Originally Posted by USAZorro
I thought that they were all mono up to Sgt. Pepper.
Originally Posted by
Bam42685
I was just about to post a picture of my Sgt. Pepper LP before I got this far into the thread... My Rubber Soul is mono but my friend has a stereo version. It's a US version. He has a stereo Help too. I'm not sure about anything before that.
They're re-issue's then, after Apple got distribution rights they re-issued the original albums in stereo.
USAZorro is correct, the original releases are all mono up til Sgt. Pepper. The studios they recorded in weren't equipped for Stereo until then.