Expert: James Michael Anderson - 3/21/2008

Question
In 1977 I bought a used copy of Abbey Road.  It turned out that the first side is Atom Heart Mother (by Pink Floyd).  The second side is Abbey Road side two.  The album labels are the correct, standard Abbey Road labels.  It appears to be a mis-pressing from the factory (perhaps when switching from pressing Pink Floyd to pressing Beatles).  Any idea of how rare and valuable this may be?

Answer
These are pretty rare but unfortunately are not valuable.  There are also many Let It Be pressings that have Lennon solo album labels on them.
They are just considered bad pressings and since they weren't bad to the image of the Beatles, don't really carry much value outside of the actual cost of the album.