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Label Apple
Catalogue No.'s R 6422
RP 6422    (7" Picture Disc)
CDR 6422 (C.D.)
TCR 6422 (Cassette single)
Country of Origin England
Release Date 4th December 1995
U.K. Chart Detail :
Entry Date :16th December 1995
Highest Position :2
Weeks in Chart :8 Weeks
Detail : The twenty-eighth official EMI release
By 1995 standards, Beatlemania returns ! ... this single sold 120,000 copies in it's first week.
Unfortunately though, it is kept off the top spot by Michael Jackson's "Earth Song".

On the Apple label, but this is a silver pressed label ... yeeuck.

There was also a picture disc single featuring the same two tracks coupled.
Also the same two tracks on a two track cassette single was issued.

Plus, there is a c.d. "single" which adds two bonus tracks.
I Saw Her Standing There
The 1963 master of this track was Take 1, with the count-in from Take 9 edited to the beginning.
Issued officially for the first time is the full Take 9.
This Boy
An eavesdrop into the recording session as presented here are incomplete takes 12 and 13.


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