Rare test pressing for the ‘Satisfaction’ EP released in Australia in 1969. Pressed by EMI in Sydney Australia, with EMI labels. Tracklist side A: As Tears Go By / (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction. Tracklist side B: Fortune Teller / 19th Nervous Breakdown. Matrix side A: 7XDEC 1242. Matrix side B: 7XDEC 1243.
COLLECTORS NOTE: There are only two known Rolling Stones test pressings from Australia in the 1960s. This is one of them. The other example is shown in the entry for ‘Ruby Tuesday EP’ (1967). No other items have been documented yet or are known to circulate (but they must exist, surely?). A standard practice at many record companies in the 1960s was to destroy test pressings after listening to them. Employees at Decca Australia must have been incredibly scrupulous in doing this! This is the only reason I can think that other 1960s Rolling Stones test pressings from Australia have not emerged. I am very fortunate to have these items in my collection.
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