The Beatles RAREST Vinyl Misprints & Where To Find Them 

This topic is a glorious rabbit hole. Thanks Andrew. I’m in the process of securing a 1st NZ pressing of A Hard Day’s Night - there are multiple printing errors but the main one is on the spine - A Hard Night’s Day. Almost hard to believe it made it through however it’s the third one I’ve seen. If you haven’t come across before I’m happy to email an image once I have it in my hands.

Love this video. I'm always overjoyed to find a misprint lp. One I have is a U.S. copy of Abbey Road that has a side 2 cut apple with no printing whatsoever. When I found it, I bought it on the spot. I've never seen another one like it.

The closest to a Help error I could offer is that my 2014 mono box's Sgt Pepper has the Help label on side two, which was kind of alarming when I unboxed it.

One of my favourite videos so far! Nice to see the 'no text labels' being featured!

Great video. I always harp on it but it’s always a part of your work I don’t see others point out and it’s worth doing so: your attention to detail when editing (adding the stock footage, looks like you added some foley sound to them as well, clever/humorous/insightful cutaways, and a great format of video which each of your “chapters” being easily defined chunks of the video. This, of course, is the cherry on top to the ice cream sundae of Beatles knowledge you throw our way each week. Your work is not in vein and I hope the channel continues to grow. Keep up the stellar work!

3:49 There's A Place A Secret. That sounds like an interesting song.

Another excellent video Andrew. I've been waiting for this one for a long time. Thanks very much. I have most of the errors but some I didn't know about. Thanks again.

In 1968 i bought the Hey Jude single on Apple played it and Revolution was on both sides

Fascinating stuff, as usual, Andrew. I was surprised to hear that such trivial errors can be highly sought after. Pulled out a bunch of my records to see if I had any of the errors, but no such luck.

Early Italian copies of Please Please Me (issued here simply as "The Beatles") have "There's a PLANCE" on the back cover, whilst the label for the "Hey Jude" album from the same country of issue has "PEPERBACK Writer" amongst the tracks.

Love your work Andrew My Monday mornings always start with your videos

Super interesting Andrew. Good topic. Enjoyed watching it. Thanks.

Again very fun video. There are so many errors through out the years and the various pressing. I have a copy of The Beatles Red Album from I believe 1977 with the blue labels on Capitial. It's still in the shrink with the hype sticker. I got it for $9.00, and it's in mint condition. it was a lucky find. Again thanks, Laddy.

Great, great, great!! Looking forward to the next one already.

Very fascinating, Andrew! Thank you for putting in your time in producing these episodes. Not a printing error, but my stereo copy of Something New came in a mono labeled album cover. It was purchased new in 1975.

You make my Sunday mornings Andrew! Here on the west coast of Florida, that’s when your videos pop up. Cheers mate!

Loved this episode!!!

A treasure trove of anomalies. Thanks for another great video. Now back to the shelf to check to see if I actually have any of these ...

Never had a desire to collect label misprints. It would have expanded the collection exponentially. However, I do have a UK Mono White album where the cover rim reads Mono only (no stereo) and side 4 is in full stereo. Label is Mono, but the deadwax starts with YEX. So I kept that one.

“He’s a big teaser”…🎶🎶 Great show! This is the stuff dreams are made of! I always looked for misprints even before it a collectible thing to do! A lovely part of human error! Love it! Thanks again. I had trouble finding the show earlier today (Saturday) but here you are now…Sunday in the wee hours! 👍💚🎶

Great vídeo again, Andrew! Congratulations.

EMI trademark juxtapositions were amazingly common from the late 60s onwards, and it's clear to me that as far back as 1967 they were wanting to get rid of having so many brands in operation. The main manifestation of this was the introduction of the red and brown EMI label in 1973 but lest anyone forget, EMI had tried to drop individual labels in mid-1967 in favour of just putting EMI on the sleeve front. The labels still appeared on the sleeve rears and the records themselves, but it seems they were trying to phase them out. But at the start of 1968 this policy was reversed. Probably because of the pending launch of Harvest after having a heads up about Philips' plans for Vertigo and Decca already having their Deram label for "prog" artists. Anyway, the cachet that Parlophone and Columbia had was well on the wane and by the end of The Beatles' original catalogue was, I think, already seen as an anachronism by the bright young hopefuls now working for EMI. Parlophone wasn't even going to get a one box EMI label redesign until the Beatles mono reissues in late 69. Columbia and HMV had already received theirs at the start of the year which is why you can find Columbia LPs with a one box label that still state "SOLD IN U.K...." albeit in the rim text. Anyway, from that point on it seems there was a general lack of care; a cassette of Hollies Greatest I have from its original run in 1969 has a Stateside logo instead of Parlophone, and a Shadows Greatest cassette having Parlophone instead of Columbia (and I'm not talking about a latter day Warner reissue where that would actually now be correct). Wings Wild Life, when issued as part of the Fame catalogue in 1985, came with two box EMI Parlophone labels but with a Fame catalogue number, rather than the Fame label design or even the original photo labels the album had at the time of original release.

