RAINBOW The BEATLES SGT PEPPER + INSERT Psych Lennon

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CLEAN RAINBOW *Vinyl* PRESSING with insert

            THE BEATLES   

    SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND      

             ...USA - Rainbow Capitol - SMAS 2653

Clean first pressing RAINBOW RECORDS vinyl issue in thick gatefold cover...

includes the Pepperland inset 'cut outs' and the very rare psychedelic inner sleeve... 

"Pepper was probably the one Beatle album I can say was my idea," McCartney says. "It was my idea to say to the guys, 'Hey, how about disguising ourselves and getting an alter ego, because we're the Beatles '. McCartney added: "I just listened to it and said to myself, 'God, I really love this album.' Still, today, it just sounds so fresh. It sounds full of ideas. These guys knew what they were doing. They're good. And they're inventive. I haven't heard anything for years that's as inventive. I don't really expect to."

After the Beatles stopped touring in 1966, they had time to explore in greater depth the possibilities of the recording studio with producer George Martin. The magnitude of the Beatles phenomenon was starting to encroach on the band - and their experience with psychedelic drugs made that phenomenon seem increasingly surreal. Apart from some relatively modest touches - the colorful uniforms, the opening theme song, the reprise near the end and Ringo's entertaining turn as "the one and only Billy Shears" in "With a Little Help from My Friends" - the alter egos make no discernible appearances on the album. But one look at the cover of "Sgt. Pepper" - festooned with the band's wildly eclectic gallery of heroes and with the wax figures of the youthful Fab Four standing next to their far more hirsute and serious-looking real-life counterparts - eloquently tells how greatly removed the group had grown from what they were. Under the guise of alter egos the Beatles had finally allowed their real selves to emerge.

Interestingly, however, the Beatles had freed themselves not merely to chronicle such weighty subjects as the joys of mind-expanding drugs, in "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," the paradoxical wisdom of Eastern religious philosophy, in "Within You Without You," or the sterile absurdity of mainstream values in the astonishing "Day in the Life." On the contrary, Sgt. Pepper is filled with sly inside jokes, broad music-hall humor and completely gratuitous novelties. It is not only the Beatles' most artistically ambitious album but their funniest.

Take, for example, the dog whistle - which humans can't hear - buried on the album's second side. And the famous "Inner Groove" - the snippet of pointless conversation that sticks in the album's run-out groove and that was not included in the original American version of "Sgt. Pepper" - has an equally zany genesis. Around the time of "Sgt. Pepper's" release, McCartney explains, "a lot of record players didn't have auto-change. You would play an album and it would go, 'Tick, tick, tick,' in the run-out groove - it would just stay there endlessly. We were whacked out so much of the time in the Sixties - just quite harmlessly, as we thought, it was quite innocent - but you would be at friends' houses, twelve at night, and nobody would be going to get up to change that record player. So we'd be getting into the little 'tick, tick, tick,': 'It's quite good, you know? There's a rhythm there.' These are minor points, perhaps, in the context of the enormous achievement of "Sgt. Pepper". But such fun-loving experimentalism - born of the optimistic determination to blow away anything that "stops my mind from wandering where it will go" - is "Sgt. Pepper's" best legacy for our time.

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (2:02)

