known Better" both from the "A Hard Day’s Night" album that were included in place of "The Inner Light" and "Get Back" even though their respective A and B sides, "Lady Madonna" and "Don’t Let Me Down", are included.

Fully laminated sleeve manufactured by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. White paper EMI custom inner sleeve.
Matrix numbers:
Side One: YEX 981-1
Side Two: YEX 982-1.

The Beatles united for a final photographic session on 22 August 1969. This was their final group photo session.
The shoot took place in the house and grounds of Tittenhurst Park, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's home in Sunninghill near Ascot, Berkshire. The couple had moved in earlier in the month, although they had bought the 72-acre estate in May 1969.
The photo shoot took place two days after their final recording session together. The photographers were Ethan Russell and Monte Fresco, with additional pictures taken by The Beatles' assistant Mal Evans.



#22-2 Hey Jude (2nd Press "2 EMI Marks / ALL RIGHTS rim": PCS 7184)
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TITLE
HEY JUDE
CATALOG NUMBER PCS 7184
RELEASE DATE
June 1981? / 2nd Press
TRACK LISTING SIDE 1 SIDE 2
Can't Buy Me Love
Hey Jude
I Should Have Known Better
Old Brown Shoe
Paperback Writer
Don't Let Me Down
Rain Ballad of John and Yoko
Lady Madonna  
Revolution  
FRONT --> Click! BACK --> Click! SIDE 1 --> Click! SIDE 2 --> Click! DISC --> Click!
sleeve sleeve label label label
INNER SLEEVE INNER SLEEVE CLOSE-UP
sleeve sleeve sleeve sleeve White paper sleeve "IMPORTANT NOTICE in rectangle box" Type-3-3
FRONT & BACK COVER CLOSE-UP
sleeve label Apple logomark was not printed at the lower left of the back cover.
"Manufactured by E.M.I. Records Ltd" was printed at the bottom of the back.
BACK COVER CLOSE-UP
cover Catalog No. "PCS 7184" was printed at the upper right corner.
cover
cover
"Available on tape" credit was printed at the left corner of the back cover. "1979 EMI Records Ltd" credit was printed at the bottom right corner.
LABEL CLOSE-UP
label label label The label had two boxed EMI logos printed in black on white backgrounds.
The rim text began with "ALL RIGHTS OF" in uppercase.
LABEL CLOSE-UP
label label ℗ EMI Records Ltd. Compilation ℗ 1979 EMI Records Ltd." credit was printed at the left part of the label. label Catalog number "PCS 7184" was printed at the right side of the label.
label "MANUFACTURED IN THE UK BY EMI RECORDS LIMITED" was added at the end of the outer rim.
LABEL CLOSE-UP
label label The title for the export album is "HEY JUDE ! (1971 / Apple label)" but the title for the domestic release is "HEY JUDE", without the exclamation mark.
OTHER ITEM
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LABEL Black/white Parlophone label with silver print Type-5 (All Rights rim)
MIX STEREO
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 YEX  981 - 1      HTM
MOTHER & STAMPER
1 / 15
SIDE 2 YEX  982 - 1 1 / 14
VINYL COLOR BLACK
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME Label: EMI Records Ltd.
Cover: Manufactured by EMI Records
CENTRAL REMARK
"SOLD IN U.K."
-
RECORDING  PUBLISHED CREDIT ℗ 1979
COVER FORM Single-pocket, fully laminated sleeve.
The inner flap was made from the front cover and glued to the back cover.
PRINTER CREDIT None
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES Photo: Ethan Russell and Monte Fresco
INNER SLEEVE White paper sleeve "IMPORTANT NOTICE in rectangle box" Type-3-3
PRODUCER George Martin
COMMENTS The album was first released domestically in Britain on 11th May 1979. Previously producible only on export to U.S. and British Commonwealth of Nations, this album eventually was officially released in Britain nearly nine years after appearance in the U.S. The album includes most of The Beatles' later singles released in 1968 and 1969 together with both sides of the 1966 single "Paperback Writer". Two rather odd and out of sequence inclusions are "Can’t Buy Me Love" and "I Should Have Known Better" both from the "A Hard Day’s Night" album that were included in place of "The Inner Light" and "Get Back" even though their respective A and B sides, "Lady Madonna" and "Don’t Let Me Down", are included.

Black and White Parlophone label with silver print:
with two "EMI" marks, placed at the top and bottom, which are white with black print (reversed).
The label carried the credit "ALL RIGHTS .... MANUFACTURED IN THE UK BY EMI RECORDS LIMITED" around the label.


Both Columbia and Parlophone changed their label design adding an EMI boxed logo (one EMI boxed logo label) at the bottom of the label, in 1969: this design with silver text on black background was used from the end of 1969 and the beginning of 1971:

In early 1971, Columbia and Parlophone added another EMI logo (two EMI boxed logo label) at the top of the label: this two EMI boxed logo design lasted for many years:

That is as to say that all the Beatles albums were re-pressed on two EMI boxed logos label with the start of the label perimeter print as “THE GRAMOPHONE CO LTD…: well: it seems to me that between 1971 and 1973 was reissued the entire Beatles catalog.