So much new information and a great reference to dip back into. This I guess would be a mispressing rather than misprint, but I have an 80s stereo Yellow submarine lp (sleeve and labels), but pressed with the mono side 1 - presumably a mix up when they were reissuing the mono LPs in the early 80s.

Awesome as always, thank you.

On my German pressing of " Revolver," song from George Harrison " I want to tell you," is mispressed " I want to love you." But someone told me they pressed many of those. And have U.K.export of " Abbey Road," with mispressed sides. Side one is on side two,and opposite. Yesterday i listened to my German press and it' was cracking on " Oh,Darling.." 😎 Cheers Young Master Andrew good video. And you go to the Beatles convention in Liverpool,there' s one in August.🇧🇲

Hi Andrew, Another brilliant video. I was lucky enough to be a member of the official fan club in 1970 and was sent a copy of "From Then To You". Although not a misprint my copy has the labels transposed Side 1 label is on Side 2 and vice versa Considering the album was allegedly compiled using Bettina Roses' personal flexi-discs I think it warrants a CD release for completeness.

Great in-depth look into these records! I only own two, being the missing hyphen on the Abbey Road label and the misprints on Hey Jude. Just to note, there are 2 different variations of the first pressings of Hey Jude, and both have spelling errors. Of course, there is the 1st pressing that has the “Paper Back” and “Revolutions” errors, but I also have a second variation that has Revolutions corrected to “Revolution,” but still contained the “Paper Back Writer” error. It wasn’t until the 3rd pressing from 1973 was when it was corrected, and the label was now a pale green apple.

Wonderful video Andrew. Many Thanks, Cheers!

It’s bean a night hard day’s😉🪲😃 Great video today Andrew, I really enjoyed watching! Very interesting and fun! can’t wait to watch your next video about theBitels🥳keep it Poppin🍾

Another super video Andrew, so professional, well done Sir 😎👍👍

Fascinating and informative. I purchased Sgt Pepper in Hong Kong in 67. My first Beatle album. First pressing and manufactured in Singapore. The error is the back cover. The images of John,Paul,George and Ringo are in double vision. The lyrics and credits all normal. Still have it. I came across a Revolver with the Apple logo some years back in NZ (a NZ pressing too) A Help Capital label single back in the UK purchased from a Bargain bin. All fine except for the words in brackets (From the fourthcoming film Eight Arms To Hold You) which of course was the original working title for Help. Evidently Capital at the time were too impatient for 100% confirmation. Album cover errors would be another fantastic topic to cover. Really impressed with your depth of knowledge.😎👌

Nothing better than going to bed at night that wee bit wiser about collectibles! Found this clip particularly enjoyable as i paused each time Andrew asks us if we can notice the errors to find them myself! Edit: Good job the BFS label typo didn't have a T instead of an L!!!

Yeah! I've got a UK stereo copy of SPLHCB with the "." misprint in "SOLD IN.U.K." Woohoo, I was hoping to see it here! I agree, it's super esoteric, but it's fun.

Excellent video Andrew, full nerd level but very interesting 🤓😬👍

🔥THNX! very much as always🔥

Nice to see my Retro Assets packs being put to good use.

As just another Beatles fanatic , born in the year of their grand U.S. invasion , I truly love coming here and feeling like an absolute novice when it comes to learning about every tidbit of The Beatles and their music. The program as well as the information experts that comment here are truly the best! As a new follower I must say , I am just as big of a fan to everything that goes down on this program as the boyz themselves. So long live the boyz , this program and all that happens here. History is being made here. Just fab! 🍏🍏🍏🍏 Be well everyone and greetings from the great state of Ohio! A standing ovation to you always Andrew.

