Danish Beatles Singles Discography

A Hard day's night / Things we said today,  Parlophone R 5160
Released 1964.

front yellow front back
First pressing sleeve with  the very rare black/yellow sleeve variation. (See note) Front on all later versions as the above black/yellow/white sleeve. This one did also appear with 1st generation label style. Backs on all version as the first pressing but with various opening cuts.


label1 label2 3 press label
 label 3
First pressing
 (1964)
1st generation label style.
 Second pressing
(1965)
2nd generation label style with "Recording first published..."		  Third pressing
(1965)
2nd generation label style without "Recording first published..." but with big "P" wich only appeared on labels in 1965 (rare).
 Fourth or later pressing
(1965-68)
2nd generation label style without "Recording first published..." and with small "p".
Note: The early Beatles single picture sleeves in Denmark (and especially in Norway and Sweden) came in a number of colour variations. Not because of some marketing gimmick but because the printing works used the colour that happend to be in the printing machine while printing new editions of the sleeves.