BEATLES 1ST UK WHITE ALBUM MONO FACTORY SAMPLE LP WOW

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BEATLES 1ST UK WHITE ALBUM MONO FACTORY SAMPLE LP WOW Search

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THE BEATLES

THE WHITE ALBUM

MONO

FACTORY SAMPLE NOT FOR SALE

EXCELLENT PLUS PLUS AUDIO

NO. 0252452

TOP OPENING

ALL LABELS OMIT “AN EMI RECORDING”

"SOLD IN THE UK" LABEL TEXT

DARK GREEN APPLE LABELS

PMC 7067 - 7068

HI THERE AND WELCOME TO OUR SPECIAL AUCTION HERE AT ALLADINS CABIN.

IN ADDITION TO THE SUPER PICTURES WE HAVE ACQUIRED OF THE ALBUM AND IT'S CONTENTS, WE ALSO HAVE ALL FOUR SIDES IN MP3 FORMAT TO COMPARE BOTH AUDIO AND VISUAL CLARITY.

THE LINKS BELOW CONTAIN SIDES 1 TO 4 IN FULL MONO BRILLIANCE. PLEASE LISTEN, THE AUDIO IS STUNNING AND YOU WILL NOT BE DIS-APPOINTED. EACH SIDE IS CONVERTED INTO MP3 FORMAT VIA OUR TECHNICS USB TURNTABLE.

EACH SIDE HAS BEEN PLAYED ONCE AND ARE NOW PACKAGED OUT OF THEIR BLACK INNERS, (HOUSED IN GENERIC WHITE INNERS TO PREVENT FURTHER WEAR WHILST IN TRANSIT) AND "NOT" INSERTED INSIDE THE TOP OPENING "GARROD AND LOFTHOUSE" NUMBERED MONO SLEEVE.

ALL CONTENTS AS STATED WITHIN THIS AUCTION ARE ROBUSTLY PACKAGED INSIDE BUBBLE WRAP, TWO THICK QUALITY CARDBOARD MAIL SPACERS AND A THICK HEAVY DUTY CARDBOARD MAILER.

TO LISTEN TO EACH SIDE YOU WILL REQUIRE WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER OR EQUIVALENT.

SIDE 1:

http://www.alladinscabin.zoomshare.com/files/MP3_s/SIDE_1_WHOLE.mp3

SIDE 2:

http://www.alladinscabin.zoomshare.com/files/MP3_s/Side_2_Whole.mp3

SIDE 3:

http://www.alladinscabin.zoomshare.com/files/MP3_s/SIDE_3_WHITE_MONO_final.mp3

SIDE 4:

http://www.alladinscabin.zoomshare.com/files/MP3_s/side_4_final.mp3

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1968 UK MONO "FACTORY SAMPLE NOT FOR SALE" 1ST PRESSING OF THE BEATLES “WHITE ALBUM”. IT IS NUMBERED ONLY 0252452 AND WAS PURCHASED VERY EARLY FOLLOWING THE ALBUMS RELEASE. IT IS TOP OPENING WITH “THE BEATLES” EMBOSSED ON THE FRONT COVER AND ALL LABELS STATE "SOLD IN THE U.K." TEXT. 

THE PACKAGE COMES COMPLETE WITH:

"FACTORY SAMPLE NOT FOR SALE" WHITE AND RED ARROW-POINTED STICKER ON SIDE 4 WITH 1 RM STAMPER.

"THE BEATLES" EMBOSSED MONO "GARROD AND LOFTHOUSE" TOP OPENING LAMINATED SLEEVE WITH A LOW NUMBER OF 0252452. (NO STEREO ON REAR OF COVER)

VINYL AUDIO PLAYBACK EXCELLENT ++

VINYL VISUAL:

DISC 1 EXCELLENT +

DISC 2 EXCELLENT

1ST PRESS “KISS” LYRIC POSTER ( EXCELLENT ++)

FOUR COLOUR PORTRAITS OF EACH BEATLE

( EXCELLENT + )

TWO THICK ORIGINAL BLACK INNERS

1ST INNER VERY GOOD +

2ND INNER EXCELLENT +

CATALOGUE NUMBERS

APPLE PMC 7067

APPLE PMC 7068

                                   STAMPERS

XEX 709 - 1  MATRIX                   5 OM

XEX 710 - 1  MATRIX                    5  TT

XEX 711 - 1   MATRIX                   2  PH

XEX 712 - 1   MATRIX                   1  RM

NO TAX CODE ON ANY OF THE LABELS

OMITS "AN EMI RECORDING" TEXT ON ALL LABELS.

The album's sleeve was designed by Richard Hamilton, a notable pop artist who had organised a Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Tate Gallery the previous year. Hamilton's design was in stark contrast to Peter Blake's vivid cover art for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and consisted of a plain white sleeve. The band's name was discreetly embossed slightly below the middle of the album's right side, and the cover also featured a unique stamped serial number, "to create," in Hamilton's words, "the ironic situation of a numbered edition of something like five million copies.” Indeed, the artist intended the cover to resemble the "look" of conceptual art, an emerging movement in contemporary art at the time. Later vinyl record releases in the U.S. showed the title in grey printed (rather than embossed) letters.

