BEATLES Sgt. Pepper MONO 1st press SUPERB

	£		67
	$		89

The BEATLES-Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 

Ist UK PRESSING, MONO PMC 7027

The vinyl has great sheen and is visually a beautiful record, which could only be bettered by an absolutely MINT record, which never, basically, become available. No playing faults whatsoever. A STUNNING COPY.
The Garrod & Lofthouse cover is very nice indeed, extremely strong & clean throughout. Strong spine. Light wear only.
The inner sleeve is the hardest part of the original item to find, it never having been part of any other record in existence. This one is in fine condition, with a tiny, TINY imperceptible glue repair to lower edge. Barely noticeable. The cut-out insert is in MINT-  condition.

The brainchild of Paul McCartney, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was devised as if the Beatles were in fact that band. In the opening "act," Paul wanted this fictitious band to have the typical sounds, that is the musicians warming up, sounds of the audience settling in, followed by laughter and applause. Although an absolute recording masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper also had a few "firsts." It was the first time that an album had the entire printed lyrics on the album sleeve; the first time a true double album "gatefold" sleeve design was used; the first to have something other than a plain inner bag, where the first pressing came in a sort of red designed psychedelic sleeve; and came with cardboard cut-outs of a moustache, picture card, stripes, badges and a stand up.

The Beatles used a ton of trickery in the studio over the years, with very innovative recordings. On Pepper, besides the many sound effects throughout, you'll find the forty-second crashing piano chord after the last track, A Day in the Life, followed by what is a 15-kilocycle tone, placed there by John Lennon to "especially annoy your dog." This was followed by several seconds of nonsense talking by the Beatles that was recorded, then cut into several pieces of tape, then stuck back together to form these sounds. On the vinyl album, many people did not hear these sounds, as with the old turntables, the arm would return before these sounds could be heard, as this track was so far at the end, the arm would reject before this part was heard.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band took about 135 days to record, commencing on December 6, 1966 with the song When I'm Sixty-Four and ending on April 21, 1967 after recording the final cut of A Day In The Life. These 135 days were easily the most creative for the Beatles and probably the most creative in rock history. The cover of Sgt. Pepper is unique in itself, containing 86 cardboard cut-outs depicting images of famous people, wax models of Paul, John, George and Ringo, and miscellaneous other objects. When looking at the cover, you will see two larger spaces along the top row. The first is between the image of Edgar Allen Poe (8th from left) and after The Vargas Girl (11th from left). The first gap was intended, the second was not. After the Vargas Girl was supposed to be the image of Leo Gorcey, an actor who was one of the Bowery Boys. However, he requested a fee to use his image, so it was painted out. Also, the image of Adolph Hitler was originally to be included, but was abandoned. The cover is © MC Productions and The Apple, and was staged by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, and photographed by Michael Cooper. The wax figures of the Beatles are courtesy of Madame Tussauds.

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