I Wasn't aware of that one although I do own a copy of that song...
Some of the early Beatles stereo records were "badly panned". With The Beatles, the story is that stereo was an afterthought (maybe released after the original mono).
You also hear stories that stereo was new and they didn't know what to do with it, but that's hard to believe because I'm sure classical recordings were panned to sound natural.
That was 1965 and I'm pretty sure The Beatles weird stereo recordings were earlier than that.
But besides the technical limitations of the early 60's they usually didn't spend much time on production.
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