Having invested lots of money I have many of these variations. The flip side of course is the sleeve variations, tri fold, bi fold, no fold. laminated and so on. Mono Stereo indicator position, typeface and so on. Another good video Andrew

Andrew, if you were to, and you may just, USA misprint type errors you’d need to do a two or three parter, lol!! As always love your videos, as I’m always learning something new. Oh…have the UK original mono XEX pressing of "Revolver". Cost me a little over $300 US.

Great video. I’m away to check all my Beatles albums.

Another great video, really enjoyed this one, There are a couple of Help uk pressings with small errors that I have come across, a 1969 final yellow and black stereo with a print plate error on track another girl where the full E looks like I , I , first thought it might of been rubbed of over time but I have seen a couple of other copies with the same error. And there is a stereo one box with a spacing error on the track dizzy miss lizzy and Williams.

I can’t remember where the switch was, but it was either that the back cover got it wrong or the label on the LP was wrong: A U.S. copy of the RINGO album, which I bought in 1974, shortly after it was released, listed Randy Newman’s “Have You Seen My Baby?” as “Hold On.” That is, the label on the disc differed from what the back cover called it. The mistake made sense, because both the phrase “Hold on” and the phrase “Have You Seen My Baby?” are sung several times in the song. It’s beyond a printer’s error. Someone who knew the words to the song made the mistake.

Great video Andrew! It seems Capitol Records here in the US have a difficult time with the spelling of 'Raccoon'. I have an LA 2nd pressing on Apple and an '86 pressing on Capitol of The White Album - both are misspelled 'Racoon' on the label.

Great video. I just remember that I have several albums with those kind of errors because English is a foreign language in Mexico. I also remember that I have a copy of Rubber Soul with the labels switched. I will check my albums again.

Fab vid thanks indeedy. Danny

Nice one ☺️

I have an artist friend! He loves to work in the style of waxography and also draws portraits of all the members of the Beatles! He just paints portraits in an unusual way, takes a brush and dips it in ordinary water, so you won’t see anything on the canvas because the canvas is dark, but after sketching the water silhouette, he just takes it and sprinkles sand or flour on wet contours! Incredible masterpiece portraits are coming out!

Hey Andrew, Ruben from Argentina here. There's a very rare and unique misprint in my country. Very early pressings of Day Tripper single were translated and labeled as "Equivocación de un día" rather than the later corrected "Vacación de un día". Funny thing is that the word "Equivocación" means "mistake" so it's kind of a confesion. It was out just one week and then retrieved to the label for correction, very hard to find and ultra rare and collectible nowadays. I have one for sale if you are interested. Cheers

I gotta say, i dig the typography of ReVOLUTION 9, would have been a more fitting way to write it consdering the chaotic nature of the song.

Australia also has some of these misprints, such as the “Songs from the film A Hard Days Night” being used on side 2, and Rocky Raccoon being misspelled on Australian White Album cassette copies.

Great video again. Is there a Revolver box set coming?

Hi Andrew. My first British stereo edition of With the Beatles in the rights of "You Really Got a Hold on Me", appears as Domion Music and not as Dominion Music. Fantastic video. Greetings from Colombia.👍👍👍

Great video, better start looking at my albums a little closer

Great video Andrew and very interesting. I have a 2012 issue of Help that has got side one pressed on both sides. The labels are for side one and two but it plays the same on both sides. I'm guessing it's not that valuable (yet) but I wonder how many are out there?

Great, and interesting, video Andrew. It would be good if you did one on rare covers like the black and silver stereo on Rubber Soul and the outline stereo on A Hard Day's Night..

“A little too deep into the weeds” great quote!

I see what you did from 2:09 - 2:18 😉 Very Clever!

Maybe you could go the Uk singles next? I have the ‘All you Need is Love’ without the ‘taken from the Our World TV transmission’ line or whatever it says - and I also have Hey Jude but the B side label says it’s Mary Hopkin - it’s not though!

This is an interesting issue. So, please, keep 'em coming. Bye for now, Nelio.

I'll need to check your videos if you've already covered Capital Records printing errors. I was born 1953 in Indiana known as the mid-west here in the states. I had a paper route and made extra money delivering newspapers. A lot of that 'extra' money went to buying Rock n Roll records in the 50s and early 60s such as. Elvis, Buddy Holly and some rockabilly songs. This is a small town and I'd have to drive up to Indy and purchase my vinyl there. (It's true, I had to walk uphill 6 miles through the snow, both ways to school') I've purchased multiple copies of all the Beatles LP during the early pressings and I might have a unique one. Thanks for the video!

hey andrew, another amazing video as always. i actually purchased a nowhere man EP about a year ago which has nowhere man twice on the b-side which is meant to feature michelle/you won’t see me. have you seen similar situations for any other uk beatles EPs?

