BEATLES - Sgt Pepper's ‘Fourth Proof’ Mono LP 1st press
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BEATLES UK - Sgt Pepper's ‘Fourth Proof’ Mono LP.
PMC 7027 – original black and yellow Parlophone labels.
A UK pressing in original condition featuring:
This unique version of this album was effectively a pre production sleeve, the first three ‘Proof’ sleeves never saw the light of day, this ‘Fourth Proof’ sleeve was passed around at EMI for final agreement. Never meant to be released, but a number of these sleeves did find their way into the public market. As these were ‘Proof’ sleeve copies they should have NEVER have left the printers.
There are a number of unique differences from the final production sleeve:
1. printed ‘Fourth Proof’, ‘AR’ and ‘D 13217’ text printed on the top right flipback on the inner gatefold of the sleeve. There is a story about this, the old style of ‘visual’ flipbacks were on the way out and the sleeve for the latest Beatles LP, Sgt Pepper was to feature the new ‘hidden inner’ flipback design, (but this never happened) therefore it was thought that the above text would NOT be seen. Apparently the ‘AR’ stands for the designers initials and the ‘D 13217’ is the internal catalogue number for the printers of the sleeve, ‘Garrod and Lofthouse’.
2. The rear of the sleeve features the text ‘Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd Patents Pending’, it is only a very small number of very early Pepper Mono sleeves that have this additional text, ‘Patents Pending’. The sleeve normally just states ‘Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd’ (G&L). By the time of the official launch of Sgt Pepper in June 1967, G&L had got their ‘Patents’ confirmed and this text ‘Patents Pending’ was removed from the rear of the sleeve.
3. Georges jacket is Pink instead of Red, as on the standard sleeves,
4. Johns jacket is Yellow instead of Green, as on the standard sleeves.
CONDITION:
THE MAIN SLEEVE: is in very good++ condition, the sleeve is fully laminated. The spine is in near very good condition, it is strong, solid and complete. There is some ‘scuffing’ to the centre of the spine so not all of the text is clear to read. When the gatefold sleeve is opened the original exposed top two flipbacks can be seen. There are NO stains, splits, tears, stickers or sticker residue.
THE CARD INSERT: is in good condition.
THE VINYL: side one is in very good condition, side two is in very good+ condition, it is made from the period ‘thick’, heavy vinyl.
The matrix are: XEX 637 - 1 and XEX 638 - 1,
THE AUDIO: is near very good, it plays with some crackle and some light ‘ticks’ here and there. The record lays flat on the turntable.
THE LABELS: side one is in excellent+ condition, side two is in very good++ condition.
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