   Recorded: February 1, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubbing February 2, March 3, and March 6, 1967
   John Lennon - lead guitar, background vocal
   Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar
   George Harrison - lead guitar, background vocal
   Ringo Starr - drums
   George Martin - organ
   Session musicians - four horns
2. With a Little Help From My Friends (2:44) Recorded: March 29, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added March 30, 1967
   John Lennon - background vocal
   Paul McCartney - bass guitar, piano, background vocal
   George Harrison - tambourine
   Ringo Starr - lead vocal, drums
3. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (3:29) Recorded: March 1, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added March 2, 1967
   John Lennon - lead vocal, lead guitar
   Paul McCartney - bass guitar, Hammond organ, harmony vocal
   George Harrison - sitar, harmony vocal
   Ringo Starr - drums
4. Getting Better (2:48) Recorded: March 9, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubbing March 10, March 21 and March 23, 1967
   John Lennon - lead guitar, background vocal
   Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar, background vocal
   George Harrison - lead guitar, tamboura, background vocal
   Ringo Starr - drums, bongos
   George Martin - piano strings
5. Fixing a Hole (2:36) Recorded: February 9, 1967 at Regent Sound Studio, London, England with overdubbing February 21, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England
   John Lennon - maracas, background vocal
   Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar, lead guitar, harpsichord
   George Harrison - lead guitar, double-tracked lead guitar solo, background vocal
   Ringo Starr - drums
6. She's Leaving Home (3:35) Recorded: March 17, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with vocals overdubbed March 20, 1967
   John Lennon - lead vocal, background vocal
   Paul McCartney - lead vocal, background vocal
   Session musicians - strings, harp
7. Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite! (2:37) Recorded: February 17, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubbing February 20, March 28-29 and March 31, 1967
   John Lennon - lead vocal, Hammond organ (main melody)
   Paul McCartney - bass guitar, lead guitar
   George Harrison - harmonica
   Ringo Starr - drums, harmonica
   George Martin - Wurlitzer organ (countermelody), piano
   Mal Evans - harmonica
   Neil Aspinall - harmonica
8. Within You Without You (5:06) Recorded: March 15, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubbing March 22, 1967 and April 3, 1967
   George Harrison - lead vocal, tamboura
   Neil Aspinall - tamboura
   Indian session musicians - dilruba, tamboura, tabla, swordmandel
   Session musicians - eight violins, three cellos
9. When I'm Sixty-Four (2:37) Recorded: December 6, 1966 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added December 8 and December 20-21, 1966
   John Lennon - lead guitar, background vocal
   Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar, piano, background vocal
   George Harrison - background vocal
   Ringo Starr - drums
   Session musicians - bass clarinet, two clarinets
10. Lovely Rita (2:42) Recorded: February 23, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added February 24, March 7 and March 21, 1967
    John Lennon - acoustic guitar, comb and paper, background vocal
    Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar, piano, comb and paper, background vocal
    George Harrison - acoustic guitar, comb and paper, background vocal
    Ringo Starr - drums
    George Martin - honky-tonk piano
11. Good Morning, Good Morning (2:42) Recorded: February 8, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England with overdubs added February 16, March 13 and March 28-29, 1967
    John Lennon - lead vocal, background vocal
    Paul McCartney - bass guitar, lead guitar and solo, background vocal
    George Harrison - lead guitar
    Ringo Starr - drums
    Sounds Incorporated - three saxophones, two trombones, French horn
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (1:19) Recorded: April 1, 1967 at Abbey Road, London, England
    John Lennon - lead vocal, lead guitar, maracas
    Paul McCartney - lead vocal, bass guitar
    George Harrison - lead vocal, lead guitar
    Ringo Starr - drums
13. A Day in the Life (5:33) Recorded: January 19, 1967 (basic track) and February 10, 1967 (orchestral track) at Abbey Road, London, England with the final-chord ending overdubbed February 22, 1967
    John Lennon - lead vocal (first, second and last verses), acoustic guitar, lead guitar
    Paul McCartney - lead vocal (middle section), piano, conducts the forty-one-piece orchestra
    Ringo Starr - drums
    Lennon, McCartney, Starr, Mal Evans - three pianos (final chord)
    George Martin - harmonium
    Mal Evans - alarm clock
    Session musicians - forty-one-piece orchestra

CONDITION: The thick gatefold cover is pretty crisp "VG++" ~ displays really well

The vinyl is all clean and shiny VG++ a couple/few sup[erficial scuff lines is all all.

The 'cut outs' insert is displasyable but has a little fraying at one end, but altogether acceptable

the psychedelic inner sleeve is nice, clean, stiff...

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record

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Please SEE PHOTO NUMBER TWO FOR CORRECT PHOTO...

THIS IS THEE ORIGINAL 1967 RAINBOW CAPITOL FIRST PRESSING