On 1st July 1973, The Gramophone Company Limited was renamed to EMI Records Limited, and accordingly the start of the labels perimeter print was changed to “EMI RECORDS LTD…”.
However, this change was not always straightforward: we know that, for example, the album "Burn" released by Deep Purple on February 1974, still had the old perimeter print.

In October 1980 the rim-text was again altered so that it started with “ALL RIGHTS OF THE PRODUCER…”.

Fully laminated sleeve manufactured by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. White paper EMI custom inner sleeve.
Matrix numbers:
Side One: YEX 981-1
Side Two: YEX 982-1.

The Beatles united for a final photographic session on 22 August 1969. This was their final group photo session.
The shoot took place in the house and grounds of Tittenhurst Park, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's home in Sunninghill near Ascot, Berkshire. The couple had moved in earlier in the month, although they had bought the 72-acre estate in May 1969.
The photo shoot took place two days after their final recording session together. The photographers were Ethan Russell and Monte Fresco, with additional pictures taken by The Beatles' assistant Mal Evans.



#22-3 Hey Jude (3rd Press "2 EMI Marks / ALL RIGHTS rim with Renting": PCS 7184)
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#22-4 Hey Jude (4th Press "Parlophone Logo": PCS 7184)
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TITLE
HEY JUDE
CATALOG NUMBER PCS 7184
RELEASE DATE
December 1991? / 4th Press
TRACK LISTING SIDE 1 SIDE 2
Can't Buy Me Love
Hey Jude
I Should Have Known Better
Old Brown Shoe
Paperback Writer
Don't Let Me Down
Rain Ballad of John and Yoko
Lady Madonna  
Revolution  
FRONT --> Click! BACK --> Click! SIDE 1 --> Click! SIDE 2 --> Click! DISC
sleeve sleeve label label label
INNER SLEEVE BACK COVER CLOSE-UP
sleeve label cover Catalog No. "PCS 7184", "062-06 864" and barcode were printed at the upper right corner.
label
BACK COVER CLOSE-UP
cover
cover
cover "Manufactured by EMI Records Ltd Hayes, Middlesex, England" was printed at the bottom. "1979 EMI Records Ltd" credit was printed at the bottom right corner.
LABEL CLOSE-UP
label label label Black label with silver Parlophone logo and silver print.
℗ EMI Records Ltd. This compilation ℗ 1979 EMI Records Ltd." credit was printed at the left part of the label.
LABEL CLOSE-UP
label The rim text began with "ALL RIGHTS OF THE PRODUCER…" and was read from right to left around the label rim. "MANUFACTURED IN THE UK BY EMI RECORDS LIMITED" text at the end of the perimeter print. label The album includes most of The Beatles' later singles released in 1968 and 1969 together with both sides of the 1966 single "Paperback Writer".
label
OTHER ITEM
-

LABEL Silver Parlophone label with silver print
MIX STEREO
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 YEX 981-3-1-1
SIDE 2 YEX 982-1-1-1
VINYL COLOR BLACK
RECORD COMPANY'S NAME Label: EMI RECORDS LIMITED
Cover: Manufactured by EMI Records Ltd.
CENTRAL REMARK
"SOLD IN U.K."
-
RECORDING  PUBLISHED CREDIT ℗ 1979 EMI Records Limited
COVER FORM Single-pocket, fully laminated sleeve.
The inner flap was made from the front cover and glued to the back cover.
PRINTER CREDIT -  (Sleeve printed in England Manufactured in England)
COVER DESIGN/ PHOTO/ NOTES Photo: Ethan Russell and Monte Fresco
INNER SLEEVE Plain White Sleeve Type-5-2
PRODUCER George Martin
COMMENTS Black label with silver Parlophone logo and silver print. The rim text began with "ALL RIGHTS OF THE PRODUCER…" and was read from right to left around the label rim. Around the 12 'o' clock position in the rimtext the wording is: "UNAUTHORISED COPYING, HIRING, RENTING, PUBLIC PERFORMANCE AND BROADCASTING…". "MANUFACTURED IN THE UK BY EMI RECORDS LIMITED" text at the end of the perimeter print.
Matrix numbers: Side 1: YEX 981-3-1-1, Side-2: YEX 982-1-1-1.

The album was first released domestically in Britain on 11th May 1979. The album had appeared in the U.S. in 1970 and was also manufactured in Britain for export. It received a British domestic release in 1979, nearly nine years after its U.S. appearance. The album includes most of The Beatles' later singles released in 1968 and 1969 together with both sides of the 1966 single "Paperback Writer". Two rather odd and out of sequence inclusions are "Can’t Buy Me Love" and "I Should Have Known Better" both from the "A Hard Day’s Night" album that were included in place of "The Inner Light" and "Get Back" even though their respective A and B sides, "Lady Madonna" and "Don’t Let Me Down", are included.

The Beatles united for a final photographic session on 22 August 1969. This was their final group photo session.
The shoot took place in the house and grounds of Tittenhurst Park, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's home in Sunninghill near Ascot, Berkshire. The couple had moved in earlier in the month, although they had bought the 72-acre estate in May 1969.
The photo shoot took place two days after their final recording session together. The photographers were Ethan Russell and Monte Fresco, with additional pictures taken by The Beatles' assistant Mal Evans.



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