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GRAMMY HALL OF FAME. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles, 1967 (first year)   

Proclaimed by many as the best/most influential rock album of all-time.               

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* Grammy Award for Best Album Cover

* Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical 

* Grammy Award for Best Contemporary (R&R) Performance

* Grammy Award for Album of the Year

* Grammy Nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album 

* Grammy Nomination for Best Recording Package (Visual Appeal)

* Brit Award for British Album of the Year

First rock/pop album to have an artistic inner sleeve

First rock/pop album to have the song lyrics printed for view on back cover

First rock/pop album to have a special "cut out" insert

Sgt. Pepper’s STEREO 1967 “EARLIEST PRESSING” IDENTIFIERS 

 1967 and 1968 only two years of Capitol Rainbow label on vinyl (as on this offered album)

THIS STEREO album jacket (the one listed and in photos) in Great condition (see photos): 

***EARLY Rainbow label on vinyl, pressed September ’67 through December, ’67 ONLY, as on this offered album.  There is no "subsidiary of" on the label which was added in January, '68).

***Contains red/pink/white inner vinyl slipcover (1967-68 ONLY; discontinued in 1969). 

***Also contains the green Sgt. Pepper's cutout in great shape. 

*** Words “With A Little Help from My Friends" on rainbow label, Side 1, Song #2.   Title on red album back (no “With"). 

***A-1, B-2 etched in dead vinyl, Side 1 and Side 2; early September

***MCLEN credit in bottom right corner of album back (red); 

***NEMS credit in back bottom right corner in small letters running up the spine.  

***Scranton, PA pressing

*    on dead vinyl near rainbow label indicates Los Angeles pressing

O   on dead vinyl near rainbow label indicates Jacksonville, Illinois, pressing

SMALL TRIANGLE with "I AM" inside on dead vinyl indicates Scranton, PA, pressing

***Upper right back (red) corner, SMAS 2653 indicates STEREO (catalog # only; not an absolute indicator of a very early 1967 pressing.)  MAS 2653  on some albums indicates MONO

***Front cover with yellow band at top with STEREO printed in the middle in bold. Simple thin white edge at top indicates MONO on some albums.

 REMARKABLY CLEAN and verified September-December 1967 pressing

SUBSEQUENT PRESSINGS:

3rd pressing,  January, 1968, last year of Rainbow label, "subsidiary of" added to label.

4th pressing, 1969, Lime Green Capitol label, SMAS 2653.  (Inner red/pink/white vinyl slipcover discontinued; rainbow label discontinued)

5th pressing 1971, Green Apple label, SMAS 2653 "Mfd. By Apple" on label

6th pressing 1975, Green Apple label, SMAS 2653 "All Rights Reserved..." added on label

7th pressing 1976, Orange Capitol label, SMAS 2653

8th pressing 1978, Purple Capitol label, SMAS 2653