The Beatles - Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club.

ORIGINAL UK 1st PRESS - 1967

MONO

Yellow & Black Parlophone label.

1st press matrix  -1 / -1

Early mother stampers!

KT  TAX stamps

Red Fool's Swirl Inner

Green Peter Blake Cutouts

NICE CONDITION!!!!

Serial number: PMC 7027

VERY EARLY Matrix numbers...

Side 1 = XEX 637-1

Side 2 = XEX 638-1

EARLY 1st Mother & stampers codes!!!

Side 1 = 3 AHL

                 7

Side 2 = 3 AOO

Background...

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967,[nb 1] 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. Critics lauded the album 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.

The vinyl is lovely, it has a super glossy sheen and  sits completely flat with no warping. Lovely clean labels and fab spindle holes!!! There are three or four light non feelable surface lines visible. Spindle trails can be seen.

The red Fool's Swirl Inner is EXCELLENT, has retained a good colour and has NO splits orctears.

The green Peter Blake cutouts are also EXCELLENT as seem to have been kept inside the gatefold.

The outer GATEFOLD cover  is great for age... Is still lovely and glossy, has no splits or tears. Has minor film crinkles and age wear to the corners/edges/spine as to be expected for an item of this age. Has sun stripes to the front.

OVERALL A FANTASTIC, ORIGINAL AND COMPLETE SET TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION!!!

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