HOR ZU / ELECTROLA LP SHZE 401: BEATLES - Sgt Pepper - 1967 GERMANY 1st Issue NM
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Background -
The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the rock era. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several genres, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements in innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania", but as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, they came to be perceived as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the era's sociocultural revolutions.The Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960, during which Stuart Sutcliffe briefly served as a fifth member until his death. The core of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison went through a succession of drummers, most notably Pete Best, before settling on Starr. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act and producer George Martin enhanced their musical potential. They gained popularity in the United Kingdom after their first hit, "Love Me Do", in late 1962. They acquired the nickname "the Fab Four" as Beatlemania grew in Britain over the following year, and by early 1964 they had become international stars, leading the "British Invasion" of the United States pop market. From 1965 onwards, the Beatles produced what many consider their finest material, including the innovative and widely influential albums Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), The Beatles (commonly known as the White Album, 1968) and Abbey Road (1969).
After their break-up in 1970, they each enjoyed successful musical careers of varying lengths. McCartney and Starr, the surviving members, remain musically active. Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980, and Harrison died of lung cancer in November 2001.
According to the RIAA, the Beatles are the best-selling music artists in the United States, with 178 million certified units. They have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles in the UK than any other act. In 2008, the group topped Billboard magazine's list of the all-time most successful "Hot 100" artists; as of 2015, they hold the record for most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart with twenty. They have received ten Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. Collectively included in Time magazine's compilation of the twentieth century's 100 most influential people, they are the best-selling band in history, with estimated sales of over 600 million records worldwide. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, with all four being inducted individually as well from 1994 to 2015.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 1 June 1967, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, spending 27 weeks at the top of the albums chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number one in the United States. Time magazine declared it "a historic departure in the progress of music" and the New Statesman praised its elevation of pop to the level of fine art. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour.
In August 1966, the Beatles permanently retired from touring and began a three-month holiday from recording. During a return flight to London in November, Paul McCartney had an idea for a song involving an Edwardian era military band that would eventually form the impetus of the Sgt. Pepper concept. Sessions for the Beatles' eighth studio album began on 24 November in Abbey Road Studio Two with two compositions inspired from their youth, "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane", but after pressure from EMI, the songs were released as a double A-side single; they were not included on the album.
In February 1967, after recording "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", McCartney suggested that the Beatles should release an entire album that would represent a performance by the fictional Sgt. Pepper band. This alter ego group would give them the freedom to experiment musically. During the recording sessions, the band endeavoured to improve upon the production quality of their prior releases. Knowing they would not have to perform the tracks live, they adopted an experimental approach to composition, writing songs such as "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "A Day in the Life". Producer George Martin's innovative recording of the album included the liberal application of sound shaping signal processing and the use of a 40-piece orchestra performing aleatoric crescendos. Recording was completed on 21 April 1967. The cover, depicting the band posing in front of a tableau of celebrities and historical figures, was designed by the British pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth.
Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the use of extended form in popular music while continuing the artistic maturation seen on the Beatles' preceding releases. It has been described as one of the first art rock LPs, aiding the development of progressive rock, and credited with marking the beginning of the Album Era. An important work of British psychedelia, the album incorporates a range of stylistic influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, and Western and Indian classical music. In 2003, the Library of Congress placed Sgt. Pepper in the National Recording Registry, honouring the work as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". That same year, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number one in its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". As of 2014, it has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums in history. Professor Kevin J. Dettmar, writing in the Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, described it as "the most important and influential rock and roll album ever recorded".
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LP made by HOR ZU / ELECTROLA / EMI / ODEON Records, in GERMANY
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LP released in 1967
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LP is recorded in STEREO
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Record Catalog Number: SHZE 401
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Record Labels are primarily WHITE with a GOLD RIM running around the outside of the label, with RED lettering, with the HOR ZU / ODEON record label logo (see pics) - FIRST PRESSING
The Beatles
LP Title -
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Track Listing -- Sgt. Pepper was the first Beatles album to be released with identical track listings in the UK and the US.
