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This first press (UK version) of The Beatles Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band comes complete and in overall excellent condition with the original inner sleeve protecting the vinyl record, Sgt Pepper’s cut out card and original outer sleeve with lyrics from 1967.

Side 1

Matrix Number: YEX .637 - 1

Master Stamp Numbers: 1 GP

Embossed in centre: K T

1. Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

2. A Little Help From My Friends

3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

4. Getting Better

5. Fixing A Hole

6. She’s Leaving Home

7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (John Lennon & Paul McCartney)

Side 2

Matrix Number: YEX .638 - 1

Master Stamp Numbers: 2 M

1. Within You Without You (George Harrison)

2. When I’m Sixty-Four

3. Lovely Rita

4. Good Morning, Good Morning

5. Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)

6. A Day In The Life (John Lennon & Paul McCartney

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the 8th studio album by the English rock band The Beatles.

Released on 26 May 1967 in the United Kingdom, it spent 27 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart and 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the US. It was lauded by critics for its innovations in production, songwriting 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. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour.

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.

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. It is described as one of the first art rock LPs, a progenitor to progressive rock, and the starting point of the album era.

In 2003, the Library of Congress placed Sgt. Pepper in the National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Rolling Stone ranked it as the greatest album of all time. It is one of the best-selling albums of all time, with more than 32 million copies sold worldwide as of 2011, and remains the UK's best-selling studio album.

Professor Kevin Dettmar, writing in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, described it as "the most important and influential rock-and-roll album ever recorded"

There are a few minor marks to the surface of this record (as pictured) that don’t effect sound or playback, playing through fantastically, uninterrupted with no skipping.

The Condition is, of course, used. Dispatched with Royal Mail 1st Class.