Beatles " MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR "SUPERB UK 1ST STEREO EP

	£		30
	$		40

THIS IS A STUNNING EXAMPLE OF A MUCH RARER STEREO COPY COMPLETE WITH EARLIEST SOLD IN UK TEXT,  BLUE LYRIC INNER ( LATER COPIES ARE YELLOW ), PLAIN WAVY TOPPED INNERS ( SO IMPORTANT AS THESE ARE OFTEN MISSING) , AND KT STAMPS TO THE CENTRE (LATER ISSUES HAVE KT ONLY IN THE DEAD WAX, AND LATER STILL NOT EVEN THAT ) A REALLY BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE TOO L@@K......

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FOR INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLS SEE MY FURTHER NOTES BELOW 

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ALL MY RECORDS ARE USUALLY SOLD ON VISUAL GRADINGS ONLY, THEREFORE, WITH THE SINGULAR EXCEPT ION OF THOSE RARE OCCASSIONS WHERE I DO STATE THEY HAVE BEEN PLAY GRADED, AS ALL DISCS ARE 2ND HAND ANY PLAYING DEFECTS ARE THEREFORE CAVIAT EMPTOR AND SO NON REFUNDABLE. I ONLY REFUND  WHERE AN ACTUAL GRADING OF MINE IS DISPUTED     

STUNNING COPY OF A MONO MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR EP. THIS EP GOT TO NUMBER 2 IN THE SINGLES CHARTS AND WAS ONLY KEPT OFF OF NUMBER ONE BY THE BEATLES OWN "HELLO GOODBYE " IN THE FIRST WEEKS OF 1968, AN AMAZING ACHEIVEMENT FOR A FAR MORE EXPESIVE DOUBLE EP PACKAGE.

HOWEVER WHAT MAKES THIS COPY SO COLLECTABLE IS NOT JUST IT'S CONDITION BUT THAT IT IS A MUCH RARER SOLD IN UK TXTD KT STAMPED STEREO EXAMPLE FULLY COMPLETE WITH THE CORRECT INNERS !!

WHEN FIRST ISSUED IN DECEMBER 1967 THIS  " EP " PACKAGE ( IT WAS REALLY MORE LIKE A DOUBLE MAXI SINGLE REALLY ) STEREO WAS JUST STARTING TO MAKE AN IMPACT IN THE SALES MARKET. HOWEVER MONO WAS STILL BY FAR THE MORE DOMINANT FORMAT AND THIS PACKAGE WAS MARKETED AGAINST 7" SINGLES ( INDEED AS I HAVE SAID THIS WAS ONLY KEPT OFF THE NUMBER ONE SPOT IN THE SINGLES CHART BY THE BEATLES OWN " HELLO GOODBYE " - BIT OF A MARKETING ERROR THERE I THINK, AND NOT THE FIRST FROM EMI EITHER! )

OF COURSE STEREO SINGLES WOULD NOT APPEAR FOR NEARLY ANOTHER TWO YEARS AND ALTHOUGH YOU COULD GET STEREO EP'S THIS WASN'T REALLY A PROPER EP SO EMI INITIALLY PRESSED ONLY TINY NUMBERS OF THESE STEREO COPIES IN COMPARISION WITH THE MONO ONES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ANTICIPATED  ( LACK OF ) DEMAND. INDEED FOR THE MOST PART YOU COULD ONLY GET THE STEREO VERSION OF THIS PACKAGE FROM YOU LOCAL RECORD SHOP BY PLACING A SPECIAL ORDER WITH THEM TO EMI !

LATER ON EMI WOULD PRESS MORE STEREO VERSIONS OF THIS EP WAY UP UNTIL THE MID 1970'S WHEN THEY FINALLY DECIDED TO RELEASE THIS IN THE UK IN THE LP FORMAT THAT IT WAS ISSUED IN IN THE STATES ( INDEED THE US LP VERSION WAS SO POPULAR IN THIS COUNTRY THAT EMI IMPORTED LARGE BATCHES FOR SALE IN IT'S OWN HMV CHAIN AND ELSEWHERE, IT WAS THIS DEMAND THAT PROBABLY - ALBIET SOMEWHAT TOO BELATEDLY - CAUSED EMI TO RELEASE THE LP HERE AND FINALLY DELETE THE EP ALTOGETHER ! )

HOWEVER THIS IS ALSO CLEARLY ONE OF THE EARLIEST COPIES AND YOU CAN TELL THIS BY SEVERAL DISTINCT DIFFERENCES TO LATER COPIES.

FIRSTLY THIS COPY HAS A BLUE LYRIC CENTRE SHEET, FROM AROUND 1970 THIS WAS CHANGED TO YELLOW.

SECONDLY THIS COPY HAS THE " SOLD IN UK TXT..." IN THE LABELS, THIS WAS REMOVED AFTER JULY 1969

THIRDLY IT STILL RETAINS IT'S IMPORTANT " WAVY TOP " PLAIN INNERS ( FROM 1969 THESE WOULD BE REPLACED BUT SQUARE TOPPED PLAIN INNERS).

AND LASTLY THIS COPY HAS THE KT STAMP ON THE CENTRE OF BOTH DISCS, THIS DOES NOT APPREAR ON MOST OF THE COPIES PRESSED AFTER MID 1968 AND WAS JUST LEFT IN THE DEAD WAX, THEN LATER STILL, NOT EVEN ON THERE

FOR AUCTION IS THE UK DOUBLE EP  " MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR "

ARTIST: THE BEATLES

COUNTRY: UK

CAT NO:  SMMT 1

MONO/STEREO : MONO

LABEL:  PARLOPHONE

DATE : 1967

MATRIX : -1 -2 -1 -1

TAX: KT

CONDITION......

