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#21. Run For Your Life / Michelle (QMSP-16389)
(Update: 11st October 2026)
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#21-3 Run For Your Life / Michelle (3rd Press / Black Label "Whole Yellow Sleeve": QMSP-16389)
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TRACK LISTING
SIDE 1
 Run For Your Life (Lennon-McCartney)
SIDE 2
 Eleanor Rigby (Lennon-McCartney)
RELEASE DATE
 1967?/Third Press? (First Press:14th February1966)
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sleeve yellow_back label label label
FRONT COVER CLOSE UP LABEL CLOSE UP
sleeve sleeve label label
3rd. Picture Sleeve: Catalog number is in top right. "PARLOPHON" logomark was printed at the left corner of the front cover. "PARLOPHON" logomark and "MADE IN ITALY" were printed at the center of the label.
OTHER ITEM
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RECORD LABEL
 PARLOPHON / Flat black label with silver print
CATALOG NUMBER
 QMSP-16389
VINYL COLOR
 BLACK
MATRIX No. SIDE 1 XEX 580   7   T1   14  2  66
SIDE 2 XEX 579   7   T1   14  2  66
MIX
 MONO
SLEEVE 3rd. press (1966): Back cover is whole yellow, and has the words "MICHELLE disco "GIALLO" dei BEATLES.
LABEL 1st Press (14th. Feb. 1966): Black Parlophon label with spherical logo and silver print, BIEM / BIEM, Small title on A-Side
CREDIT
 DISCHI PARLOPHON CARISCH S.p.A. MILANO
COMMENTS
 According to "Mr. Luc Porte's Beatles page",
Label:
  • 1st Press (14th. Feb. 1966): Black Parlophon label with spherical logo and silver print, BIEM / BIEM, Small title on A-Side
  • 2nd. Press (1966): Black Parlophon label with spherical logo and silver print, BIEM / BIEM, Bigger title on A-Side
Sleeve;

  • 1st Press (14 February 1966): No Yellow Flag (BANDIERA GIALLA*) on the front cover. The back cover lists 21 singles.

  • 2nd Press (1966): The Yellow Flag was added to the printed design on the front cover. The back cover still lists 21 singles.

  • 3rd Press (1966): The back cover is entirely yellow, with the words "MICHELLE disco 'GIALLO' dei BEATLES" printed on it.

  • 4th Press (1966): Similar to the 3rd pressing, but with a tab-cut sleeve.

On both side of the disk, "BIEM" logo in the box and matrix number were printed at the left side of the label.

*Bandiera Gialla (Yellow Flag)
"Bandiera Gialla" was a popular Italian radio music program broadcast by RAI from 1965 to 1970. Young audience members voted for their favorite songs by raising yellow flags.
Record companies used the yellow flag symbol on picture sleeves to promote records featured on the program. The flag appeared either as a sticker or as part of the printed sleeve design.
Several Italian Beatles singles from the mid-1960s were issued with this symbol. However, the presence of the yellow flag does not necessarily indicate a later pressing.
>https://www.teche.rai.it/2025/10/bandiera-gialla/

The yellow flag was added to the printed design on later pressings of:

  • We Can Work It Out
  • Michelle
  • Paperback Writer
  • Eleanor Rigby
  • The Ballad of John and Yoko

The yellow flag was printed on the picture sleeves from the first pressing of:

  • Strawberry Fields Forever


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