SEALED (NO NEMS OR MACLEN) 100% 1967 FIRST PRINT ?The BEATLES ? SGT PEPPER Psych

$

1,999

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   1967 ORIGINAL GUARANTEED FIRST PRINT (NO NEMS/MCLEN) PRINT

  FACTORY SEALED = NEVER OPENED - NEVER PLAYED - NO BARCODE!   

                                                                                            

                                                         

                   THE BEATLES

                      SGT PEPPER

                                                                        

                USA - ( RAINBOW - ) CAPITOL - ST 2653

One of the most important albums in ROCK history!

THE BEAUTIFUL PRISTINE COPY, FLAT & SQUARE!

NEVER OPENED - NEVER PLAYED! NO BARCODE!

100% GUARANTEED FIRST VARIATION PRINT, NO NEMS, NO MACLEN CREDITS

General notes garnered from an in-the-know Beatles god-squad source:

How do you know this is an original MAY 26, 1967 first variation printing ?

                     
When you see an original sealed MONO copy of Pepper hit the market, it's immediately known that it's a first pressing, because Capitol stopped issuing mono LP's at the end of '67.

With a STEREO pressing, however, Capitol used the "yellow stereo banner" cover into the 1970's. So, there's two ways one can verify this is a true original May 26, 67 FIRST pressing.

First, there were three early variations of the cover:

On back cover, at the bottom lower right, the very first May 26, 1967 printing, the right bottom of the back cover did not have a copyright claim for NEMS (Brian Epstein's company) or the control rights statement for Maclen Music (the McCartney/Lennon publishing company). These were legal claims that had been omitted. The NEMS info was added for the second cover variation and the Maclen was also added for the third variation. The third variation was printed from 1967 on. The first two variations were both printed ONLY in 1967. This cover is the FIRST variation without "Nems" or "Mclean" info added!

The LP is FACTORY sealed with one visible correct breather hole in the shrink ... There are NO splits, no bends, no tears, no fade, or no holes in the cover! It looks fantastic frozen in time from 1967!

This is a STUNNING piece of history!

A factory sealed original copy of the greatest and most iconic LP in pop music history is not something you may EVER see again. This is an INVESTMENT-GRADE piece of Beatles history!

We've been doing this for MANY years and have dealt in many high end Beatles. We've bought and sold our fair share of butcher covers and Vee Jay albums, BUT this is the FIRST and ONLY one of these we've EVER had.

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ATTENTION: this FACTORY SEALED legendary BEATLES LP is arguably the most important body of work in the bands storied history::::

NO BAR CODE - NO NEMS - NO MACLEN CREDITS ON BACK COVER

"A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS" and not: "With A Little Help From My Friends"

A "For Sure" investment collectible....will only rise in value as time gores by ... already 50 years old, imagine the value when it reaches 100 years and is still pristine factory sealed!

**** UNDOUBTABLY includes the PEPPERLAND CUT OUTS INSERT

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"Pepper" was probably the one Beatle album I can say was my idea," McCartney says. "It was my idea to say to the guys, 'Hey, how about disguising ourselves and getting an alter ego, because we're the Beatles '. McCartney added: "I just listened to it and said to myself, 'God, I really love this album.' Still, today, it just sounds so fresh. It sounds full of ideas. These guys knew what they were doing. They're good. And they're inventive. I haven't heard anything for years that's as inventive. I don't really expect to."

After the Beatles stopped touring in 1966, they had time to explore in greater depth the possibilities of the recording studio with producer George Martin. The magnitude of the Beatles phenomenon was starting to encroach on the band - and their experience with psychedelic drugs made that phenomenon seem increasingly surreal. Apart from some relatively modest touches - the colorful uniforms, the opening theme song, the reprise near the end and Ringo's entertaining turn as "the one and only Billy Shears" in "With a Little Help from My Friends" - the alter egos make no discernible appearances on the album. But one look at the cover of "Sgt. Pepper" - festooned with the band's wildly eclectic gallery of heroes and with the wax figures of the youthful Fab Four standing next to their far more hirsute and serious-looking real-life counterparts - eloquently tells how greatly removed the group had grown from what they were. Under the guise of alter egos the Beatles had finally allowed their real selves to emerge.

Interestingly, however, the Beatles had freed themselves not merely to chronicle such weighty subjects as the joys of mind-expanding drugs, in "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," the paradoxical wisdom of Eastern religious philosophy, in "Within You Without You," or the sterile absurdity of mainstream values in the astonishing "Day in the Life." On the contrary, Sgt. Pepper is filled with sly inside jokes, broad music-hall humor and completely gratuitous novelties. It is not only the Beatles' most artistically ambitious album but their funniest.

