BEATLES Sgt Pepper LP 1967 1st Press WIDE SPINE MINT

	£		385
	$		510

On offer here is a VERY rare LP (especially in this condition!!!!) by The Beatles called 'Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band' and is an ORIGINAL 1967 UK 1st Pressing on the 1st Press Yellow & Black Parlophone label!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!!!!  IT IS ONE OF THE BEATLES RAREST LPs EVER - AND VIRTUALLY NEVER TURNS UP FOR SALE!!!!  JUST TRY AND FIND ANOTHER ONE!!!!  THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER LPs EVER MADE - AND IS INCREDIBLY HARD TO LOCATE TODAY!!!!  BUT WHAT MAKES THIS LP REALLY SPECIAL - IS THAT IT IS QUITE SIMPLY THE RAREST & 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING OF THIS INCREDIBLE LP EVER MADE!!!!  AND THIS IS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ON THIS LP!!!!  I WILL NOW EXPLAIN WHAT MAKES THIS LP SO AMAZINGLY RARE!!!!  FIRSTLY THIS LP HAS AN ULTRA RARE 'WIDE SPINE' COVER (SEE PICTURES!)!!!!  ONLY THE VERY 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSINGS EVER MADE, EVER HAD ULTRA RARE 'WIDE SPINE' COVERS, AND THEY ARE INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TO FIND - AS THEY WERE ALMOST IMMEDIATELY CHANGED TO THE COMMON 'STANDARD' THINNER SPINE COVERS THAT ALL LATER PRESSINGS HAD!!!!  DUE TO PRODUCTION & STACKING PROBLEMS AT THE FACTORY - THE 'WIDE SPINE' COVERS SIMPLY WOULDNT LIE 'STRAIGHT' IN PILES, AND SO ALMOST IMMEDIATELY THE 'WIDE SPINES' WERE DROPPED AND REPLACED WITH THE VERY COMMON 'THIN SPINES' WHICH ALL LATER PRESSINGS HAD - WHICH ENABLED THE PACKING OF COVERS IN MORE STABLE STACKS READY FOR DESPATCH!!!!  SECONDLY THIS LP IS MADE FAR FAR RARER STILL - AS IT IS 1ST PRESSED IN MEGA RARE STEREO (MOST WERE MONO!)!!!!  WHEN THIS LP WAS FIRST RELEASED BACK IN 1967, NEARLY EVERY 1ST PRESSING WAS MADE IN COMMON MONO - WITH VIRTUALLY NONE IN MEGA RARE STEREO AT ALL!!!!   AND DEMAND FOR STEREOs WAS SO ABSOLUTELY TINY, THAT MOST SHOPS DIDNT EVEN STOCK STEREOs AS STANDARD IN 1967 - AND STEREO 1ST PRESSINGS WERE ONLY AVAILABLE BY 'SPECIAL ORDER' ONLY!!!!  AS A RESULT, FINDING A 1ST PRESSING OF THIS LP IN MEGA RARE STEREO IS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE!!!!  BUT WHAT MAKES THIS LP THE RAREST & 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING OF THIS LP EVER MADE - IS THAT IT HAS ULTRA RARE 'PATENTS PENDING' TEXT ON THE REVERSE OF THE COVER (SEE PICTURES)!!!!  AND THIS IS TRULY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ON A 'WIDE SPINE' COVER!!!!   NOW WHILST I HAVE SEEN 'PATENTS PENDING' TEXT A FEW TIMES ON THE LATER 'THINNER' SPINE COVERS - I HAVE NEVER EVER SEEN A 'WIDE SPINE' COVER WITH THIS TEXT - EVER!!!!  I MUST HAVE SEEN OVER 2000+ SGT PEPPER 1ST PRESSINGS OVER THE YEARS (IF NOT MORE!) - BUT THIS IS THE ONLY 'WIDE SPINE' COVER I HAVE EVER COME ACROSS WITH THIS ULTRA RARE 'PATENTS PENDING' TEXT!!!!  SO THIS CLEARLY SHOWS THAT THIS IS QUITE LITERALLY THE 'EARLIEST' & RAREST 1ST PRESSING OF THIS LP EVER MADE - AND IS WITHOUT ANY DOUBT THE RAREST 1ST PRESSING OF THIS LP EVER MADE!!!!  JUST HOW MANY MUST HAVE BEEN MADE LIKE THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW FOR CERTAIN (THOUGH IT CANNOT HAVE BEEN MORE THAN A FEW HUNDRED!) - BUT THE FACT IS THAT I HAVE NEVER EVER SEEN ANOTHER ONE - AND I HAVE HANDLED 1000s OF SGT PEPPER 1ST PRESSINGS OVER THE YEARS!!!!  SO THINK VERY VERY CAREFULLY BEFORE PASSING ON THIS AMAZING ITEM - FOR IT WILL SURELY BE A VERY VERY LONG TIME BEFORE YOU EVER GET THE CHANCE TO OWN WHAT MUST BE CONSIDERED AS THE RAREST & 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING OF THIS INCREDIBLE LP EVER MADE!!!!  NOT ONLY THAT, BUT THIS LP IS ALSO 100% COMPLETE - WITH ITS ORIGINAL 1ST PRESS RED/WHITE INNER SLEEVE, 1ST PRESS 'DARKER GREEN' INSERT, 1ST PRESS 'WIDE SPINE' COVER, & 1ST PRESS THICK QUALITY RECORD!!!!  AND WHAT MAKES THIS LP EVEN RARER STILL - IS THAT IT IS IN ABSOLUTELY SUPERB CONDITION!!!!  AND THIS IS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ON THIS LP!!!!  THE RECORD HAS BARELY BEEN PLAYED AT ALL AND IS IN AMAZING CONDITION, THE RED/WHITE INNER SLEEVE IS SIMPLY SUPERB, THE 'DARKER GREEN' INSERT IS SIMPLY AWESOME, AND THE ULTRA RARE 'WIDE SPINE' COVER IS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!!  JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES!!!!  THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1967 UK STEREO 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING ON THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS YELLOW & BLACK PARLOPHONE LABEL, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 1/1 STEREO MATRIX ENDINGS, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'SOLD IN THE UK' LABEL TEXT, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'GRAMOPHONE COMPANY' LABEL EDGE TEXT, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'RED/WHITE' INNER SLEEVE, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'KT' LABEL TAX CODING, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'DARKER GREEN' INSERT, AND ULTRA RARE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'GARROD & LOFTHOUSE' FULLY LAMINATED FLIPBACK 'WIDE SPINE' GATEFOLD 'PATENTS PENDING' STEREO COVER!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!  This is the ORIGINAL UK 1st Pressing from 1967 and is in SUPERB condition!!!!  The record is pressed on THICK quality vinyl. The matrix numbers are YEX 637-1 & YEX 638-1.  The Cat. No is PCS 7027 on the ORIGINAL 1st Press Yellow & Black Parlophone label (see picture) and is a much MUCH rarer UK STEREO 1st Pressing!!!!

