SIMPLY UNBELIEVABLE NOT ONLY IS IT A MEGA RARE  UK 1 BOX EMI MONO COPY BUT AN IMPOSSIBLE NEAR MINT PLAYING EXAMPLE IN SUPER CONDITION  -   YOU WILL STRUGGLE TO FIND  ANY  EXAMPLE ON EBAY LET ALONE ONE AS CLEAN AS THIS AND IT MAY EVEN BE A FINAL UPGARD COPY, THE ONLY FLAW I CAN REALLY DETECT IS THAT THERE ARE A NUMBER OF SPINDLE TRACES ON THE LABELS YET HARDLY A MARK ON THE VINYL WHICH IS VERY ODD....L@@K 

FOR THOSE THAT DO NOT KNOW THE STORY , IN 1969 MUCH OF THE EMI STABLE CHANGED THEIR LABELS TO THE " BOXED " EMI LABELS, THE FIRST INCARNATION BEING THE SINGLE BOXED EMI AT THE BOTTOM. HOWEVER THIS CHANGE DID NOT OCCUR ACCROSS THE GROUP ALL AT ONCE, EMI/COLUMBIA MADE THE CHANGE AROUND JULY 1969 BUT PARLOPHONE AND HMV WERE ONE OF THE LAST OF THE STABLE TO  MAKE THE CHANGE  AROUND JANUARY 1970 !

BY THIS TIME MONO HAD ALMOST BEEN COMPLETELY PHASED OUT BY EMI WITH ONLY A HANDLEFUL OF DISCS FROM MID 1969 BEING GIVEN BOTH A STEREO AND A MONO RELEASE. AS SUCH IT IS AMAZING THAT WHEN PARLOPHONE SWITCHED TO THE ONE BOX LABEL THAT EMI WOULD EVEN BOTHER WITH PRESSING ANY MONO VARIANT WITH THIS LABEL, HOWEVER THEY DID AND THESE EXAMPLES ARE INCREDIBLY RARE.

I BELEIVE ONLY THREE BEATLES LP'S EXSIST WITH A ONE BOX MONO LABEL, PLEASE PLEASE ME, HELP AND THIS ONE, SGT PEPPER. WHY EMI BOTHERED WITH THESE THREE LP'S WE DO NOT KNOW BUT SUCH COPIES THAT THERE ARE EXSIST IN ONLY TINY NUMBERS AND  ITS MY PLEASURE TO PRESENT THIS COPY FOR AUCTION HERE!

NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS IS A SUPERB LOOKING COPY INDEED, WITH A LOVELY SHEEN TO THE VINYL AND A REALLY LOVELY MONO SLEEVE 

ANYBODY WHO HAS TRAWLED THE INTERNET AND BOUGHT WHAT THEY HAD THOUGHT LOOKED LIKE A FABULOUS COPY OF THIS LP ONLY TO BE DISSAPOINTED TIME AND TIME AGAIN UPON IT'S ARRIVAL WILL KNOW WHERE I AM COMMING FROM.... 

FOR SOME REASON ( PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THE GROUNDBREAKING LACK OF RACK BANDING ) THESE EARLY PEPPERS UPON CLOSE INSPECTION APPEAR DULLED WITH MANY SURFACE / BAG REMOVAL MARKS  MARKS. ALSO THE EARLIER FLIPBACK SLEEVES ALSO SEEM TO SURVIVE BADLY, ESPECIALLY AT THE SPINE SO IT IS SUCH A JOY TO KNOW THAT WITH THIS COPY YOU WILL NOT TO BE DISSAPOINTED ...

THE BEATLES WERE INVOLVED DIRECTLY IN THE MONO MIX AND BECAUSE IT IS QUITE DIFFERENT TO THE STEREO MIX WHICH IS THE MIX MOST OF US ARE MOST FAMILAIR WITH, MONO COPIES ARE MORE SOUGHT AFTER AND TO FIND A 1 BOX MONO IS, WELL NEED I SAY IT..... 

SO GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS !!

DOMESTIC DISPATCH WILL BE BY SIGNED FOR DELIVERY , THIS IS TO PREVENT FRAUDULANT CLAIMS OF NON RECEIPT IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS THEN PLEASE FEEL FREE NOT TO BID ! INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE SEE MY NOTES BELOW 

For Auction here is the UK LP ''  SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND " 

ARTIST:  THE BEATLES

MONO/STEREO: MONO

Cat. No : PMC 7027

LABEL: PARLOPHONE  

COUNTRY: UK

DATE: 1967

MATRICIES:  -1 -1

VINYL WEIGHT: 140g

MOTHER/STAMPERS : 7MOD  2MDL

THE CONDITION

SLEEVE:  MONO SLEEVE WITH JUST STUNNING  RAZOR SHARP OPENINGS,  JUST THE ODD HALF MOON CREASE   BUT WITH A NEAR PERFECT  SPINE  GRADES EXCELLENT PLUS EASY MAYBE HIGHER.