SLEEVE: SIMPLY STUNNING, NO WEAR ON IT AT ALL, NOTHING WOULD GARDE NEAR MINT  SAVE FOR THE BACK EDGE WHERE THE LAMINTE HAD LIFTED A LITTLE ON BUT THATS THE ONLY FLAW I CAN SEE ON THIS STUNNING EXAMPLE, HARD TO BEAT THIS ONE.

VINYL VISUAL: ALL FOUR SIDES RETAIN A LOVELY SHEEN, ONLY A FEW VERY LIGHT MARKS ONLY ARE VISABLE UNDER A BRIGHT HALOGEN LIGHT SO GRADES EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT MINUS AT WORST IF I WAS TO BE PICKY BUT STILL HARD TO IMPROVE ON 

LABELS: NO LABELS OR WRITINGS OR ANY SERIOUS FLAWS, SIDES 1 AND 3 SHOW NO EVIDENCE OF PLAY SO GRADE NEAR MINT, SIDES 2 AND 4 HOWEVER SHOW ONLY THE VERY ODD SPINDLE TRACE AND SO GRADE EXCELLENT. THE SIDE 4 LABEL HAS SOME MINOR DISTORTION/CREASING BUT THIS IS A FLAW FROM WHEN THE LABEL WAS ORIGINALLY APPLIED AND SO DOES NOT EFFECT IT'S GRADING.    

INNERS: BOTH WAVY TOPPED INNERS ARE IN VERY GOOD CONTION WITH NO SPLITS BUT ONE DOES HAVE A FRONTAL SNAG TARE. IT SHOULD BET NOTED THAT EMI USED TWO TYPES OF WAVY TOPPED INNERS WITH THIS PACKAGE, ONE GLUED LEFT AND RIGHT AND ONE GLUED BOTTOM AND RIGHT, JUST LIKE MANY OF THEIR GENERIC COMPANY INNERS WHICH ALSO OFTEN DISPLAYED BOTH TYPES OF CONSTRUCTION . ACCORDINGLY YOU DO SOMETIMES FIND A MIXTURE OF BOTH EXAMPLES AND THAT IS THE CASE HERE BUT BOTH/EITHER TYPES ARE CORRECT

THIS IS A FABULOUS EXAMPLE OF A FULLY COMPLETE AND EARLIEST STEREO EXAMPLE ...GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS!!

(Please note that whilst I try to endeavour to adhere to strict RC gradings I will never describe ANYTHING AS MINT even when I think it to be so. As far as I am concerned any secondhand item by definition cannot be mint. However if I believe an item to be Mint  I will instead either use the terms Near Mint, mint minus, or in archive or vault condition. When I use these terms you know that in my opinion this is in effect a de-facto Mint grade )

Dont forget to take a look at my other items. Please feel free to contact me with any queries you may have.

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I ONLY DO A COUPLE OF RUNS A WEEK TO THE POST OFFICE BUT MY ITEMS ARE ALWAYS DISPATCHED WELL WITHIN ONE CALENDAR WEEK OF PAYMENT BEING RECEIVED. I APOLOGISE IN ADVANCE TO THOSE BUYERS WHO SEEM TO EXPECT THEIR ITEM TO ARRIVE THE NEXT DAY, IF YOU WANT TO CHECK WHEN AN ITEM WAS SENT JUST PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND I WILL BE VERY HAPPY TO TELL YOU!! (SOME PEOPLE DO MAKE YOU LAUGH, FOR ITEMS I BUY I ONLY NORMALLY GET CONCERNED AFTER A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND EVEN AFTER THAT THEN ONLY POLIETELY ENQUIRE IF AND WHEN THE ITEM WAS SENT).

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PAYMENTS BY PAYPAL ARE PREFERRED BUT I ALSO ACCEPT OTHER METHODS. I ALSO POST WORLDWIDE (PLS APPLY FOR RATES) BUT DUE TO A PROBLEM WITH A DISREPUTABLE BUYER IN JAPAN (PIGGIESSS - I AM HAPPY TO NAME THEM) , FOR ALL PAYMENTS MADE VIA PAYPAL THE ITEM WILL ONLY BE SENT BOTH TO THE UK AND WORLDWIDE BY RECORDED OR INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR DELIVERY. THIS IS TO ELIMINATE THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY ATTEMPT TO CLAIM BACK THE PAYMENT VIA PAYPAL EVEN AFTER ACTUALLY HAVING RECEIVED THE ITEM.

THIS OBVIOUSLY HAS HAD THE RESULT OF INCREASING MY COSTS FOR POSTING AND PACKING AND I AM VERY SORRY FOR THIS BUT PAYPAL OFFER NO PROTECTION FOR SELLERS UNLESS THERE IS PROOF OF DELIVERY!! PROOF OF POSTING WOULD SEEM INSUFFICIENT TO THEM AND I HAVE FOUND THIS OUT THE HARD WAY..

DUE TO THE BEHAVIOUR OF THIS SAME BUYER PAYPAL PAYMENTS WILL ALSO NOT BE ACCEPTED FROM BUYERS WHO DO NOT ALLOW THEIR FEEDBACK TO READ, SO IF YOU FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY PLEASE DO NOT BID ON MY ITEMS UNLESS YOU CAN PAY BY ANOTHER METHOD…….EUROPE INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR MAIL COSTS ARE USUALLY GBP 8.99 FOR A SINGLE LP AND FOR USA/REST OF WORLD IT IS USUALLY GBP 12.99 FOR A SINGLE AND GBP 15.99 FOR A DOUBLE LP