THE BEATLES SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND UK MONO COMPLETE 1ST PRESS

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THE BEATLES SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND UK MONO COMPLETE 1ST PRESS
Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+) Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
This is a really nice example of The Beatles eighth album, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. 
It includes the cut out cards, complete set of 7, which have already been very neatly cut out (see photos 10  and 11), but the rest of the card has long gone. 
This is the mono version, with the flip-back at the top on the inside of the gatefold.
The first pressing. I always find it hard to read the stamper numbers, but it seems to be WRR or RRW and 37 (3 above 7, W at top) on side 1, and MRD or DRM and 2 on side 2 (D at top). 
Includes the red wavy patterned inner sleeve, which isn't perfect and has some writing on it (Traffic is written on both sides).
I have play tested this (Rega Planar 3/Linn K9) and it sounds great. Probably best described as an excellent VG+. 
Please use my detailed photos to help judge visual condition. I put the sleeve at VG+, with some signs of wear around edges and spine. Minimal spindle wear. 
Someone asked if it has the speaking in the lead out groove of side 2, it does, on the final groove it repeats endlessly.  

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"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967, it spent 27 weeks at number one on the Record Retailer chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the United States. It was lauded by critics for its innovations in songwriting, production and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for reflecting the interests of contemporary youth and the counterculture. Its release was a defining moment in 1960s pop culture, heralding the Summer of Love, while the album's reception achieved full cultural legitimisation for pop music and recognition for the medium as a genuine art form.
At the end of August 1966, the Beatles permanently retired from touring and pursued individual interests for the next three months. During a return flight to London in November, Paul McCartney had an idea for a song involving an Edwardian military band that formed the impetus of the Sgt. Pepper concept. Sessions began on 24 November at EMI Studios with compositions inspired by the Beatles' youth, but after pressure from EMI, the songs "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" were released as a double A-side single in February 1967 and left off the LP.
The album was loosely conceptualised as a performance by the fictional Sgt. Pepper band, an idea that was conceived after recording the title track. A key work of British psychedelia, it incorporates a range of stylistic influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, and Western and Indian classical music. The band continued the technological experimentation marked by their previous album, Revolver, this time without an absolute deadline for completion. With producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick, the group coloured much of the recordings with sound effects and tape manipulation, as exemplified on "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" and "A Day in the Life". Recording was completed on 21 April. The cover, which depicts the Beatles posing in front of a tableau of celebrities and historical figures, was designed by the pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth.
Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the roles of sound composition, extended form, psychedelic imagery, record sleeves, and the producer in popular music. The album had an immediate cross-generational impact and was associated with numerous touchstones of the era's youth culture, such as fashion, drugs, mysticism, and a sense of optimism and empowerment. It is considered one of the first art rock LPs, a progenitor to progressive rock, and the start of the album era. In 1968, it won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour; in 2003 it was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. It has topped several critics' and listeners' polls for the best album of all time, including those published by Rolling Stone magazine and in the book All Time Top 1000 Albums, and the UK's "Music of the Millennium" poll. It remains one of the best-selling albums of all time and the UK's best-selling studio album, with more than 32 million copies sold worldwide as of 2011.The Beatles ?– Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

