(THE BEATLES-1967-1970)-PARLOPHONEPCSO-7181/2 -#1 on the U.S. Billboard-H0-2xLP

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ITEM: VINYL 2x12” LP 33 1/3rpm
ARTIST: THE BEATLES
TITLE: 1967-1970
COUNTRY: OZ
CAT No: PARLOPHONE, PCSO-7181/2, STEREO
COVER: Gatefold (Grade at VG+) small tears/laminate lifts
LABELS: (Grade at MINT-)
VINYL #1: (Grade at strong EXCELLENT+ to NEAR MINT-)
VINYL #2: (Grade at NEAR MINT+)
TRACKS:
Side one
"Strawberry Fields Forever"
"Penny Lane"
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
"With a Little Help from My Friends"
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
"A Day in the Life"
"All You Need Is Love"

Side two
"I Am the Walrus"
"Hello, Goodbye"
"The Fool on the Hill"
"Magical Mystery Tour"
"Lady Madonna"
"Hey Jude"
"Revolution"

Side three
"Back in the U.S.S.R."
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Harrison)
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
"Get Back"
"Don't Let Me Down"
"The Ballad of John and Yoko"
"Old Brown Shoe" (Harrison)

Side four
"Here Comes the Sun" (Harrison)
"Come Together"
"Something" (Harrison)
"Octopus's Garden" (Starkey)
"Let It Be"
"Across the Universe"
"The Long and Winding Road"
TRACK NOTES:
?  The CD version was released on two discs.

?  The first side comprises popular selections from the Sgt. Pepper recording sessions along with "All You Need Is Love" which was released within the same summer as Sgt. Pepper. While the first 3 tracks of Sgt. Pepper are in order, for CD release a unique 'clean' edition of "A Day in the Life" is included, without the cross-fade from "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)". On vinyl editions the track starts with a fade-in before the cross-fade. The 1966 stereo version of "Strawberry Fields Forever" is used on the first side of this vinyl. On CD, it was replaced by a different stereo version made in 1971.

?  The single versions of "Get Back" and "Let It Be" make their album debut with this compilation (The latter erroneously shows the LP running time of 4:01)

?  The US version has "Hello Goodbye" in mono and "I Am The Walrus" with the four-beat intro. This was changed for the CD release.

?  All tracks written by Lennon-McCartney, except where noted.

  COMMENT:
Wikipedia
1967–1970 (widely known as The Blue Album) is a compilation of many of The Beatles' most popular tracks from 1967 to 1970. It was released with 1962–1966 (The Red Album), which covered their earlier period. 1967–1970 made #1 on the U.S. Billboard chart and #2 on the U.K. Album Chart.

The cover art shows the band once again looking down the stairwell of EMI's Manchester Square headquarters in London; the same pose, camera angle, setting and photographer (Angus McBean) as used for the cover on the Please Please Me and 1962–1966 albums, which used different photos from the same photo session. The image was originally shot for the Get Back album, which later became Let It Be, but in the end the photograph was not used for that project.

The Beatles themselves participated in selecting the songs for inclusion, as well as the colours and pictures. Songs performed by the Beatles as solo artists were also considered for inclusion, but like the cover songs on 1962–1966, limited space resulted in this idea having to be abandoned.

As with 1962-1966, this compilation was produced by Apple/EMI at least partially in response to a bootleg collection titled Alpha Omega, which had been sold on television the previous year.

Biography by Richie Unterberger
So much has been said and written about the Beatles — and their story is so mythic in its sweep — that it's difficult to summarize their career without restating clichés that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans. To start with the obvious, they were the greatest and most influential act of the rock era, and introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century. Moreover, they were among the few artists of any discipline that were simultaneously the best at what they did and the most popular at what they did. Relentlessly imaginative and experimental, the Beatles grabbed a hold of the international mass consciousness in 1964 and never let go for the next six years, always staying ahead of the pack in terms of creativity but never losing their ability to communicate their increasingly sophisticated ideas to a mass audience. Their supremacy as rock icons remains unchallenged to this day, decades after their breakup in 1970.

  VINYL GRADING SYSTEM

MINT:
RECORD: New condition with no surface marks or loss of sound quality.
COVER: New condition with no surface marks, creases or wear.
NEAR MINT:
RECORD: Barely noticeable surface mark with no loss of sound quality.
COVER: Barely noticeable surface mark/ wear.
EXCELLENT:
RECORD: Some signs of being played with extremely little if no loss of sound quality.
COVER: Slight wear or creasing.
VERY GOOD:
RECORD: Obviously been played with noticeable surface marks & the occasional light scratches but exhibits no major loss of sound quality.
COVER: Noticeable wear on cover, seam or spine.
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