THE BEATLES Sgt Peppers MONO ONE BOX Final Original Mono INCREDIBLY RARE

	£		75
	$		99

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The Beatles' Sergent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is possibly their most iconic. Musically this is undoubted, with the whole feel of the album being a continual "mood-world" you inhabit for the duration. Even the first few tracks and the penultimate reprise give it a "show" feeling, and as more people were turning to stereo soundsystems, the Beatles and George Martin used all their guile to produce a sound that filled all of that stereo territory like never before. On first release in 1967 many people still bought the MONO copy, though as copies sold, later copies were increasingly Stereo, with only special orders being Mono, the next mono copies omitted "A Day In The Life" on the track listings on the label, by early1969 the copies dropped the "Sold in the UK subject to..." text just below the Parlophone banner, these were almost always Stereo, but some were still pressed in Mono, but by late 1969, the colour banner was dropped by EMI in place of a more standardised "ONE BOX" layout, whereby the company, in this case Parlophone was printed in white text inside a silver Box, then EMI was written in white inside a white box at the bottom of the label. These continued until 1972, when EMI included a further EMI text box at the top of the label aswell, these later labels are known as "TWO BOX" copies. In a period that was very short-lived ,and ostensibly ran for the duration of 1970 and '71, reissues of Beatles LPs were not the norm, (as many shops were still stocked with unsold copies, and there would be many more perfectly great condition second hand copies around) and so copies of Beatles LPs pressed during this time and with this "ONE BOX" label variation are quite rare and sought after. But what is almost unbelievable is that for a few special orders, they produced 3 of the Beatles titles in Mono with these labels (Please Please Me, Help! and Sergent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)!!! Who would have been specially going out of their way to order a new mono copy in 1970?! Even a mono player, by then it was well known, with a modern stylus, could play a stereo copy as mono perfectly well!
That then, is why these copies are so very rare, and incredibly sought after, being as they were bthe very final Mono pressings of Beatles records in the UK, until the much more recent re-issues in the last few years.


RECORD CONDITION: G+/VG-, This record has a general covering of surface marks that dullens the sheen, it has some slightly more signifficant marks, though thankfully nothing to cause any jumping, just some pops and static, mainly in the quieter passages and silences between tracks. This then, has clearly been enjoyed is still playable. And this is so incredibly rare in any condition!
RECORD LABELS: VG/VG+ Nice decent labels, a few light spindle marks around the central spindle holes on either side, a feint white broken line around the 3 o'clock to 6 o'clock on the Side 1 label (please see photos), and a very feint indent of a name having been written above the parlophone box on both sides (barely visible, but I have done my best to highlight this in photo 7 by catching it in the light)
SLEEVE: VG+, of the few copies of this that have surfaced, some have come housed in special so called "cross-over" or "hybrid" sleeves, and some have been housed in standard mono sleeves, this is one of the latter, though a decent copy of one. Perfectly servicable! Free from graffiti/wear-throughs/rips/stains etc. etc. etc.
DEADWAX INFO:
Side 1:
2               M
                 P                  G
XEX 637 - 1

Side 2:
1               M 9               O                  L
XEX 638 - 1
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