BEATLES: SGT. PEPPER (1rst PRESS MONO) NO RINGWEAR/ALL INSERTS - BEAUTIFUL

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THE BEATLES Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Capitol MAS-2653
Spizer LP - 2653.MR1A COVER - 2653.MC1 INSERT & CUT-OUT SHEET
This is coming from my personal collection. I purchased it in the 90's.
CONDITION  LP: M- COVER: VG+ (NO RINGWEAR; some wear)

I have taken photos of every flaw that I can find.  Please look at them in the large view.  As a Beatles collector for >30 years I think you will find that finding one like this is VERY hard to find.
IMAGES 1) Front cover (no ringwear)
2)   Gatefold mid (small split (~1.5")in the middle of the gatefold. Unfortunately, this happened when it was shipped to me over 20 years ago - the seller packed it with the LP placed in the gatefold, and the nice, thick, heavy vinyl split the inner middle.
Back cover - NO ringwear. very small dent top left corner; small nick (ink chipped) next to the EMI logo. 
Inner Sleeve - Psychedelic original.  No splits.
Cut-out - mint
June 1, 1967 – The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released. # ALL THINGS MUSIC PLUS+ 5/5 (MUST-HAVE! - ATMP+ TOP 10)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by The Beatles, released on June 1, 1967. It topped the Billboard 200 Top LP's chart for 15 weeks, and the UK Albums chart for 27 weeks. In 2003, and again in 2012, the album was placed at number one on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".  __________________________________________
AWARDS Grammy Awards Nominated for seven Grammys in 1968, it would win four, including Album of the Year, the first rock album to receive this honor. 1968    Album of the Year 1968    Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts 1968    Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical 1968    Contemporary Album __________________________________________
     "Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club band didn’t start out life as a “concept album” but it very soon developed a life of its own. I remember it warmly, as both a tremendous challenge and a higly rewarding experience. For me, it was the most innovative, imaginative and trend-setting record of its time." - George Martin   
“The Beatles definitely had an eternal curiosity for doing something different,” says George Martin, producer of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Cerainly this album was entirely different to anything which had gone before, and although it has been much imitated since, it remains today a unique, epochal record one which revolutionized the entire recording industry and caused such vast repercussions that its influence will very probably be felt for as long as music is written and performed.
The Beatles’ musical ideas progressed in a most tangible way with each album they recorded. Geoff Emerick, the recording engineer who with George Martin formed the imaginative team which translated the Beatles’ requirements onto tape, once totted up the number of hours put into the making of Sgt. Pepper and came up with 700.  Please Please Me, the Beatles’ first album, was recorded in 585 minutes.
“The Beatles insisted that everything on Sgt. Pepper had to be different,” say Emerick, “so everything was either distorted, limited, heavily compressed or treated with excessive equalization. We had microphones right down the bells of the brass instruments and headphones turned into microphones attached to violins. We plastered vast amounts of echo onto vocals, and sent them through the circuitry of the revolving Leslie speaker inside a Hammond organ. We used giant primitive oscillators to vary the speed of instruments and vocals and we had tapes chopped to pieces and stuck together upside down and the wrong way round.” 
The very end of the album typifies the advanced studio trickery applied throughout Sgt. Pepper. After the last droplets of the crashing piano chord of ‘A Day In The Life’ have evaporated, come a few second of 15 kilocycle tone, put there – especially to annoy your dog – at the request of John Lennon. Then, as the coup de grace, there is a few seconds of nonsense Beatle chatter, taped, cut into several pieces and stuck back together at random so that, as George Martin says, purchasers of the vinyl album who did not have an auto return on their record player would say “What the hell’s that?” and find the curious noise going on and on ad infinitum in the concentric run-out groove.  ______________________________________________
TRACKS: All songs written and composed by Lennon–McCartney except where noted. Side one 1 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 2:02 2 With a Little Help from My Friends - 2:44 3 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - 3:28 4 Getting Better - 2:48 5 Fixing a Hole - 2:36 6 She's Leaving Home - 3:35 7 Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! - 2:37
Side two 1 Within You Without You (George Harrison) - 5:04 2 When I'm Sixty-Four - 2:37 3 Lovely Rita - 2:42 4 Good Morning Good Morning - 2:41 5 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) - 1:19 6 A Day in the Life - 5:39

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