The Beatles 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' 1967 UK Stereo first press

	£		44
	$		58

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I have entered a detailed description below but firstly I would like to highlight a few points to any potential buyers.

I am currently thinning out my collection created over many years including LPs, EPs and singles, mostly Beatles and related, many original presses so please feel free to check out my other items listed, I will be listing over 100 items so there should be something there to interest you if Beatles is your thing.

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Where reasonably possible, and when time allows I will test play the record all the way through at high volume on a very high quality system and while it's not practical to play all the records I list all the way through, where time won't allow a full play of the record, I will at least play random tracks and and where I visually detect any deep scratches or marks to see if they affect play, in addition I also always play various places in between tracks which is the best test of any distortion or issues. I will remark in the description if I have played the entire record for soundness or as above sample random tracks

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Ok sorry about that, rant over just wanted to make it clear where I'm coming from, description of the record below.

MATRIX NUMBERS - YEX 637-1/YEX 638-1

STAMPERS - GRT 1GGH 1

SPIZER/DANIELS REF:

COVER - PAR 7027.SC1

LABELS - PAR 7027.SR1A(II)b

COVER - EX Front panel, there are 8 light laminate thumbnail shaped creases toward the opening edge which have not lifted or damaged the laminate, in addition to a few thin spidery handling creases mainly from the spine edge and one or two top and bottom edge, in addition presumably a previous owner has written his name 'Richard walker stereo' in biro, however the ink from this has been cleaned off so only the nib impression remains, only visible at a certain angle. rear panel has a very faint blunt scratch from top to bottom approx two thirds the way along the laminate, it hasn't broken the laminate indeed I nearly missed it as again only visible at a certain angle, again thin spidery handling creases along the spine edge and top and bottom edges, but again these are minor. Bottom edge of gatefold which houses the disc has approx 3 cm of wear to the laminate but not split, remaining top and bottom edges retain there original sharpness and laminate, slight cracking to the surface of the laminate along the spine but still very much intact, very light corner bumpwear specifically to open edge corners. The interior gatefold has as expected due to being protected remained sharp bright and undamaged with a satisfying just bought crackle when opened. All in all though all these issues sound a lot in fact they are all minor apart maybe from the biro mark, and this cover is a strong fine example of a well made product.

INNER SLEEVE/INSERTS - G+ Inner fool sleeve, these are traditionally delicate and any damage tends to be featured on these, this one is no exception though in essence remains reasonably complete and intact, the split in the usual place bottom middle seam of approx 6cm has been repaired with clear tape, and there is a 1cm vertical tear to the right of this, 2 or 3 small tears to the opening edge and moderate handling creases both sides, for all this the colours remain bright and still a reasonable condition given the age, with the flipback still stuck down and intact. EX Inner cut out card sheet, unfortunately would have been an EX+ had it not been for Richard Walkers biro again, his name in biro is also on her, toward the top left handside front side, had it not been for this would have been perfect as usually these cut outs are rarely removed from the sleeve after an initial look. 

LABELS - EX/EX The yellow and black parlophone labels retain their excellent condition a few light spidery spindle trails on each side, the silver song titles and credits are still as sharp as when new, the KT tax code clearly visible to side 1, and thankfully Mr Walker clearly decided not to leave his mark here.  

VINYL VISUAL -  EX-/EX Disc weight -120gm Careful inspection of both sides of the record reveal the usual paper sleeve marks with a deep gloss shine, with a couple of minor small light scratches, main one to end of side one, this however or indeed any of the other scratches affect play. 

VINYL PLAY VG/EX I test played random tracks throughout and in between tracks at high volume on my very unforgiving Bang and Olufsen all tracks I played were crisp and clear, with some background static crackle inbetween tracks you would expect from a record this age, however my experience tells me that one deep clean on the VPI machine will remove the majority of this static, the record played totally flat with no warping.

I would suspect apart from my random test play, this record has received only a few careful plays from new.

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