BEATLES Magical Mystery Tour Capitol Rainbow SMAL 2835 PictureBook 1stPress 1967

	£		37
	$		48

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The Beatles
»Magical Mystery Tour«
(detailed pictures on bottom of every listing)

U.S. 1967 ~ WORLDWIDE 1st Press ~ SMAL 2835
Capitol Rainbow ~ STEREO ~ complete with picture book

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Record Details   Origin    United States Release Type   Original Release Format   Album, 12", GateFold Label   Capitol Rainbow Catalog No   SMAL 2835 Pressing   1st THIS Copy issued   November 1967 Sound Mix   stereo  Overall Grading   EX (please see details) Matrix Side A   SMAL-1-2835-A21-2 Matrix Side B   SMAL-2-2835-B24-2   Overview Pressings   1st ww   »»» November 27, 1967, Capitol Rainbow SMAL 2835 (including picture book) 2nd   1968, Capitol 2835.SR24, Scranton Black Label Colorband
("A Subsidiary of Capitol Industries INC...") 3rd   1969, Capitol Lime Green Label, SMAL 2835 4th   1971, Green Apple /w Capitol logo on side 2, SMAL 2835
(including picture book) 5th   1976, Capitol Orange Label, SMAL 2835 5th   1978, Capitol Purple Label, SMAL 2835
(large Capitol logo on top)   General Description
  Probably the fanciest of Parlophone's ideas (to our knowledge reserved to the Fabs only) was to a Double EP - In the U.S., however, label manager didn't believe in concept and success of such a "setup", which is why they decided to publish Magical Mystery Tour as a regular album. Took four more years for the Germans to join this approach (September 16, 1971, HoerZu Green Apple SHZE 327 -stereo only-), while the audience in Great Britain "waited" for almost a decade (November 19, 1976, S/B double-boxed Parlophone PCTC 255 -stereo only-).

Up for auction here is the Worldwide First Press of the album release: Black Colorband withOUT "A Subsidiary of Capitol Industries INC...", "MFD. BY CAPITOL..." on labels, equilateral triangle "IAM" placed in the run-out vinyl located between last groove of the last song and the record label, indicating the record's heritage as pressing plant Scranton, PA, as well as the 24-pages full color picture book that is bound to the record's gatefold cover...

For the British Double EP first press, please see our next listing.  

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(PLEASE NOTE that pictured record is an EXAMPLE only. It is NOT the item up for auction. Thank you.)

      Visual Grading   Cover Front   VG+ (perfect spine!) Cover Back   VG+ Cover Inside   Ex- Inner Sleeve(s)   [N/A]
(plain) Picture Book   VG+
(detached from gatefold) Label Side A   NM Label Side B   NM Vinyl Side A   EX+ Vinyl Side B   EX+   Audio Grading   Side A   [N/A] Side B   [N/A]   We use superb vinyl equipment with its heart being an Ortofan Diamond System and gold plated contacts all around.
Audible checks are performed with a Pro-Ject Audio system connected to a DENON PMA 520-AE amplifier, with a Sennheiser 350 headset.   Remarks   As for the Cover and related issues, please refer to pictures provided right after. Spine is in a perfect shape.
The 24-pages full color picture book itself is in at least VG+ condition. However, it is detached from the gatefold as a whole, hence internally completely intact. Vinyl is shiny, nice copy to look at!

Regarding audio, this copy wasn't audio graded.
We grade most of our records up for auction, but not all.

Please keep in mind that an opinion is bound to be subjective. Refer to pictures, provided extensively.
For a short explanation of applied grading, please see remarks on every listing's bottom of page.     Pictures (all pictures taken by ourselves from the record that is up for auction)                                     More rare Collectibles ~ already on auction, or soon to come (all records 2nd, 3rd, or 4th/whatever copies from our own collection)   Germany, 1st, ZTOX 5550, EXPORT U.K., 1st, PCS 3071, STEREO, early GR Germany, 1st, SMO 74161, EXPORT, Label Error U.K., 1st, PMC 7027, MONO in EX Germany, 1st WW, SMO 74 585, Near MINT U.K, 1st, PCS 7088, MISaligned Apple  

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