1967 ORIG RUBY RED WAX ODEON "SGT PEPPERS..." BEATLES Psych Rock WORLD CLASS LP

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• SCARCE / MINTY 1967 ODEON  ORIGINAL FIRST PRINT
• RED VINYL
  
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•  THE BEATLES 
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• "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band"
  
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• JAPAN - OP 8163 (stereophonic)
  
Matrix / Runout (Label side A): YEX-637

1. SUPERB MINTY FINAL COLLECTION COPY!
   VERY RARE .... guaranteed => from 57 years
    U.K. Parlophone metal masters...
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3. SHARP / VIBRANT stereo mastering, 
4. detailed sound stage, and a top-notch pressing all around.
   
   PRESSE
5. "Pepper was probably the one Beatle album I can say was my idea," Paul McCartney stated...
   
   "It was my idea to say to the guys, 'Hey, how about disguising ourselves and getting an alter ego, because we're the Beatles '. 
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7. 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.
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   DAZZLING transparent RED VINYL
   
9. SGT PEPPERS 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
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         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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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    CONDITION:
20. The cover: rated: M- sterling top-copy. beautiful colorful gatefold - see visual photos from the very artifact  ...there won't be any delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ...COMPLETELY sharp and striking!
    

1. The vinyl: Rated: M-  RUBY RED VINYL visually lightly carefully handled over past 55years... playing with brilliant wide-range clean audio, no surface distractions ... both silver/black ODEON labels are ultimately clean

1. a COOL addition to anyone's music library!