- First American pressings on the black/colorband Capitol label erroneously show track 2 on side one as "A Little Help From My Friends"; this was corrected for subsequent pressings
Side one
1. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - McCartney - 2:02
2. "With a Little Help from My Friends" - Starr - 2:44
3. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" - Lennon - 3:28
4. "Getting Better" - McCartney - 2:48
5. "Fixing a Hole" - McCartney - 2:36
6. "She's Leaving Home" - McCartney with Lennon - 3:35
7. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" - Lennon - 2:37
Side two
1. "Within You Without You" - Harrison - 5:04
2. "When I'm Sixty-Four" - McCartney - 2:37
3. "Lovely Rita" - McCartney - 2:42
4. "Good Morning Good Morning" - Lennon - 2:41
5. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" - Lennon, McCartney and Harrison - 1:19
6. "A Day in the Life" - Lennon and McCartney - 5:39
Total length: 39:52
Performers -
Paul McCartney – lead, harmony and background vocals; bass and lead guitars; electric and acoustic pianos, Lowrey and Hammond organs; hand claps; vocalisations, tape loops, sound effects, and comb and tissue paper
George Harrison – harmony and background vocals; lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars; sitar; tamboura; harmonica and kazoo; hand claps and maracas; lead vocals on "Within You Without You"
Ringo Starr – drums, congas, tambourine, maracas, hand claps and tubular bells; lead vocals on "With a Little Help from My Friends"; harmonica; final piano E chord
Additional musicians and production:
Sounds Incorporated – the saxophone sextet on "Good Morning, Good Morning"
Neil Aspinall – tamboura and harmonica
Geoff Emerick – audio engineering; tape loops and sound effects
Mal Evans – counting, harmonica, alarm clock and final piano E chord
George Martin – producer and mixer; tape loops and sound effects; harpsichord on "Fixing a Hole", harmonium, Lowrey organ and glockenspiel on "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!", Hammond organ on "With a Little Help from My Friends", and piano on "Getting Better" and the piano solo in "Lovely Rita"; final harmonium chord.
Session musicians – four French horns on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band": Neill Sanders, James W. Buck, John Burden, Tony Randall,[320] arranged and conducted by Martin and McCartney; string section and harp on "She's Leaving Home", arranged by Mike Leander and conducted by Martin; tabla, dilrubas, tamboura and swarmandal on "Within You Without You", played by members of the Asian Music Circle, with eight violins and four cellos arranged and conducted by Harrison and Martin; clarinet trio on "When I'm Sixty-Four": Robert Burns, Henry MacKenzie, Frank Reidy, arranged and conducted by Martin and McCartney; saxophones on "Good Morning, Good Morning", arranged and conducted by Martin and Lennon; and forty-piece orchestra, including strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion on "A Day in the Life", arranged by Martin, Lennon and McCartney and conducted by Martin and McCartney.
CONDITION Details:
The glossy GATE-FOLD LP jacket is in near mint minus condition! The jacket is tight and clean, with NO seam splits. The corners are solid, with just a bit of shelf wear the seams and corners. The jacket comes complete with the "cutout" insert and this item is perfect - no cuts, bends, anything. The colors on the jacket are sharp...just lovely (see pictures with this listing as they are of the actual item).
The LP is in near mint minus condition! FIRST PRESSING!! We found that the vinyl looked superb on this vintage LP. There are a couple of spider marks on side 1 of the LP which we play graded and they did not sound on our audio system - this will depend on the sensitivity of your audio gear. The spider marks were caused by the original, heavy paper inner sleeve when the record was slid in and out of the sleeve. However the LP retains much of the original gloss and sheen - obviously well taken care of! There are NO serious spindle marks on the record labels. Just beautiful GERMAN made vinyl!A Short Note About LP GRADING -
- Mint = Only used for sealed items.
- Near Mint = Virtually flawless in every way.
- Near Mint Minus = Item has some minor imperfections, some audible.
- Excellent = Item obviously played and enjoyed with some noise.
- Very Good Plus = Many more imperfections which are noticeable and obtrusive.
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