Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – first UK Mono pressing 1967 – Parlophone PMC 7207

Celebrating it's 50th anniversary, this is a 1st UK pressing on the Parlophone label  (PMC 7027), featuring

A Garrod & Lofthouse laminated gatefold cover (flipback glue-tabs on inner spread); A red half-tone print on white 'psychedelic' inner sleeve; An original 'cut-outs' card insert (full-colour, single-sided. Printed signatures of Blake/Haworth at foot); A black and yellow Parlophone 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. Matrix / Runout (A-side run-out, stamped, variant 1): XEX 637-1 Matrix / Runout (B-side run-out, stamped, variant 1): XEX 638-1

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by 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. The album was recognized for its innovations in music production, songwriting and graphic design, bridging a cultural divide between popular music and legitimate art, and symbolizing the 1960s counterculture. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour.

Sgt. Pepper's album cover was designed by the pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth from an ink drawing by McCartney. ]It was art-directed by Robert Fraser and photographed by Michael Cooper.The front of the LP included a colourful collage featuring the Beatles in costume as the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, standing with a group of life-sized cardboard cut-outs of famous people.

The album's inner sleeve features featuring an abstract artwork , (a pattern of waves of maroon, red, pink and white) by the Dutch design team the Fool. Also included here is the sheet of cardboard cut-outs, designed by Blake and Haworth that came with the original issue.

Track Listing:

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1:57

With A Little Help From My Friends 2:34

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 3:21

Getting Better 2:42

Fixing A Hole 2:29

She's Leaving Home 3:19

Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite ! 2:35

Within You Without You 4:57

When I'm Sixty-Four 2:34

Lovely Rita 2:39

Good Morning Good Morning 2:30

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) 1:17

A Day In The Life 4:55