BEATLES 'HELLO GOODBYE I AM THE WALRUS 1st UK UnPlAyEd

	£		50
	$		66

THE BEATLES 'I AM THE WALRUS'' and ''HELLO GOODBYE'' 1st UK PRESSING 7'' SINGLE!! NEAR MINT ,VIRTUALY UNPLAYED VINYL! SOLID CENTERED PARLOPHONE LABELS ''SOLD IN THE UK...'' TEXT ACROSS THE LABELS! IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS AFTER 41 YEARS!!NEAR MINT AUDIO (NO) CLICKS,POPS OR DISTORTION! ORIGINAL PARLOPHONE COMPANY SLEEVE!! K.T TAX CODE STAMPED ON SIDE 2!!!

Another from my personal collection of Beatles records that I haver acumilated over a period of over 35 years! The vinyl looks barely ever played at all and sound truly awesome without the usual interfearance that is so often found on 41 year old Beatles records, (normaly played to death) not this one ,this is highly desirable and sought after like this look solid centered labels!!!

"I Am the Walrus" is a 1967 song by The Beatles, written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney.  The song was in The Beatles' 1967 television film and album Magical Mystery Tour, and was the B-side to the #1 hit "Hello, Goodbye"!!.

Lennon composed the avant-garde song by combining three songs he had been working on. When he learned that a teacher at his old primary school was having his students analyze Beatles' lyrics, he added a verse of nonsense words!!

The walrus is a reference to the walrus in Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter" (from the book Through the Looking-Glass). Lennon expressed dismay upon learning that the walrus was a villain in the poem!!

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The genesis of the lyrics is found in three song ideas that Lennon was working on, the first of which was inspired by hearing a police siren at his home in Weybridge; Lennon wrote the lines "Mis-ter cit-y police-man" to the rhythm of the siren. The second idea was a short rhyme about Lennon sitting in his garden, while the third was a nonsense lyric about sitting on a corn flake. Unable to finish the ideas as three different songs, he combined them into one!!.

Lennon received a letter from a pupil at Quarry Bank Grammar School, which he had attended. The writer mentioned that the English master was making his class analyse Beatles lyrics. (Lennon wrote an answer, dated September 1, 1967, which was auctioned by Christie's of London in 1992.) Lennon, amused that a teacher was putting so much effort into understanding The Beatles' lyrics, wrote the most confusing lyric he could!!. .

Lennon borrowed a couple of words, added the three unfinished ideas and the result was "I Am the Walrus".

All the chords are major chords or seventh chords, and all the musical letters of the alphabet (A, B, C, D, E, F and G) are used. The song ends with a chord progression built on ascending and descending lines in the bass and strings, repeated over and over as the song fades!. 

"I Am the Walrus" was the first studio recording made after the death of The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein in August 1967!!.

 The basic backing track featuring The Beatles was released in 1996 on Anthology 2. George Martin arranged and added orchestral accompaniment that included violins, cellos, horns, clarinet and a 16-piece choir. Paul McCartney said that Lennon gave instructions to Martin as to how he wished the orchestration to be scored, including singing most of the parts as a guide. A large group of professional studio vocalists named "The Mike Sammes Singers", took part in the recording as well, variously singing "Ho-ho-ho, hee-hee-hee, ha-ha-ha", "oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper!", "got one, got one, everybody's got one" and making a series of shrill whooping noises.

The dramatic reading in the mix towards the end of the song is a few lines of Shakespeare's King Lear (Act IV, Scene VI), which were added to the song direct from an AM radio receiving the broadcast of the play on the BBC Home Service (or possibly the BBC Third Programme). The bulk of the audible dialogue, heard in the fade, is the death scene of the character Oswald (including the words, "O untimely Death! Death!"); this is just one additional piece of the Paul is Dead urban legend!!.

Interesting note!The original 1967 stereo mix of the record has an interesting twist: At almost exactly two minutes into the song, the mix changes from regular stereo to "fake stereo", with most of the bass on one channel, and most of the treble on the other. The mix appears to 'wander' sonically in the fadeout, from left to right. The reason for the change in mixes was that the radio broadcast was inserted during the mono mixdown. The U.S. mono single mix also includes an extra bar of music before the words "yellow matter custard" - an early, overdub-free mix of the song released on The Beatles Anthology 2 reveals John singing the lyrics "Yellow mat - " too early; this was edited out. The mono version opens with a four-beat chord while stereo mix features six beats on the initial chord!!

"Hello Goodbye"  Though the songwriting credit is Lennon/McCartney, it was written only by Paul McCartney."Hello Goodbye" was released as a single in November 1967, and topped the charts in both the United States and Britain where it spent seven weeks at number one.The song appeared on the American Magical Mystery Tour LP, which was later adopted as the official UK version of the album, but not on the British 'Magical Mystery Tour' EP!!!

John Lennon wasn't fond of the song, which he called "three minutes of contradictions and meaningless juxtapositions." His distaste for the song grew further when it pushed "I Am the Walrus" to the B-side of the single. Though Lennon had anticipated "I Am the Walrus" being the A-side of the single, Paul McCartney and George Martin believed that "Hello Goodbye" was the more commercial tune. This dispute fed the conflict over single releases between Lennon and McCartney which prompted Lennon to say after the Beatles' breakup, "I got sick and tired of being Paul's backup band"!!

The final lines of the song, where the entire band sings "Hela, hey-ba hello-a" (the portion that plays over the end titles of the Magical Mystery Tour film) came spontaneously in the studio.!!!..

The Matrix

Side 1. ''7XCE 18433-1''

Side 2 ''7XCE 18434-1''

The Mother Stampers

Side 1 ''3'' ''MR''

Side 2 ''5'' ''MA''

The Vinyl

It is quite obvious that this vinyl has barely ever been played at all! On initial inspection I can barely see a blemish at all! I can see no scratches or at least (no) audio sounding marks at all! Any marks that could possibly be seen under a strong light would be sleeve removal only!

The Audio quality

I have played this vinyl two times prior to listing at very loud volume on a top system! The audio is as good as it gets in my opinion cristal clear and very vibrant throughout without distortion at all!! Unbelievably rare to ever find like this!!Very near perfect Near mint audio throughout!!!

The labels

These are the Parlophone labels ,,absolutely superbe No spindlemarks can be seen on side 1 and only two or pehapes three very light spider marks on side two! Remember that this is the original 1st press 41 years old Unbelievable to find!!

''Sold Iin The UK'' text is featured across the labels (only 1st press) ''The Gramophone co..'' is featured in 'uppercase' (only 1st UK press) K.T tax code is stamped on side 2. (only 1st UK press!)

The Record Sleeve

This is the original Parlophone Company sleeve (no) splits or tares no nasty hand writing! Just very light creasing with age could easily be ironed out! This is very clean must be at least excellent if not much better!!! 

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THIS ALBUM WILL BE SENT IN A LARGE BOX WITH CARDBOARD STIFFENERS THE ALBUM IS ALWAYS PUT IS A POLY SLEEVE AND ENCASED IN THE BOX WITH PLENTY OF BUBBLEWRAP FOR ADDED PROTECTION (SEE PHOTOS)

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