Editing Introducing... The Beatles (section)

==Counterfeits==
[[File:Counterfeit Label.jpg|thumb|right|alt=|A counterfeit ''Introducing... The Beatles'' label with the group's name and album title separated by the centre spindle hole]]
Starting in the late 1960s and continuing through the 1990s, ''Introducing... The Beatles'' was frequently [[counterfeit]]ed.<ref name="Before Capitol">{{cite web|url=http://www.friktech.com/btls/bc4.htm|title=The Beatles Before Capitol: Part Four|publisher=Friktech.com|access-date=27 June 2014|archive-date=1 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401091012/http://www.friktech.com/btls/bc4.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> These counterfeits can be identified by the cover printing and quality, the label, or the sound quality.

Counterfeits have some significant differences from the commercial issue.   Some of the more common variations include:
*Labels with the title of the album and the group's name separated by the center spindle hole (as shown in the photo to the right)<ref name="Before Capitol"/>
*Labels with color bands that are off-center and/or missing the color green (as shown in the photo to the right)
*Labels with large white "brackets" (no color band)
*Album covers with dark brown borders
*Dating from the late 1970s, [[George Harrison]]'s shadow is not visible on the right side of the cover. (However, all legitimate copies of the album and even most counterfeits include his shadow.)<ref name="Eskimo.com"/>
*Hype stickers that read "Featuring Twist and Shout" and "P.S. I Love You" (Legitimate hype stickers show "Twist and Shout" and "Please, Please Me")

Nearly all fakes claim to be in stereo (though the actual sound of the record is often in mono). As legitimate stereo copies of ''Introducing... The Beatles'' are rare,<ref name="Eskimo.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.eskimo.com/~bpentium/beatles/intro/intro.html|title=Variations of Introducing the Beatles|publisher=Eskimo.com|access-date=27 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220040804/http://www.eskimo.com/~bpentium/beatles/intro/intro.html|archive-date=20 February 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> the majority of copies with "stereo" or "stereophonic" printed on the cover are counterfeits.<ref name="Before Capitol"/>

There are also known fake versions of ''Songs, Pictures, and Stories of the Fabulous Beatles''.<ref name="Before Capitol"/> These counterfeits often omit "''Stories''" from the album title, since they are circulated without the gatefold cover and the text inside, renaming it ''Songs and Pictures of the Fabulous Beatles''. These versions have three songs not on the original album. "From Me To You" (in place of "Anna"), "Love Me Do" (in place of "Ask Me Why") and "P.S I Love You", which opens side 2 rather than "Please Please Me" (The song is rather placed on side 1, track 3).<ref name="Before Capitol"/>