The record labels are in AWESOME condition (see pictures) with NO wear, NO writing, and barely ANY spindle marks AT ALL!!!!  IT IS VERY CLEAR THAT THIS RECORD HAS BARELY BEEN PLAYED AT ALL!!!!  The vinyl is in AWESOME condition!!!! Most of these 60s LPs had been to a lot of wild parties and are usually found totally worn out, and almost unplayable. This one is NOT and has NO scratches, NO hairlines, NO scufflines, and only a VERY few of the VERY lightest paper scuffs only visible under EXTREME light!!!!  ITS AS SIMPLE AS THAT!!!!  THE RECORD STILL RETAINS ITS ORIGINAL 'JUST PRESSED' LOOK AND LOOKS AMAZING!!!!  It is also great to find that the playing of the record is as STUNNING as the visual!!!!  It plays with NO pops, NO sticking, NO jumps, barely ANY crackle AT ALL, and only some absolutely ULTRA faint touches of MEGA low level background sound in places (clearly from the ORIGINAL pressing, always AMAZINGLY low level and mostly NONE!)!!!!  The sound quality is simply SUPERB with NO distortion and NO groovewear either!!!!  The record must grade Excellent++++ if not MINT(Minus)!!!!  AWESOME RECORD!!!!  Believe me this record is NOT overgraded in ANY way!!!! I use STRICT RC grading standards - it is not in my interest not to!!!! Brillant!!!!  The record also comes in its ORIGINAL 1st Press Red/White 'Patents Applied For' inner sleeve which is in absolutely SUPERB condition and most importantly is UNSPLIT!!!!  The ORIGINAL 1st press 'Darker Green' Insert is in absolutely AMAZING condition and has clearly NEVER left the cover!!!! The ULTRA RARE 'Earliest' 1st Press 'Garrod & Lofthouse' WIDE SPINE Gatefold Flipback FULLY Laminated 'Patents Pending' STEREO Cover is in BRILLIANT condition!!!! It has NO edge wear, NO spinal wear, only slight corner wear (NOT through the colour!), only a few VERY light creases (cover is VERY flat looking!), only 2 or 3 TINY indentations, VERY shiny laminate, only 1 TINY area of laminate lifting (completely iNVISIBLE!), NO splits, and NO writing!!!!  The opening edges are beautifully straight with NO feathering!!!!  Even the laminated inside of the cover is in SUPERB condition with NO grubbyness, NO yellowing, STUNNING flipbacks, and NO writing!!!!  The cover must grade Very Good++ if not better!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY!!!!

HAVE A LOOK AT MY PICTURES - I DO MY BEST TO SHOW THE RECORD FROM ALL ANGLES AND MAKE THE PICTURES AS CLEAR AS POSSIBLE - THERE IS NOTHING TO HIDE!!!! It really is a GREAT looking LP and it is truly rare to find any copies of this MEGA RARE Beatles LP!!!! THIS WILL BE YOUR ONLY CHANCE TO BUY AN ORIGINAL 1967 'WIDE SPINE' STEREO 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING OF "SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND" BY THE BEATLES, IN SUPERB CONDITION!!!!  Dont forget to take a look at all my other items including many other TOP LPs and contact me with any queries you may have. P&P £3 in the UK, £4 Europe, £6 Rest Of The World (Postal discounts are available - see below for details).  Paypal, Bank Transfers, Cheques, International Money Orders, and Postal Orders accepted. Thanks for looking! Cheers!!!!!

On 24-Nov-02 at 12:19:15 GMT, seller added the following information: