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 Sleeve”
( 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". Disc is not red but black. 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 and light ring-wear on upper portion of back side. It’s creased and torn short in the middle of left-rim of back side ( See photos ). It’s clean in the front side and inside gate-fold. Otherwise it has no dent, strip, stain & writing...OK.

DISC: Disc looks nearly TOP in condition, keeping glossy. There are several spindle-marks on each label, with stain-marks on each label. Minor scuff marks are on the inner groove ( not music surface ). Otherwise it has none of any scuff, scratch & hairline, which can be rated as “NM". Though it’s slightly warped on its surfaces, it doesn’t affect its play or sound. Then it totally rates as “EX+”. Anyway, no flaw on the groove of “music surface” of each side. Very clean disc, we guarantee you.

OBI: VG+, being lightly rippled on the surface of back side. A tiny crease and tear is in the middle of left-rim of back side. 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 SLEEVE: VG, being creased on the surface of each side.