MONO MINT RED WAX BEATLES SGT PEPPER ACID POP Psych

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SCARCE JAPANESE DELUXE *RED VINYL* WITH INSERT = MONO

      COMPLETE WITH "OBI" STRIP = ALL MINT!

                    The BEATLES   

   SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND

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MINT CLEAN ODEON RECORDS...LIMITED EDITION *RED WAX* in glorious MONO with the big-beat punchy production...The 'rare' mono pressing has been long sought after and contains not only different song mixes from the stero but a strong punchy (mono) sound production that is much different from the stereo release.

Superior supersonic Japanese vinyl with lyrics pages insert ....Japanese vinyl releases are premium quality pressings, much sought after by audiophiles and collectors alike. In the 1960s Toshiba pioneered top quality red vinyl pressings using their trademark ‘Ever-Clean’ process this utilised a special ingredient intended to prevent the build-up of static electricity on the vinyl. Japanese pressings are synonymous with quality - the vinyl shines like no other vinyl - everything about their releases feels special. When US audiophile label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab first released their series of high quality pressings the records were manufactured in Japan. The sonic quality of Japanese pressings is considered to be among the best in the world and, in addition, they are beautifully presented, their covers usually printed on better quality heavy stock paper and often including a bonus lyric insert with dual language Japanese & English text.

This is a NICE collectible that is not getting any easier to find...future investment item....

    Includes the all important original outer "OBI" strip to the pressing...

"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.

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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 - drums
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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

CONDITION: The cover The THICK gatefold cover is delightful MINT ...pristine, crisp clean and sharp all over.

The vinyl is all glossy clean, MINT looks and plays top level...

The Odeon labels, obi strip and fold out insert is MINT....

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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