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Record Sleeve

1963 (produced)
Artist/Maker
EMI Records (designer)
McBean, Angus (Photographer)

Record Sleeve: Please Please Me by The Beatles, Colour offset lithograph

Object details

Object type
Record sleeve
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Offset Colour Lithograph
Brief description
Record sleeve, 'Please Please Me' by The Beatles, Designed by EMI Studio, Photography by Angus McBean, Issued by Parlophone/EMI, 1963
Physical description
Record Sleeve: Please Please Me by The Beatles, Colour offset lithograph
Gallery label
RECORD SLEEVE: PLEASE PLEASE ME BY THE
BEATLES
Designed by the EMI studio, photography by
Angus McBean (British, born 1904)
Issued by Parlophone/EMI, 1963
Colour offset lithograph
E.2101.1-1992

This was the first Beatles LP. It stayed at number one
of the charts for 33 weeks. It was also released in the
U.S.A.; it thus provides an early example of the flow
of British culture to America. Theatre photographer
McBean's arresting framing of the Beatles in the EMI
stairwell is seen again on later albums.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2101:1-1992

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Record createdMarch 26, 2008
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O148269/record-sleeve-mcbean-angus/
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