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Both records display surface marks, hairlines, scuffs and general signs of handling and age-related use. Labels with some wear and spindle marks. Original solid centres remain intact. The company sleeves display creasing, edge and handling wear, together with historic tape repairs. Records have not been play-tested and are therefore sold without guarantee as to playback quality.
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Two early UK Parlophone 7" singles by The Beatles, both in the less commonly encountered solid-centre format and retaining period Parlophone company sleeves. Comprising: I Want To Hold Your Hand / This Boy – Parlophone R 5084, with matrix numbers 7XCE 17559-1N / 7XCE 17560-1N, KT tax code and "Sold in U.K. Subject to Resale Price Conditions" label text. Can't Buy Me Love / You Can't Do That – Parlophone R 5114, with matrix numbers 7XCE 17657-1N / 7XCE 17658-1N, KT tax code and "Sold in U.K. Subject to Resale Price Conditions" label text. Of particular collector interest is the solid-centre configuration of both records. The overwhelming demand for Beatles singles during the height of Beatlemania resulted in EMI making use of additional outside pressing capacity, including the Oriole pressing plants, and a number of distinctive pressing variations were consequently produced. While the familiar four-prong push-out centre is encountered on large numbers of original UK Beatles singles, solid-centre examples represent a notably less commonly seen variation. Such differences in pressing manufacture, label typography, tax codes and matrix details have become an established area of interest amongst specialist Beatles record collectors. The pairing is particularly appealing in comprising two of the group's defining early singles. I Want To Hold Your Hand, released in Britain in November 1963, became one of the records most closely associated with the extraordinary growth of Beatlemania and the group's subsequent international breakthrough, while Can't Buy Me Love, released in 1964, dates from the period in which The Beatles had become an unprecedented global phenomenon. Together, the two solid-centre singles form an unusual and attractive pairing of early UK Beatles pressings, enhanced by their -1N matrix numbers, intact centres and period Parlophone company sleeves.