BEATLES - Sgt. Pepper's 1st press MONO + cutouts insert

£ 112

$ 148

£ 112 Sold For

Jun 27, 2010 Sold Date

Jun 20, 2010 Start Date

11 Number Of Bids

Great Britain Country Of Seller

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Description

Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

PMC 7027

KT tax code

Matrices: XEX 637-1 XEX 638-1

Mothers: MML (side 1) MAP (side 2)

MONO

UK 1967 PARLOPHONE

Vinyl: Visually varying from EX to EX+. These first presses are unusually heavy, pure quality vinyl that could take a bump or two. There is a deep glossy lustre both sides. The vinyl sits perfectly flat on the turntable. Only a couple of very wispy hairlines can be detected. These do not affect the replay. And I would grade the overall replay at at least EX+. This just shows the immense quality of these earliest heavy presses with high groove walls. There are NO skips, NO jumps, and ........ NO CRACKLE!!!! Just beautiful smooth audio. There is hardly ever any static crackle, this is mainly confined to the grooves between tracks. This album has a BEAUTIFUL audio quality. The winner will be delighted. The vinyl has a beautiful glossy lustre.

I have played this in FULL twice over> The replay is ASTOUNDING!!! There are not any jumps or skips. There is hardly ever any background noise at all!! I played this on my Technics turntable with a Linn cartridge and through my very revealing B&W three way speakers!!! I particularly liked "A Day In The Life", which is better and has far deeper dynamics than any other version/format I have ever heard!

The gatefold sleeve ("Printed and made in Great Britain by Garrod and Lofthouse International Ltd.") is phenomenal with a beautiful shiny glossy laminate and without any grubby marks like most would have. Would grade EX+ if it were not for a couple of smallish underlaminate creases quite hard to spot in fact. A small crease on the opening near the top. The spine is beautiful and very straight, not worn!!! A small corner "mini bump" to the right bottom front corner. The inside gatefold looks splendid.

This album comes complete with the ORIGINAL cut outs insert which is MINT and has sat inside the sleeve for all of its life.

This an excellent investment opportunity!!!

Labels are EX.

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