12:33 That Korean label is hilarious 😂 "Back in Us?", "Sgt. Paper's Lonely Hurt Club Band"?

Another labelling oversight I recall seeing examples of are early Yellow & Black labels that still had the old 33 1/3 indication in the position where it would have been on the Black & Gold label. Something which IIRC occurred on a number of EMI titles around the time of switchover. Off topic again, but somewhere in my collection I have a Black & Gold Parlophone (non-Beatles, I'd have to delve in and check which one) where the text is in silver rather than the gold print used for the template. Also as a vaguely related aside, I have both a 50s style Gold on Brown Parlophone-Odeon title and a late 50s style Cyan and Silver Columbia title where the SOLD IN U.K... text has been printed onto the original label at a later date. You can tell by the differing colours and slight angle and the way the ink shines differently when held up to the light. Another example of how "EMI were a company who didn't like to throw anything away" and that in some cases, excess label stock got used over a period of years, which sheds doubt that an earlier label variation always indicates an earlier pressing. May have been a case of over-ordering in the first place... Something more likely to happen with a Richard Tauber album than a Beatles one!

Hi Andrew! Great video! I have an original stereo "Yellow Submarine" ("sold in UK...) misspelled "YELLOW SUBMARiNE" with a lowercase "i".

Brilliant video again Andrew and good information , I've got a Lady maddona single which has the Lady maddona label on both sides instead of The Inner Light on the B side so I don't know if it's a rare record.

A bit out of scope for this video but there was also Paul's 1984 single briefly labelled as No More LONLEY Nights.

I had a sgt peppers album which was a misprint the centre picture was like purple shades i guess they can only be just one like this in the whole world

I enjoy watching your videos. i have an interesting one. I purchased back in the 90s a Mono UK Sgt Pepper album. I go to play it and side one is in stereo and side 2 is in mono.Have you heard of other ones like that.

Have some 80s stereo pressings misprints - Beatles For Sale with a date of 1984 and the songwriting credit for Tomorrow Never Knows missing from Revolver.

That’s my Australian With The Beatles! (Right, Andrew?) I’ve made it to the big time!

When John Lennon died I was 10 years old. My older brother at that time was watching TV on which there was a report about this event and tells me that John Lennon has died! I asked him who is this? He said that the musician of the Beatles! I did not attach any importance to this since I was very small and had no idea what the Beatles were, and even more so John Lennon! My acquaintance with the Beatles happened quite by accident, my classmate asked me to buy the Beatles album A hard days night in the Melodiya music store, which was released for the first time in our country of the USSR by the Melodiya company, since I live not far from this store, I bought this disc and gave it to a classmate! I began to ask him what kind of group? to which he answered me English group The Beatles and said that its founder was John Lennon! I began to remember that six years ago I had already heard the name John Lennon and remembered the reportage about the death of John Lennon 1980. I immediately decided to go to the Melodiya store and buy myself a vinyl disc A hard days night for familiarization! It happened in 1986! And from that time to the present, I have been a lover and connoisseur of the incredible phenomenon The Beatles. At the moment I have the entire collection and discography of the Beatles. Some of their songs I enjoy singing and performing on the guitar! Thanks to my classmate that in 1986 he asked me to buy him the disc A hard days night from which my fateful acquaintance with this great band took place!

Hi Andrew, I have what I now know is a rare first UK pressing of Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967, Mono with the Album Misprint on the cover for the song With a little help from my friends, as A little help from my friends with incorrect lyrics, it’s also in Mint condition PMC 7027 XEX637/638. I’m keen to find out what it could be worth. It was my mothers album, I think never played and she was friends with Ringo Star when young as her best friend dated him. Ironically she was forbidden to date him by her father as he said he is a no hoper musician who will be poor always. Boy did he get it wrong. So this album may have even been given to her by Ringo. I also had the honour of meeting George Harrison at a gig I sang in for the Grand Prix drivers in Adelaide. So there are many reasons why this album is so special. ❤

On the Columbia Revolver label shown in your video, does it list 'Love You To' as 'Love You Too" or am I seeing things? Great video!