Take, for example, the dog whistle - which humans can't hear - buried on the album's second side. And the famous "Inner Groove" - the snippet of pointless conversation that sticks in the album's run-out groove and that was not included in the original American version of "Sgt. Pepper" - has an equally zany genesis. Around the time of "Sgt. Pepper's" release, McCartney explains, "a lot of record players didn't have auto-change. You would play an album and it would go, 'Tick, tick, tick,' in the run-out groove - it would just stay there endlessly. We were whacked out so much of the time in the Sixties - just quite harmlessly, as we thought, it was quite innocent - but you would be at friends' houses, twelve at night, and nobody would be going to get up to change that record player. So we'd be getting into the little 'tick, tick, tick,': 'It's quite good, you know? There's a rhythm there.' These are minor points, perhaps, in the context of the enormous achievement of "Sgt. Pepper". But such fun-loving experimentalism - born of the optimistic determination to blow away anything that "stops my mind from wandering where it will go" - is "Sgt. Pepper's" best legacy for our time.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (2:02)

Recorded: February 1, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubbing February 2, March 3, and March 6, 1967
John Lennon - lead guitar, background vocal
Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar
George Harrison - lead guitar, background vocal
Ringo Starr - drums
George Martin - organ
Session musicians - four horns With a Little Help From My Friends (2:44) Recorded: March 29, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added March 30, 1967
John Lennon - background vocal
Paul McCartney - bass guitar, piano, background vocal
George Harrison - tambourine
Ringo Starr - lead vocal, drums Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (3:29) Recorded: March 1, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added March 2, 1967
John Lennon - lead vocal, lead guitar
Paul McCartney - bass guitar, Hammond organ, harmony vocal
George Harrison - sitar, harmony vocal
Ringo Starr - drums Getting Better (2:48) Recorded: March 9, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubbing March 10, March 21 and March 23, 1967
John Lennon - lead guitar, background vocal
Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar, background vocal
George Harrison - lead guitar, tamboura, background vocal
Ringo Starr - drums, bongos
George Martin - piano strings Fixing a Hole (2:36) Recorded: February 9, 1967 at Regent Sound Studio, London, England with overdubbing February 21, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England
John Lennon - maracas, background vocal
Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar, lead guitar, harpsichord
George Harrison - lead guitar, double-tracked lead guitar solo, background vocal
Ringo Starr She's Leaving Home (3:35) Recorded: March 17, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with vocals overdubbed March 20, 1967
John Lennon - lead vocal, background vocal
Paul McCartney - lead vocal, background vocal
Session musicians - strings, harp Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite! (2:37) Recorded: February 17, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubbing February 20, March 28-29 and March 31, 1967
John Lennon - lead vocal, Hammond organ (main melody)
Paul McCartney - bass guitar, lead guitar
George Harrison - harmonica
Ringo Starr - drums, harmonica
George Martin - Wurlitzer organ (countermelody), piano
Mal Evans - harmonica
Neil Aspinall - harmonica Within You Without You (5:06) Recorded: March 15, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubbing March 22, 1967 and April 3, 1967
George Harrison - lead vocal, tamboura
Neil Aspinall - tamboura
Indian session musicians - dilruba, tamboura, tabla, swordmandel
Session musicians - eight violins, three cellos When I'm Sixty-Four (2:37) Recorded: December 6, 1966 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added December 8 and December 20-21, 1966
John Lennon - lead guitar, background vocal
Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar, piano, background vocal
George Harrison - background vocal
Ringo Starr - drums
Session musicians - bass clarinet, two clarinets Lovely Rita (2:42) Recorded: February 23, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added February 24, March 7 and March 21, 1967
John Lennon - acoustic guitar, comb and paper, background vocal
Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar, piano, comb and paper, background vocal
George Harrison - acoustic guitar, comb and paper, background vocal
Ringo Starr - drums
George Martin - honky-tonk piano Good Morning, Good Morning (2:42) Recorded: February 8, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added February 16, March 13 and March 28-29, 1967
John Lennon - lead vocal, background vocal
Paul McCartney - bass guitar, lead guitar and solo, background vocal
George Harrison - lead guitar
Ringo Starr - drums
Sounds Incorporated - three saxophones, two trombones, French horn Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (1:19) Recorded: April 1, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England
John Lennon - lead vocal, lead guitar, maracas
Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar
George Harrison - lead vocal, lead guitar
Ringo Starr - drums A Day in the Life (5:33) Recorded: January 19, 1967 (basic track) and February 10, 1967 (orchestral track) at Abbey Road, London, England with the final-chord ending overdubbed February 22, 1967
John Lennon - lead vocal (first, second and last verses), acoustic guitar, lead guitar
Paul McCartney - lead vocal (middle section), piano, conducts the forty-one-piece orchestra
Ringo Starr - drums
Lennon, McCartney, Starr, Mal Evans - three pianos (final chord)
George Martin - harmonium
Mal Evans - alarm clock
Session musicians - forty-one-piece orchestra

The vinyl is

CONDITION:: The thick gatefold cover: STILL FACTORY SEALED ...All solid & pristine with "breather hole" in outer cellophane (shows is not a re-wrap) ...

There is NO BARCODE

There are NO NEMS and NO MACLEN credits on back cover

"A Little Help From My Friends and not "With A Little Help From My Friends" on back cover.

Vibrant original colors with NO wear anywhere. NO "RUB WEAR" to the outer cellophane!

NO delete marks, no bends, no writing, no split seams, NO torn or frayed or missing outer cellophane -- Still with 1967 era store price sticker on outer cellophane... For certain an incredible investment collectible in still sealed condition!

MAY 26 1967 RELEASED FIRST VARIATION PRINTING::: NEVER OPENED / NEVER PLAYED - STILL FACTORY SEALED

                        

 

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record

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