"MOTHER"
b/w  "WHY"
JOHN LENNON - PLASTIC ONO BAND

APPLE 1827
ISSUED: 12/28/70


PICTURE SLEEVE & ACCOMPANYING 45 SINGLE

PRODUCED IN VERY LIMITED QUANTITY AND ONE OF THE RAREST SOLO BEATLES PICTURE SLEEVES

CONDITION: SLEEVE NM "AS NEW" / RECORD M- (UNPLAYED)
ITEM#: JL071
PRICE: ------


 
  DESCRIPTION
(ACTUAL IMAGES)

ALTHOUGH "MOTHER" WAS NOT THE MOST COMMERCIAL SONG ON THE "JOHN LENNON / PLASTIC ONO BAND" ALBUM, IT WAS THE MOST POWERFUL. PERHAPS THAT IS WHY JOHN PICKED THE SONG FOR RELEASE AS A SINGLE EVEN THOUGH HE KNEW ITS APPEAL WOULD BE LIMITED. THE 45 WAS NOT RELEASED IN ENGLAND.

FOR THE SINGLE, THE SONG WAS SHORTENED FROM ITS 5:29 LENGTH TO 3:55 BY EDITING OUT THE OPENING BELLS AND FADING OUT SHORTLY AFTER THE LAST VERSE. WHILE THE ALBUM VERSION HAS SLIGHT STEREO SEPARATION, THE SINGLE VERSION IS MONO. THE RECORD'S B-SIDE, "WHY", WAS PULLED FROM THE ALBUM "YOKO ONO / PLASTIC ONO BAND".

IN THE U.S., APPLE PREPARED A STRAIGHT CUT PICTURE SLEEVE, PRINTED BY QUEENS LITHO, AND WAS PRODUCED IN A VERY LIMITED QUANTITY, MAKING IT ONE OF THE RAREST SOLO BEATLES PICTURE SLEEVES TO FIND. THIS EXAMPLE IS A STUNNING NEAR MINT "AS NEW", WITH SHARP EDGES, NO RINGWEAR..

THE SLEEVE IS ACCOMPANIED BY THE SCRANTON DARK GREEN APPLE 45 SINGLE (APP1827.02S(af), SPIZER),  WITH THE "MACLEN MUSIC, LTD. U.K." CREDIT, AND HAS THE "MFD. BY APPLE" PERIMETER PRINT ON THE A-SIDE. THE RECORD IS IN UNPLAYED "AS NEW" MINT MINUS CONDITION.

    

    

 

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