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VINYL VISUAL : AMAZINGLY RETAINS MUCH OF ITS DEEP SHINE WHICH IS SO RARE WITH PEPPERS AS I HAVE SAID ABOVE , IN NORMAL LIGHT IT LOOKS NOT FAR OFF NEAR MINT BUT WHILST THERE ARE SOME THE WHISPY BAG REMOVAL AND THE ODD LIGHT MARK IF HELD UNDER A HALOGEN LAMP  I HAVE NO PROBLEM IN GRADING THIS COPY AS  EXCELLENT EASY

VINYL PLAY, ON MY SYSTEM THIS PLAYS NEAR PERFECT WITH BEARLY EVEN A CRACKLE ON THE FADE OUT CHORD WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE. A COUPLE OF TICKS AT THE START OF SIDE TWO BUT THAT WAS ABOUT IT, PLAYS FOR THE MOST PART IN COMPLETE SILENCE DURING THE QUIET PASSAGES AND IS SIMPLY AMAZING !!

LABELS:   EVIDENCE OF PLAY OUT OF COMMSERANCE WITH THE VINYL SO GRADE EXCELLENT- 

INSERT: AGAIN NO SERIOUS FLAWS, GRADES EXCELLENT ++

A REALLY LOVELY EXAMPLE OF A VERY RARE PRESSING, MAY BE CLOSE TO A FINAL UPGRADE - GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS,

FOR BIDDERS OUTSIDE UK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT...  non uk bidders please read my notes about international postage below.....returns policy only applies to UK outside of UK buyer has to cover the return postage! FOR INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT due to ebays revised " buyer " protection policy even more sellers will start to refuse to sell internationally. I however will still sell internationally but i reserve the right to not to complete any international transaction if the buyer has any bad or witheld feedback or for any other reason that I choose and this is especially so for items that sell for near to GBP 150 or higher. So if you are an international bidder and win one of my auctions and then find I have completed the transaction elsewhere this will be because the new ebay/paypal policy now makes it almost impossible for sellers to sell safely overseas, thank you

FOR BIDDERS WITH ZERO FEEDBACK THIS IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT...   I have recently been the victim of serveral spurious bids from several different members (usually based in the Russian Federation). Please note that if you win any of my items and have zero feedback I will ask you for immediate payment or for you to email and immediately confirm that you were a genuine bidder. Failiure to meet either of those critiera will result in the item being  offered to the next highest bidder without further delay. thank you.

INSURANCE INCLUDED IN P&P PRICE DEPENDING ON FINAL SALE VALUE...

Dont forget to take a look at my other items. Please feel free to contact me with any queries you may have.

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I ONLY DO A COUPLE OF RUNS A WEEK TO THE POST OFFICE BUT MY ITEMS ARE ALWAYS DISPATCHED WELL WITHIN ONE CALENDAR WEEK OF PAYMENT BEING RECEIVED. I APOLOGISE IN ADVANCE TO THOSE BUYERS WHO SEEM TO EXPECT THEIR ITEM TO ARRIVE THE NEXT DAY, IF YOU WANT TO CHECK WHEN AN ITEM WAS SENT JUST PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND I WILL BE VERY HAPPY TO TELL YOU!! (SOME PEOPLE DO MAKE YOU LAUGH, FOR ITEMS I BUY I ONLY NORMALLY GET CONCERNED AFTER A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND EVEN AFTER THAT THEN ONLY POLIETELY ENQUIRE IF AND WHEN THE ITEM WAS SENT).

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PAYMENTS BY PAYPAL ARE PREFERRED BUT I ALSO ACCEPT OTHER METHODS. I ALSO POST WORLDWIDE (PLS APPLY FOR RATES) BUT DUE TO A PROBLEM WITH A DISREPUTABLE BUYER IN JAPAN (EBAY WILL NOT ALLOW ME TO NAME THEM) , FOR ALL PAYMENTS MADE VIA PAYPAL THE ITEM WILL ONLY BE SENT BOTH TO THE UK AND WORLDWIDE BY RECORDED OR INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR DELIVERY. THIS IS TO ELIMINATE THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY ATTEMPT TO CLAIM BACK THE PAYMENT VIA PAYPAL EVEN AFTER ACTUALLY HAVING RECEIVED THE ITEM.

THIS OBVIOUSLY HAS HAD THE RESULT OF INCREASING MY COSTS FOR POSTING AND PACKING AND I AM VERY SORRY FOR THIS BUT PAYPAL OFFER NO PROTECTION FOR SELLERS UNLESS THERE IS PROOF OF DELIVERY!! PROOF OF POSTING WOULD SEEM INSUFFICIENT TO THEM AND I HAVE FOUND THIS OUT THE HARD WAY.. 

DUE TO THE BEHAVIOUR OF THIS SAME BUYER PAYPAL PAYMENTS WILL ALSO NOT BE ACCEPTED FROM BUYERS WHO DO NOT ALLOW THEIR FEEDBACK TO READ, SO IF YOU FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY PLEASE DO NOT BID ON MY ITEMS UNLESS YOU CAN PAY BY ANOTHER METHOD…….

COST VIA INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR MAIL TO EUROPE HAS RECENTLY INCREASED SO FOR A SINGLE LP IS NOW USUALLY GBP 9.99 AND TO THE USA/REST OF THE WORLD GBP 13.99 FOR A SINGLE LP AND 16.99 FOR A DOUBLE BASED ON A "DECLARED" VALUE OF UNDER GBP 50...EACH ADDITIONAL LP SENT COMBINED WITH THIS PLEASE ADD G 2.00 PER EXTRA DISC

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