NOT ONLY A SUPERB SLEEVE AND VINYLED COPY OF THE  UK EARLIEST MONO WITH RARE WIDESPINE SLEEVE BUT FULLY COMPLETE WITH FOOL INNER AND INSERT ..

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST WIDESPINE SLEEVES I HAVE HAD AND A SUPER PLAYING COPY TOO, A TRUELY SUPERIOR COPY ....L@@K

THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT SLEEVED VARIAINTS OF SGT PEPPER AND ALTHOUGH THE CRONOLOGY IS NOT TOTALLY CERTAIN, THE AMOUNT OF LOW MOTHER/STAMPER COPIES OFTEN FOUND IN WIDESPINE SLEEVES ( ESPECIALLY STEREO'S ) TENDS TO SUBSTANTIATE THE BELIEF THAT THESE WIDESPINE SLEEVES ARE INDEED THE EARLIEST MADE. 

INDEED AT THE PRE-RELEASE LAUNCH PARTY ( WHICH i THINK WAS HELD AT BRIAN EPSTEIN'S LONDON HOME ) IN SOME PICTURESTHE BEATLES CAN BE SEEN CLEARLY HOLDING A WIDESPINE SGT PEPPER VARIANT:-

HOWEVER IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT STORAGE ISSUES LED TO A RAPID RE-DESIGN OF THE SLEEVES TO REDUCE THE WIDTH OF THE SPINE AND IT IS PROBABLY HERE WERE THE SO-CALLED " FOURTH PROOF " THIN SPINE SLEEVES APPEAR WHICH WERE ACTUALLY PROBABLY PROOFS FOR NEW STANDARD THINNER SPINE SLEEVES. AS SUCH THE FOURTH PROOFS ARE PROBABLY NOT THE EARLIEST SLEEVE VARIANTS AS OFTEN CLAIMED, THESE WIDESPINES ARE.

EVEN THOUGH STEREO YELLOW/BLACK PEPPERS ARE ACTUALLY PROBABLY RARER THAN THE MONOS, BECAUSE THE BEATLES WERE INVOLVED DIRECTLY IN THE MONO MIX AND BECAUSE IT IS QUITE DIFFERENT TO THE STEREO MIX WHICH IS THE MIX MOST OF US ARE MOST FAMILAIR WITH, MONO COPIES ARE MORE SOUGHT AFTER.

                                               GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS !!

For Auction here is the UK LP ''  SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND " 

ARTIST:  THE BEATLES

MONO/STEREO: MONO

Cat. No : PMC 7027

LABEL: PARLOPHONE  

COUNTRY: UK

DATE: 1967

MATRICIES:  -1 -1

MOTHERS STAMPERS:    NOTHING UNUSUAL

TAX: KT

VINYL WEIGHT: 145g

THE CONDITION

SLEEVE: SUPERB COPY, ONE OF THE BEST WIDESPINES I HAVE HAD. THIS WOULD GRADE EX PLUS SAVE FOR SOME CREASING AND LAMINATE LIFT ON THE REAR AND A SMALL BUMP ON THE FRONT. THE LAMINATE SHEEN IS STUNNING AND THE EDGES ARE RAZOR SHARP AND WIDESPINE NOT FAR OFF PERFECT. SUPERIOR EXAMPLE

VINYL VISUAL : AMAZINGLY RETAINS  IT'S FIRST PRESSED SHINE WHICH IS SO RARE WITH PEPPERS DUE PROBABLY TO THE INNOVATIVE LACK OF TRACK BANDING WHICH SEEMS TO DULL THE VINYL, THIS ONE IS NOT AND DISPLAYS ONLY LIGHT HAIRLINES MOSTLY ONLY UNDER A BRIGHT HALOGEN LAMP, GRADES VG+ TO EX-, IF IT HAD TRACK BANDING IT WOULD PROBABLY LOOK EXCELLENT

VINYL PLAY : THIS COPY INCREDIBLY PLAYS WITHOUT ANY BACKGROUND AT ALL IN MOST PLACES. THERE ARE A COUPLE OF TICKS HERE AND THERE, MOST OBVIOUSLY ON SHE'S LEAVING HOME. YET THIS TRACK IS THE BENCHMARK ON THESE MONO COPIES. PROBABLY BECAUSE IT WAS SPEEDED UP ( ALEGEDLLY BECAUSE MCCARTNEY WAS UNHAPPY WITH THE VOCAL ). AS A RESULT MOST MONO COPIES SUFFER FROM TERRIBLE DISTORTION ON THE LOUDER PARTS OF THIS TRACK. AMAZING THIS ONE IS ONE OF THE FEW I HAVE HAD THAT DOES NOT DISTORT AND THAT IS SO RARE, JUST THOSE FEW TICKS    

LABELS: NO SERIOUS FLAWS - SUPERB CONDITION GRADE EXCELLENT  

INSERT: NO FLAWS, EXCELLENT EASY

FOOL INNER: ONE OF THE BEST FOOL INNERS YOU WILL SEE, UNSPLIT AND EXCELLENT 

GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS!

DOMESTIC DISPATCH WILL BE BY SIGNED FOR DELIVERY, THIS IS TO PREVENT FRAUDULANT CLAIMS OF NON RECEIPT INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE SEE MY NOTES BELOW

GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS!

DOMESTIC DISPATCH WILL BE BY SIGNED FOR DELIVERY, THIS IS TO PREVENT FRAUDULANT CLAIMS OF NON RECEIPT ! INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE SEE MY NOTES BELOW

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