PLEASE OBSERVE THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE ORIGINAL DARK GREEN APPLE LABLES WHICH ON THREE SIDES ARE EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH VERY FEW UNWANTED MARKS OR WRITING. FOLLOWING INSPECTION UNDER NATURAL DAYLIGHT CONDTIONS, THE LABELS SHOW FEW MINOR SPIDER TRACES PRESENT TO ALL SIDES. AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHS THEY ARE EXTREMELY RESPECTABLE.

THE TEXT REMAINS PERFECTLY LEGIBLE AND ALL SIDES ARE EXTREMLEY BRIGHT WITH ONLY VERY VERY MINOR WEAR AROUND THE SPINDLE HOLES! ON SIDE 4, THE EXTREMELY RARE "ARROW-POINTED" RED AND WHITE "FACTORY SAMPLE NOT FOR SALE" APPLE LABEL IS VERY GOOD PLUS WITH NEAR PERFECT TEXT THROUGHOUT. THERE IS SOME WEAR TO THE LABEL BUT THIS AN EXTREMELY RARE ADDITION TO A FANTASTICALLY RARE ORIGINAL MONO PRESSING.

THE APPLE LABELS ON ALL FOUR SIDES OMIT "AN EMI RECORDING" WHICH WERE CERTAINLY PRESSED BEFORE THE ADDITION OF "AN EMI RECORDING" AS IN LATER ISSUES. ALSO, THE LABELS STATE "SOLD IN THE U.K." WITH "MFD IN UK" TEXT ALSO PRESENT. THEY DISPLAY A CLEAR AND CLEAN APPEARANCE WITH A FEW SPIDER TRACES AND MINOR WEAR AROUND THROUGHOUT. THESE ARE EXCELLENT EXAMPLES OF THE FIRST PRESS MONO APPLE LABELS.

PLEASE OBSERVE THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE ORIGINAL GLOSSY VINYL. IT IS GRADED AS EXCELLENT + OVERALL, IN NORMAL DAYLIGHT CONDITIONS THE GREAT LOOKING MONO VINYL DISPLAYS A WONDERFUL MIRRORED SHINE AND FOLLOWING INSPECTION SHOWS VERY VERY FEW LIGHT SURFACE MARKS WITH THE BRIGHT SHINY VINYL SITTING ON THE TURNTABLE PERFECTLY FLAT WITH NO WARPING OR CURVING.

TO CLARIFY, THE VISUAL CONDITION OF EACH SIDE:

SIDE 1 – EXCELLENT

SIDE 2 – EXCELLENT

SIDE 3 - EXCELLENT

SIDE 4 - EXCELLENT

THE MONO AUDIO IS EXCELLENT +, PLEASE TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CLARIFY OUR EVALUATION OF THE VINYLS AUDIO PLAYBACK VIA THE MP3 LINKS ABOVE. IT IS WONDERFUL TO HEAR THIS AMAZING MONO "FACTORY SAMPLE NOT FOR SALE" WHITE ALBUM IN THIS NEAR PERFECT, MOODY AND ATMOSPHERIC CONDITION. 

ALL TRACKS ARE FANTASTIC AND WOULD GRADE THEM A CONSERVATIVE 9 / 10 OVERALL.  THERE ABSOLUTELY NO SKIPS, NO JUMPS, NO MODERATE OT MAJOR CRACKLE. THERE ARE VERY FEW MINOR PLAYBACK DISTORTS, THIS INCLUDES IN-BETWEEN TRACKS AND THE DURING QUIETER TRACKS, SUCH AS: BLACKBIRD, JULIA AND MOTHER NATURES SON, FOR EXAMPLE. THIS IS A WONDERFUL VINLY EXPERIENCE AND AN OPPORTUNITY NOT TO BE MISSED. A FANTASTIC AUDIO AND VISUAL EXPERIENCE.

 PLEASE OBSERVE THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE ORIGINAL "GARROD AND LOFTHOUSE" TOP OPENING SLEEVE WHICH IS FANTASTICALLY NUMBERED AN UNBELIEVABLY LOW 0252452 WITH "THE BEATLES" EMBOSSED SLIGHTLY LOWER THAN CENTRAL.

THIS SLEEVE WOULD HAVE INDEED BEEN ONE OF THE FIRST EXAMPLES OFF THE SHELF, EVEN WITHIN THE FIRST COUPLE OF DAYS FOLLOWING ITS RELEASE ON THE 22ND NOVEMBER 1968.

