Beatles / Please Please Me
Japan “Tour Apple Edition” LP

Apple AP - 8675

Appendices: "Red OBI”, “G/F Different Cover w/ Booklet ( inlayed inside gate-fold )" & “Inner-Bag”
( INSERT is not originally issued for this item )

Description: This is “Japan Tour Apple Edition” copy ( released in 1969 ) of their 1st album "Please Please Me" ( originally issued to commemorate their 1966 Japan tour ). The gate-fold cover is completely different from UK copy of the same album. Insert is not originally issued for this item. Instead the colorful booklet is inlayed inside gate-fold cover to show "Japanese liner notes", "English & Japanese lyrics" & "Colorful photos of their stage". It’s hard to find this copy even in our country. Scarce item from Japan to serious collector.

Side A: Please please me, Anna, I saw her standing there, Boys, Misery, Chains, Ask me why

Side B: Twist and shout, A taste of honey, Love me do, Do you want to know a secret, Baby it’s you, There’s a place, PS I love you


Condition: VG/EX+ ( Cover / Disc )


COVER: Cover is good in condition, except for minor stain-marks around the rims of back side. Light ring-wear is also on the back side. The booklet inlayed inside gate-fold is lightly scraped on its surfaces. It’s clean on the front side. Otherwise it has no tear, dent, strip & writing...OK.

DISC: Disc is excellent in condition, keeping glossy. There are a few spindle-marks on each label, with stain-marks on the label of Side B. Minor scuff marks are on the inner-groove ( not music surface ). Otherwise it has none of any scuff, scratch & hairline, which is to be rated as “EX+". No flaw on the groove of “music surface” of each side. Without the stain-marks on the label, it should be “NM”.

OBI: VG, being creased along the right rim of front. A supply-tag is still in the top of back.

INSERT: Insert is not originally issued for this item. Instead the booklet is inlayed inside gate-fold cover.

INNER-BAG: VG, being creased in corners with ring-crease on the surface of each side.