The Beatles "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" Mono 1st Press PMC 7027 1/1
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The Beatles ? "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" Parlophone ?PMC 7027 UK 1st press.
Mono Vinyl, LP, released in 1967.
The vinyl has lots of scuffs and scrapes which produce crackles between tracks and in quieter passages. I have played the album and it does play all the way through without any hop, stick or jump. The gate-fold sleeve is in good condition - no writing. The spine however, is very worn and is no longer legible. The vinyl is housed in the original "psychedelic" inner sleeve, which is in good condition, apart from a slight tear along the bottom seam. There is NO cut-out insert. Matrix / Runout Side 1: XEX 637-1 Matrix / Runout Side 2: XEX 638-1
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" is the Beatles' eighth studio album. Released on 26 May 1967 in the United Kingdom and 2 June 1967 in the United States, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, spending 27 weeks at the top of the UK albums chart and 15 weeks at number one in the US. On release, the album was lauded by the vast majority of critics for its innovations in music production, songwriting and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and legitimate art, and for providing a musical representation of its generation and the contemporary counterculture. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour.
"Sgt. Pepper" is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the use of extended form in popular music while continuing the artistic maturation seen on the Beatles' preceding releases. It has been described as one of the first art rock LPs, aiding the development of progressive rock, and credited with marking the beginning of the Album Era. An important work of British psychedelia, the album incorporates a range of stylistic influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, and Western and Indian classical music. In 2003, the Library of Congress placed "Sgt. Pepper" in the National Recording Registry, honouring the work as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". That same year, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number one in its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". As of 2011, it had sold more than 32 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums in history. Professor Kevin J. Dettmar, writing in the Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, described it as "the most important and influential rock and roll album ever recorded".
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