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From: 00nacoo...@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles
Subject: Re: McCartney "Unplugged"(more about the same)
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.172639.1035@bsu-ucs.uucp>
Date: 15 Jun 91 22:26:39 GMT
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In article <5...@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, stev...@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Stephen Carter) writes:
> From article <1991Jun12.10402...@udlapvms.pue.udlap.mx>, by ie74...@udlapvms.pue.udlap.mx:
>> In article <284f3573.1...@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, kjask...@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU
>> 
>> Indeed there were only 500,000 copies of unplugged pressed. 250,000 for the UK
>> and 250,000 for the States. Everyone of them individually numbered. As far as I
>> know there will be no more. BTW,I'm writing from Mexico and I wonder if someone 
> 
> Well, I checked my UK copy and it is NOT numbered.
> 
> Does that make it worth real money  :-)

Actually, according to Rolling Stone, it says(paraphrasing):that *Capitol* was
releasing only 500,000 copies on Unplugged.

Now, Capitol is the record company that releases Paulie's material in the
_United States_. Parlophone/EMI releases in Britan, Odeon(sp?)/EMI in Japan,
and so on. From what I gather, this is the way things are:

In the U.S., only 500,000 copies are being made, TOTAL. (This would explain why
no one has reported a CD number higher than 250,000 [assuming that the releases
are 1/2 CD, 1/2 cassette]. I have personally seen cassette copies as low as 
01965, 01968, and 01969). The U.S. copies are the _only_ ones numbered.

In other countries, there is no numbering system, so I assume that other
countries will/do press however many they want. The above would explain why the
U.S. releases were held up an extra 1-2 weeks. 

I hope this helps a little, at least. I tend to think that the owner on the
250,000th U.S. copy probably has the last copy (numbered, in not made.)
 
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