RARITIES (UK VERSION)
EMI PSLP 261
RELEASE DATE SIDE 1 MATRIX SIDE 2 MATRIX PARTS
29 Nov 1978 SPSLP 261 A SPSLP 261 B AU
Dec 1980 SPSLP 261A-3 MAXICUT SPSLP 261 B AU
198? SPSLP 261A-3 MAXICUT SPSLP 261-B-2 OR AU
MATRIX INFORMATION

Machine Stamped - Hand Written
ORIGIN CODE CIRCULATED SLEEVE DETAILS
AUST A1 Nov 1978 'Sample Record - Not For Sale' printed on rear cover
SLEEVE INFORMATION
The first version of Rarities released in Australia was the UK version. The disc was, strictly speaking, only available to consumers in a boxed collection of original Beatles albums. However, a number of retailers across Australia, it would seem, broke up boxed sets and put Rarities on the racks for individual purchase, on account of how a good number of consumers refused to buy a boxed set containing twelve records that they either already had, or didn't want, just to get the Rarities album.

Mastered at Studios 301 utilising the Maxicut Process.
GENERAL ALBUM INFORMATION
BLACK 1-BOX B
AU261S3B
Jul 1987
BLACK 1-BOX A
AU261S3A
Apr 1982
ORANGE 1-BOX B
AU261S2A
Apr 1979
EMI GENERIC
AU261S1
29 Nov 1978
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