BEATLES STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER 1ST PRESSSUPERBE

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	$		106

THE BEATLES ''STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER'' AND ''PENNY LANE'' AN WASOME AUDIO SOUNDING 7'' 1ST UK PRESS BY THE BEATLES EXTREEMELY RARE IN THISCONDITION MINT AUDIO CAT NO. R 5570 PARLOPHONE RECORDS UK PRESSING 1967.!!!!! VERY RARE ORIGINAL SOLID CENTER VINYL GRADES EXCELLENT PLUS\NEAR MINT ''MADE IN GT.BRITAIN'' WITH THE ORIGINAL PICTURE SLEEVE LIMITED EDITION AND VERY HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER!!!!!!!!

Please note this is very hard to find in decent condition that plays well and the solid centered pressings are more sought after and rarer!!!

A limited number were released with picture sleeves 250,000 to quote RRC. and the vinyls have solid centers. This cover will be hard to beat this is in superbe condition and original!!!!!!!!!!!

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"Strawberry Fields Forever" came about as John was filming 'How I Won The War.' The name derives from a Salvation Army orphanage near his childhood home called Strawberry Field. The architechtural structure of the building made John feel as though he was in his own world and different from his peers (and, therefore, misundersood by the world). The song was recorded during the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Bandsessions and released with "Penny Lane" as a single.

Release date,

February 17, 1967 (UK) ("Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane" single)

The released version of "Strawberry Fields Forever" is a combination of 2 takes; take 7 (the first minute) and take 26 (which was sped up and enriched with orchestral overdubs)

John Lennon (quote)

"Strawberry Fields is a real place. After I stopped living at Penny Lane, I moved in with my auntie who lived in the suburbs in a nice semidetached place with a small garden and doctors and lawyers and that ilk living around - - not the poor slummy kind of image that was projected in all the Beatles stories. In the class system, it was about half a class higher than Paul, George and Ringo, who lived in government-subsidized housing. We owned our house and had a garden. They didn't have anything like that. Near that home was Strawberry Fields, a house near a boys' reformatory where I used to go to garden parties as a kid with my friends Nigel and Pete. We would go there and hang out and sell lemonade bottles for a penny. We always had fun at Strawberry Fields. So that's where I got the name. But I used it as an image. Strawberry Fields forever. [Singing] "(Living is easy) With eyes closed. Misunderstanding all you see." It still goes, doesn't it? Aren't I saying exactly the same thing now? The awareness apparently trying to be expressed is -- let's say in one way I was always hip. I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from the others. I was different all my life. The second verse goes, "No one I think is in my tree." Well, I was too shy and self-doubting. Nobody seems to be as hip as me is what I was saying. Therefore, I must be crazy or a genius -- "I mean it must be high or low," the next line. There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see. I thought I was crazy or an egomaniac for claiming to see things other people didn't see. As a child, I would say, "But this is going on!" and everybody would look at me as if I was crazy. I always was so psychic or intuitive or poetic or whatever you want to call it, that I was always seeing things in a hallucinatory way. It was scary as a child, because there was nobody to relate to. Neither my auntie nor my friends nor anybody could ever see what I did. It was very, very scary and the only contact I had was reading about an Oscar Wilde or a Dylan Thomas or a Vincent van Gogh -- all those books that my auntie had that talked about their suffering because of their visions. Because of what they saw, they were tortured by society for trying to express what they were. I saw loneliness." - John Lennon, Playboy, 1980

The Vinyl

The audio quality is superbe there is however surface marks ONLY SEEN IN STRONG LIGHT these did not effect the audio quality at all that i heard!!!! this plays through without any background noise or distortion no clicks or pops. Even at the start of the very quiet part of ''Strawberry Fields'' extreemely  light crackles were extreemely minimal (very rare! I have heard a few of these pressings and even the new mint pressings arn't as good as this)  I would class myself as highly critical so please look at my completed listings of records that i have sold of this calabre and you will see that i normally get it right!! This is extreemely playable vinyl clear throughout without any interfearance that i heard nor anoying crackles and distortion. Audio graded excellent plus!!!

The matrix

side 1 7XCE 18415-1 side 2. 7XCE 18416 -2

Mother Stampers

side 1. ''2'' ''O'' side 2.''3'' 'GPP''(The K.T. tax code is alsostamped on the run off grooves on both sides)!!! (only early press)

The labels

''Gramophone Co.'' is featured around the label rim (in upper case only early press) (only early press) ''made in great britain'' (only early press)PLEASE NOTE!! !!! (Extreemely rare this is one of the earliest pressings)!!!!!!!With ''sold in the uk........'' (only early press) Visually the labels are superbe with the lightest of marks even the spidering is minimal little if (no) spindle ware Very tight spindle hole (no) ware!!!!!!THIS HAS NOT BEEN OVERPLAYED SEEM HARDLY PLAYED AT ALL!!!!

The Cover

This is the original company picture cover  this is very fragile (no) splits  and shows VERY (VERY)light creasing or ageing with (hardly any) storage ware\scuffing (see photo) but (no) horrible names or writing!!!!(see photo)a really superbe example!!!!! Please note this is the original 1st press sought after cover!!!!!. 

awsome\superbe  for the audio quality!!!! for a 1st uk 1967 pressing by the beatles!!!!!

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