Beatles: Help! (1965, UK, MT Tax Code, OG Inner, Disc EX) [PARLOPHONE]

Why you'll love it

The label carries the MT purchase-tax code, which Beatles collectors look for on early pressings of the LPs from With the Beatles to Rubber Soul. The disc grades EX, with its original inner sleeve.

This edition

• Parlophone PMC 1255, mono
• UK, 1965
• Black and yellow Parlophone label with The Gramophone Co. Ltd. rim text
• MT purchase-tax code stamped on the label
• Disc: EX, original inner sleeve

About the album

Recording began in February 1965 at EMI's Studio Two, with George Martin producing. Paul McCartney cut Yesterday on 14 June, alone with an acoustic guitar, and Martin then added a string quartet. Help! came out in the UK on 6 August 1965. Side one holds the seven songs from the film, including Help! and Ticket to Ride, and side two holds the rest.

UK records of the period carried a two-letter purchase-tax code that changed with the tax rate. On paper MT covered the first half of 1963 and KT took over in July 1963. EMI kept stamping MT on early Beatles pressings well after that, which is how this LP came to carry it.

Tracklist

On Parlophone (cat# PMC 1255), first out in 1965.