BEATLES 1962-1966 2LP Red Cover Apple Label 12" Vinyl LP Album

The album "1962–1966 (widely known as "The Red Album") " was compiled by Beatles manager Allen Klein, with his selections approved by the Beatles themselves. Even though the group had had success with cover versions of songs, most notably with "Twist and Shout", which made #2 on the Billboard charts, only songs composed by the Beatles themselves were included.

High Resolution Photo BEATLES 1962-1966 2LP

This album is recognised as the first Beatles compilation since their break-up on 10 April 1970. Both it and 1967–1970 were produced by Apple/EMI at least partially in response to a bootleg compilation titled Alpha Omega, which had been sold on television the previous year. Print advertising for the two records made a point of declaring them "the only authorized collection of the Beatles."

Product Information and Collector Notes

Album Packaging:

This album comes in a gatefold album cover ( aka Fold Open Cover ) and includes the two original custom inner sleeves ( red colour with black typography) with complete lyrics of all the songs by The Beatles.

Album Front Cover:

How can the album cover be distinguished from other versions of this album

The album cover , inner sleeves and labels are printed in the red colour.
There is no catalognumber on the album front cover.

Album Back Cover

How does the album back cover be different from other versions

There is NO bar-code on the album cover.
On the album backcover , near the upper right corner is the catalognr: 1A 184-05307

Inner Sleeve

This album comes with custom inner sleeves which contain production details, tracklisting, musician information, photos, artwork

Record label information:

The labels have a red background colour.
There is NO LC Code ( Label Code ( on the labels )
The Rights Society "STEMRA" is printed on the label near 8 o'clock.
The record label has two catalognrs: 1A 138-5307 and 5C 184-05307
The label's rim-text runs from 9 o'clock till 3 o'clock and is printed in English

Production & Recording Information

This 12" LP black vinyl music record comes comes in a Fold Open Cover (FOC), which is also also known as a Gatefold cover. The inner pages of this album cover contains photos, artwork, album production details and lyrics of all the songs.

This album "BEATLES 1962-1966 2LP Red Cover Apple Label" includes the original custom inner sleeve with album details, complete lyrics of all songs by and artwork/photos

The album: "BEATLES 1962-1966 2LP Red Cover Apple Label" was produced by: George Martin