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HER MAJESTY

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LP

Company: no manufacturer listed
Matrix Number: P-0002
Release date: December 1981

Country: Holland

 

SIDE A

1. MAXWELL’S SILVER HAMMER
2. WHEN I’M SIXTY-FOUR/SPEAK TO ME
3. GIMME SOME TRUTH
4. POLYTHENE PAM/INSTRUMENTAL
5. MAGGIE MAE/INSTRUMENTAL
6. HER MAJESTY
7. “THERE YOU ARE EDDIE”
8. DIGGIN’ MY POTATOES / ROCK ISLAND LINE

 

SIDE B

9. HOT AS SUN
10. EVERY NIGHT
11. LET IT BE
12. “WAKE UP IN THE MORNING”
13. ON THE ROAD TO MARRAKESH
14. “WON’T YOU PLEASE SAY GOODBYE”
15. ALL SHOOK UP / YOUR TRUE LOVE

 

SOUND QUALITY: VG-mono
SOURCE:
1 to 3, 11 to 15: Twickenham Studios, January 1969
4 to 10: Apple Studios, January 1969

 

COMMENTS

The availablity of the entire January 1969 Twickenham and Apple reel to reel tapes allowed bootleggers to release various LPs, with what they considered to be "the best". HER MAJESTY is notable for a few tracks. John’s Give Me Some Truth is present, and so are Beatles versions of two songs which later appeared on Paul's first solo LP (Hot As Sun and Every Night). Some of the tracks had previously appeared, but here they are in their best (for the time) quality.

RELEASES

The first pressing had a simple soft paper sleeve open on three sides, with a b/w picture. This was quickly repressed on a color cover by the same manufacturers. Indeed, for each release the producer had to prepare the cover by hand. We asked him, and this is what he told us: "Those were the days before DTP desktop publishing. We used scissors, cuttings and glue. You can clearly see that the letters were rubbed from a plastic letter sheet on a Sunday afternoon at the school where I worked. The first cover was done just like “Complaint to the Queen” LP was done. Probably in the same period. You can tell the similarity. Photos were taken from the Let It Be book. I had stickers with that "The Beatles" logo with the large T. In the seventies bootlegs often had these one page sheet inserts. I used the same logo for the hand operated flexi disc envelope. So as far as we were concerned there was nothing wrong with that. I guess Her Majesty sold better than Complaint so we needed a reprint of the cover. Indeed by this time we could afford another and better printing method. On the other hand I now realise that we made a big step forward, not knowing how beautiful covers would become a few years later: Beeb, Paris (Gauloise), Sessions."

In 1982 HER MAJESTY was copied in inferior quality by Circle Records and included in the 2 LP set WONDERFUL PICTURE OF YOU. In 1983 it was rereleased by Great Live Concerts on matrix 15803 as SWEET APPLE TRAX VOL. 3 (together with a copy of the unreleased GET BACK LP). In the mid-1980’s Strawberry Records derived its plate 15803-RR from the G.L.C. release and included the 2 LP’s in the 6 colored vinyl LP box APPLE TRAX, also distributed in the single LPs series APPLEMANIA. All these records, not being simple repressings or copies of the original LP, are not treated here, but will have their own entry.​

INTEREST. Like all LPs containing January 1969 material, back in 1981 this was an essential record to own for Beatles fans and collectors. The first version is rare and, from a collector's point of view, still quite desirable. The version on colored sleeve an be occasionally found in the second hand vinyl shops and web sites. ***/**

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