Early copies included an album-sized insert promoting the Beatles LP back-catalogue. The insert was a localised version of the inner sleeve produced for the UK issue. While the catalogue numbers and With The Beatles sleeve were localised, the other sleeves, including Beatles For Sale, were left in their UK livery (including 'stereo' notation which wasn't printed on Australian sleeves).
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Two points worthy of note:
1. The Magical Mystery Tour album is shown with the US catalogue number. As mentioned on the Magical Mystery Tour LP page, EMI (Australia) did not produce the LP locally until 1979, although one could buy Australian-made cassettes from 1974.
2. EMI (Australia) merely copied and modified the UK source artwork, thus local albums such as The Essential Beatles and the two Greatest Hits volumes are not listed, despite being in print at that time.
1. The Magical Mystery Tour album is shown with the US catalogue number. As mentioned on the Magical Mystery Tour LP page, EMI (Australia) did not produce the LP locally until 1979, although one could buy Australian-made cassettes from 1974.
2. EMI (Australia) merely copied and modified the UK source artwork, thus local albums such as The Essential Beatles and the two Greatest Hits volumes are not listed, despite being in print at that time.
Insert