Something I learned quite early on in my working career, was that if you are given things to type or typeset, and the copy you're given is clearly wrong, you mustn't try and correct it, you have to put exactly what is given and wait for the client to spot the mistake so a new job can be submitted. Crazy but true, and I'm sure the various companies EMI used to print their labels were no different. It's strange that I SHOULD HAVE KNOW BETTER has a space where the N should be, as if it WAS typeset but someone thought "I Know Better" and got out his scalpel and chipped off the N block from the stamper thinking he was being clever. The white Apple label in 87 is a strange one because clearly there had been competing instructions being given at the time as to how to brand the digital reissues. Whether to brand Beatles records as Parlophone, Apple, both or neither was a wrangle that had been going on between Apple and EMI since 1970.

My uk copies please revolver sgt white are mistake free great video

cheers Andrew very helpful vid as per, Henry here, the only problem with these is that i forget i have some of them & sell them in error lol, i can only think of one you may have missed that is the BFS 1 box where some info is missed, I think it is the line of text that includes the stereo indicator on the label, i'd have to check to confirm from my copy. The other thing of course would be sleeve variations which of course are mostly not technically errors but defo could make up a whole video to themselves

I have a copy of the Blue Album from the 70's or early 80's. All the labeling is correct. However, Side 3 has the music from Side 3 from the Red Album.

When I was six years old, I got the Capitol release of Revolver that had a misprint with, I Want to Tell You, mistakenly written by Lennon/McCartney, or sung by Lennon, I believe. It's in my storage unit.

What a fascinating video, Andrew - I shall have to go through all my Beatles albums now and check the labels! The mispressing I have is Sgt Pepper ,which I bought in 1971. Although the label says 'PMC 7027', it's actually a stereo pressing! The back covers states that it is mono too. I still have the receipt for the record too - it cost £2.15 back then!

I also noticed that on the Beatles For Sale "I'm a Losser" label, Jerry Leiber's name is misspelled "Lieber".

I have The Beatles 1962 - 1966 (The Red Album) . The b&w photo on the inside gatefold is printed upside down. 🙃

Hi, I have a copy of Help, it’s a first pressing (Variant A) and the labels are swapped around! Side 2 label on side 1 and side 1 label on side 2. Very strange indeed!

I have the beatles white album in white vinyl that has the wrong label on one side but the songs are all right on the album. I bought it in Nebraska in the 70's

On the errored label of “Please Please me” the fourth track title “do you want to know a secet” the “a secret” line is even placed in between the reversed track 6 and 5

In the first example the song title for Do you want to know a secret is split. The words a secret appear after another song title.

Sgt. Paper's Lonely Hurt Club Band! and that's a batsh-t tracklist in the first place. i want to know everything about those early korean beatles records!

We would love to hear your thoughts on the rumored Revolver boxset out October 😭

I have a copy of Badfinger's _Straight Up_ lp (USA pressing) with a blank apple label on the A-side.

Just came across a "Beatles Again" 1970 french pressing (made in italy) with Paperback Writer mispelled "Peperback Writer", no idea how much it's worth!!

There are some errors that were never fixed in the United States. On the Hard Day's Night album look for the track, I cry instead. And on the Let It Be album, look for the track I dig a Pony. These were never changed over the years, but it's funny to still see them in general.

„Forthcoming box set“ …….???!!! 😱🤩 Is there actually gonna be one for Revolver?? Don’t tease now!

The HEY JUDE album shown here has an exclamation mark to make it HEY JUDE! - which seems to have happened in a lot of markets.

I have the White Album A3012854 with Raccoon spelled as Racoon. Nice to have that copy.

I had a copy of magical mystery tour probably in 1977... All my records were stolen including this one… But I'm just curious if you ever saw magical mystery tour with the same label on both sides… I wish I still had that!

I used to have a Taiwanese copy of "Beatles For Sale" that had many silly typos. Found it at a yard sale in NJ (of course).

I have cover only for" A Collection Of Beatles Oldies" that states Stereo & Mono on front and back and also the back cover photo is in black and white. Any clue as to where it's from ?

I spotted the first error but in a different way, There's Place A Secret, which is now a song that I will write.

On some of the original stereo pressings of Abbey Road, is it normal for the songs at the end of each side to cut out prematurely?

At around 6:55 I believe 'Love You Too' should read 'Love You To'.

Side 1 on the Parlophone label Hey Jude LP (P-CPCS 106) lists Paper Back Writer, but Revolution without the s.