THE FRONT OF THE SLEEVE STILL HOLDS ITS WONDERFUL GLOSS SHINE. "THE BEATLES" EMBOSSED LOGO IS BOLD AND STRONG TO THE EYE AND THE NUMBER 0252452 IS NEAR PERFECT WITH BOLD UNWORN TEXT. THE SLEEVE REMAINS FLAT WITH ONLY MINOR RINGWARE AND MINOR CRACKING. THE OPENING TOP EDGES SHOW JUST THE SLIGHTEST SIGNS OF HANDLING WEAR AND THERE ARE LIGHT CORNER BUMPS PRESENT.

THE INSIDE OF THE GARROD AND LOFTHOUSE ( PRINTED AND MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN) SLEEVE AS AN EXCELLENT CENTRE SEAM AND UNSPOILT PICTURES AND TEXT. THERE IS ONLY MINOR DISCOLOURATION PRESENT WITH ABSOLUTE MINIMAL WEAR TO THE FLIP-BACK MARGINS.

THE REAR (WITH NO INDICATION OF “STEREO” IN THE UPPER RIGHT) IS EXCELLENT WITH ONLY MINOR WEAR THROUGHOUT. 

THE SPINE IS VERY GOOD PLUS CONDITION WITH A MINOR CENTRE CRACK AND A MINIMAL AMOUNT OF CREASING AND PEELING.

Most of the songs that would end up on The Beatles had been conceived during the group's visit to Rishikesh, India in the spring of 1968. There, they had undertaken a transcendental meditation course with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Although the retreat, which had required long periods of meditation, was initially conceived by the band as a spiritual respite from all worldly endeavours – a chance, in Lennon's words, to "get away from everything" both Lennon and McCartney had quickly found themselves in songwriting mode, often meeting "clandestinely in the afternoons in each other's rooms to review the new work. "Regardless of what I was supposed to be doing," Lennon would later recall, "I did write some of my best songs there."Close to forty new compositions had emerged in Rishikesh, a little more than half of which would be laid down in very rough form at Kinfauns, George Harrison’s home in Esher.

The Beatles left Rishikesh before the end of the course, with Ringo Starr and then Paul McCartney departing first, and Lennon and George Harrison departing together later. According to some reports, Lennon left Rishikesh because he felt personally betrayed by rumours that Maharishi had made sexual advances toward Mia Farrow, who had accompanied The Beatles on their trip. Shortly after he decided to leave, Lennon wrote a song called "Maharishi" which included the lyrics, "Maharishi/You little twat"; the song became "Sexy Sadie". According to several authors, Alexis Mardas (aka "Magic Alex") deliberately engineered these rumours because he was bent on undermining the Maharishi's influence over each Beatle. However, Lennon himself, in a 1980 interview, acknowledged that the Maharishi was the inspiration for the song. "I just called him 'Sexy Sadie'." In May 1968, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison assembled at Kinfauns, and demoed 23 songs that they composed at Rishikesh.

 PLEASE OBSERVE THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FOUR COLOUR PORTRAITS THEY ARE IN EXCELLENT PLUS CONDITION AS THEY HAVE ONLY BEEN REMOVED ON A COUPLE OF OCCASIONS. OVERALL, THERE IS VERY MINOR WEAR TO THESE WONDERFUL PORTRAIT PICTURES. 9 / 10.

 PLEASE OBSERVE THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE ORIGINAL FACTORY FOLDED “LIPSTICK KISS” POSTER WHICH IS IN EXCELLENT PLUS - NEAR MINT CONDITION. THIS IS THE FIRST ISSUE POSTER, IT HAS NO FADING, NEAR PERFECT CREASE-LINES AND EXTREMELY LIGHT DISCOLOURATION IN VERY FEW AREAS. 9 / 10 

PLEASE OBSERVE THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE ORIGINAL THICK MATT BLACK INNERS. THE INNERS ARE IN VERY GOOD + TO EXCELLENT CONDITION....STILL CRISP AND STILL THEIR ORIGINAL DEEP BLACK COLOUR THE INNERS DISPLAY JUST THE EXPECTED CREASES FROM THE VINYLS BEING REMOVED FROM ITS SLEEVE. EACH INNER IS IN GREAT CONDITION WITH ONE WINDOW RIP ON ONE INNER. DISC 1 INNER 7 / 10 WITH DISC 2 INNER GRADING 8.5 / 10.

THIS WONDERFUL LOW NUMBERED 0252452 MONO "FACTORY SAMPLE NOT FOR SALE" EDITION WILL EMPHASISE THE TRUE AUTHENTIC CONTENT THAT WAS MEANT FOR TRUE FANS OF THE BEATLES, BY THE BEATLES.

WHAT A FANTASTIC PIECE OF HISTORY UP FOR GRABS FOR JUST £1

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 PLEASE DO NOT BID IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BUY AS PER THE ITEM DESCRIPTION ABOVE. THIS IS A LEGALLY BINDING CONTRACT UNLESS SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT THAN THAT DESCRIBED.

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