Some info courtesy of discogs: -
Parlophone ?– PMC 7027 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: UK Released: 26 May 1967 Genre: Rock, Pop Style: Rock & Roll, Psychedelic Rock, Pop Rock
Tracklist A1 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 2:02 A2 With A Little Help From My Friends 2:44 A3 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 3:28 A4 Getting Better 2:47 A5 Fixing A Hole 2:37 A6 She's Leaving Home 3:23 A7 Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite ! 2:35
B1 Within You Without You 5:06 B2 When I'm Sixty-Four 2:38 B3 Lovely Rita 2:44 B4 Good Morning Good Morning 2:36 B5 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) 1:19 B6 A Day In The Life 5:02
Companies, etc. Record Company – E.M.I. Records Record Company – The Gramophone Co. Ltd. Phonographic Copyright (p) – The Gramophone Co. Ltd. Copyright (c) – Northern Songs Ltd. Published By – Northern Songs Pressed By – The Gramophone Co. Ltd. Printed By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Made By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
Credits Assemblage [Wax Figures] – Madame Tussauds Assemblage, Set Designer, Sleeve – Jann Haworth Design, Artwork [Liner, Uncredited] – Marijke Koger, Simon Posthuma Painting, Artwork [Insert] – Peter Blake (4) Photography By – Michael Cooper (8) Producer – George Martin Written-By – Harrison* (tracks: B1), Lennon-McCartney (tracks: A1 to A7, B2 to B6)
Notes 1st UK pressings, with: A Garrod & Lofthouse laminated gatefold cover (flipback glue-tabs on inner spread); A red half-tone print on white 'psychedelic' inner sleeve; A 'cut-outs' card insert (full-color, single-sided. Printed signatures of Blake/Haworth at foot); A black and yellow logo label with silver text: "The Gramophone Co." in the radial text and "Sold in the U.K. Subject To Resale Price Conditions, See Price Lists" across label at center, with "Made in Gt. Britain" at foot.
? 1967 Northern Songs, NCB
Narrow spine. Wide spine 1st press here: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Variant 3, Side 2, runout figures at 9 o'clock are very difficult to identify, having been stamped then overstamped.
Durations were found and entered by timing every track of a copy of this exact release.
1st June 1967 as date of release of this album is stated on the official Beatles website (thebeatles.com).
Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (A-side label matrix): XEX.637 Matrix / Runout (B-side label matrix): XEX.638 Rights Society: NCB Other (A or B-side Tax Code label embossing): KT Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 1): XEX 637-1 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 1): XEX 638-1 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 2): XEX 637-1 1 MRT Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 2): XEX 638-1 0 MAO Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 3): XEX 637-1 AOM 6 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 3): XEX 638-1 ART 8GCOBB 8 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 4): XEX 637-1 ATA 3 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 4): XEX 638-1 APR 0 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 5): XEX 637-1 ARO 1 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 5): XEX 638-1 AAM 3 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 6): XEX 637-1 AAH 3 7 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 6): XEX 638-1 RHR 1 9 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 7): XEX 637-1 AOL 2 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 7): XEX 638-1 AAL 9 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 8): XEX 637-1 MAT 6 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 8): XEX 638–1 ALP 0 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 9): XEX 637-1 RDM EF Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 9): XEX 638-1 HGA 8 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 10): XEX 637-1 GPR 3 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 10): XEX 638-1 GPL 3 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 11): XEX 637-1 MGL 1 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 11): XEX 638-1 MDL 9 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 12): XEX 637-1 MMP D Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 12): XEX 638-1 MMH 9 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 13): XEX 637-1 MAL 6 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 13): XEX 638-1 MRM 7 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 14): XEX 638-1 AO T 2 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 14): XEX 638-1 A RR 2 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 15): XEX 637-1 AOP 1 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 15): XEX 638-1 ADA 3 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 16): XEX 637-1 ALH 4 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 16): XEX 638-1 MMO 10 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 17): XEX 637-1 APH 2 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 17): XEX 638-1 AOA 7 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 18): XEX 637-1 TD 1 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 18): XEX 638-1 GO 1 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 19): XEX 637-1 GGA 2 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 19): XEX 638-1 RTT 3 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 20): XEX 637-1 GOR 6 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 20): XEX 638-1 GAD 2 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 21): XEX 637-1 GGT 4 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 21): XEX 638-1 OT 35 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 22): XEX 637-1 MA 3 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 22): XEX 638-1 LG 2 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 23): XEX 637-1 GHA 6 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 23): XEX 638-1 GHG 3 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 24): XEX 637-1 GRM 2 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 24): XEX 638-1 GRG 3 Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, stamped, variant 25): XEX 637-1 MMP 37 Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, stamped, variant 25): XEX 638-1 MDG 7