AUEP70043YBA.a

S1: Northern Songs
S2: Northern Songs
AUEP70043YBA.a / Help! / Yellow-Black 'A' / variation a
YELLOW/BLACK - STYLE 'A' - ROYALTY STAMPS
AUEP70043YBA.b

Royalty stamps same as AUEP70043YBA.a
Different font of all other non-templated text elements
AUEP70043YBA.b / Help! / Yellow-Black 'A' / variation b
AUEP70043YBA.c

S1: NORTHERN SONGS
S2: NORTHERN SONGS

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AUEP70043YBA.c / Help! / Yellow-Black 'A' / variation c
YELLOW/BLACK - STYLE 'B' - NO ROYALTY STAMPS
AUEP70043YBB.a

AUEP70043YBB.a / Help! / Yellow-Black 'B' / variation a
AUEP70043YBB.b

Different font for matrix numbers and tracklists (both labels)
AUEP70043YBB.b / Help! / Yellow-Black 'B' / variation b
SILVER/BLACK - STYLE 'C' - EMI MUSIC GROUP - AUSTRALASIA
AUEP70043SBC.a / Help! / Silver-Black 'C' / variation a
AUEP70043SBC.a
AUEP70043YBB.c

Italicised matrix numbers and tracklists (both labels)
AUEP70043YBB.c / Help! / Yellow-Black 'B' / variation c
AUEP70043YBB.d

Music publ. is 'ATV Northern Songs'
Different font of non-templated text elements
AUEP70043YBB.d / Help! / Yellow-Black 'B' / variation d
GENERAL EP INFORMATION
While released over a period of some eight months, Help!, Norwegian Wood and Penny Lane actually all originated on the same day, 22 September 1967. All three EPs were passed for press on 26 September 1967, and all three were mastered from tape on 4 October 1967. This approach of 'loading up releases' was not that uncommon with EMI (Australia), indeed, the two Greatest Hits volumes were created in much the same fashion.

Why EMI (Australia) chose to dig two plus years into the group's back catalogue for this EP is anyone's guess, although it's quite possible that they wanted to leverage off the success of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. We do know they had a copy of the US Help! LP, as the cover art was taken from the US gatefold sleeve. In any event, the public largely overlooked the release.

The EP remained in print until December 1978. In June 1979, it, along with all unique-to-Australia 70000-series Beatles EPs, were recut and reissued with updated artwork. For the recut, EMI (Australia) went back to the original mono EP tape, meaning this is one of the few reissued EPs that play in true mono, rather than stereo, or folddown. This reissue first appeared in September 1979.
AUEP70043YBB.e

Music publ. is 'Northern Songs'
Different font for catalogue number
AUEP70043YBB.e / Help! / Yellow-Black 'B' / variation e