THE BEATLES WHITE ALBUM MONO TOP OPENING AMAZING

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    THE BEATLES *WHITE ALBUM* MONO TOP OPENING STUNNER              

WELCOME TO ALLADINS CABIN!!

THE BEATLES

THE WHITE ALBUM

MONO

NO. 372824

TOP OPENING

"AN EMI RECORDING"

"SOLD IN THE UK" LABEL TEXT

APPLE LABEL

PMC 7067 - 7068

HI THERE AND WELCOME TO OUR SPECIAL AUCTION HERE AT ALLADINS CABIN. THIS TRUELY IS A WONDERFUL OCCASION, ON THE DAY OF THIS AUCTION ENDING, IT WILL BE FOURTY YEARS TO THE DAY THAT "THE BEATLES" "WHITE ALBUM" IN MONO FORMAT WAS RELEASED. WE SIMPLY COULDN'T LET THIS MOMENTOUS DAY END WITHOUT AN OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE AN ORIGINAL MONO VERSION WHICH IS FULLY COMPLETE. THE 22nd NOVEMBER 1968 WAS (UNKNOWN AT THAT TIME) TO BE THE DAY IN WHICH THE WORLD WOULD YET AGAIN BE AMAZED BY THE BEATLES DIVERSITY AND ATTACHMENT TO MUSIC, IN PRODUCING YET ANOTHER GLOBAL TOP TEN ALBUM THAT WOULD BE RATED IN HISTORY AS BEING IN THE TOP ONE HUNDRED ALBUMS OF ALL TIME.

THIS PACKAGE IS INCREDIBLE. 

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1968 UK MONO 1ST PRESSING, NUMBERED 372824 AND IS TOP OPENING. ALL LABELS STATE "SOLD IN THE U.K." TEXT. THE PACKAGE COMES COMPLETE WITH LYRIC POSTER, FOUR COLOUR PORTRAITS OF EACH BEATLE AND TWO BLACK INNERS.

CATALOGUE NUMBERS

APPLE PMC 7067

APPLE PMC 7068

                                   STAMPERS

XEX 709 - 1                     6 AM

XEX 710 - 1                     4 AA

XEX 711 - 1                     2 GG

XEX 712 - 2                     3 GMG

NO TAX CODE ON ANY OF THE LABELS

AN "EMI RECORDING" TEXT ON EACH LABEL

THE DARK GREEN APPLE LABLES ON ALL SIDES ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH NO UNWANTED MARKS OR WRITING. FOLLOWING INSPECTION UNDER NATURAL DAYLIGHT CONDTIONS, THE LABELS SHOW ONLY VERY FEW MINOR SPINDLE MARKS PRESENT TO ALL SIDES. AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHS THEY ARE UNSPOILT, ONLY IN A MINOR WAY BY SPIDER TRAILS. EACH LABEL IS SPOTLESSY CLEAN AND THE TEXT REMAINS PERFECTLY LEGIBLE. ALL SIDES ARE EXTREMLEY BRIGHT WITH NO FLAWS WHATSOEVER!.

THE APPLE LABELS INDICATE "AN EMI RECORDING" AND "SOLD IN THE U.K." TEXT AND DISPLAY A CLEAR AND CLEAN APPEARENCE.  THESE ARE WONDERFUL EXAMPLES OF THE FIRST PRESS MONO APPLE LABELS.

THE GLOSSY VINYL IS EXCELLENT, IN NORMAL DAYLIGHT CONDITIONS THE GREAT LOOKING MONO VINYL, DISPLAY A NICE SHINY APPEARENCE AND FOLLOWING INSPECTION THE SHOW ONLY LIGHT SURFACE MARKS BUT NO MODERATE NEEDLE MARKS. THE BRIGHT SHINY VINYL LIES PERFECTLY FLAT WITH NO WARPING.

TO CLARIFY, THE CONDITION OF EACH SIDE IS:

SIDE 1 - EXCELLENT

SIDE 2 - EXCELLENT

SIDE 3 - VERY GOOD PLUS

SIDE 4 - VERY GOOD PLUS

Most of the songs that would end up on The Beatles had been conceived during the group's visit to Rishikesh, India in the spring of 1968. There, they had undertaken a transcendental meditation course with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Although the retreat, which had required long periods of meditation, was initially conceived by the band as a spiritual respite from all worldly endeavours – a chance, in Lennon's words, to "get away from everything" both Lennon and McCartney had quickly found themselves in songwriting mode, often meeting "clandestinely in the afternoons in each other's rooms to review the new work. "Regardless of what I was supposed to be doing," Lennon would later recall, "I did write some of my best songs there."Close to forty new compositions had emerged in Rishikesh, a little more than half of which would be laid down in very rough form at Kinfauns, George Harrison’s home in Esher.

The Beatles left Rishikesh before the end of the course, with Ringo Starr and then Paul McCartney departing first, and Lennon and George Harrison departing together later. According to some reports, Lennon left Rishikesh because he felt personally betrayed by rumours that Maharishi had made sexual advances toward Mia Farrow, who had accompanied The Beatles on their trip. Shortly after he decided to leave, Lennon wrote a song called "Maharishi" which included the lyrics, "Maharishi/You little twat"; the song became "Sexy Sadie". According to several authors, Alexis Mardas (aka "Magic Alex") deliberately engineered these rumours because he was bent on undermining the Maharishi's influence over each Beatle. However, Lennon himself, in a 1980 interview, acknowledged that the Maharishi was the inspiration for the song. "I just called him 'Sexy Sadie'." In May 1968, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison assembled at Kinfauns, and demoed 23 songs that they composed at Rishikesh.

THE MONO AUDIO IS AMAZINGLY STRONG AND CLEAR. THERE IS ONLY MINOR DISTORTION THROUGHOUT ALL SIDES, THESE WE WOULD CLARIFY AS LOW CRACKLES AS THE VINYL PLAYS THROUGH WONDERFULLY WITH NO STICKS, NO MAJOR POPS OR JUMPS. EVEN BETWEEN TRACKS THE DISTORTION IS CLARIFIED AS LOW CRACKLE.

COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL BLACK INNERS. THE INNERS ARE IN SUPERB CONDITION....STILL CRISP AND STILL THEIR ORIGINAL DEEP BLACK COLOUR THE INNERS DISPLAY JUST THE EXPECTED MINOR CREASES FROM THE VINYLS BEING REMOVED FROM ITS SLEEVE. EACH INNER IS IN GREAT CONDITION WITH ONLY MINOR WEAR TO ONE OF THE CENTRE WINDOWS AND A SMALL SEAM SPLIT AS SEEN IN THE CORRESPONDING PHOTOGRAPH.

THE ORIGINAL FACTORY FOLDED POSTER IS NEAR MINT (IF POSSIBLE). THIS IS THE FIRST ISSUE POSTER. THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DISPLAYED AND CERTAINLY LOOKS AS THOUGH IT HAS NEVER EVEN BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SLEEVE MORE THAN A FEW TIMES.

THE ORIGINAL FOUR PHOTOS ARE PRESENT AND ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

The album's sleeve was designed by Richard Hamilton, a notable pop artist who had organised a Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Tate Gallery the previous year. Hamilton's design was in stark contrast to Peter Blake's vivid cover art for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and consisted of a plain white sleeve. The band's name was discreetly embossed slightly below the middle of the album's right side, and the cover also featured a unique stamped serial number, "to create," in Hamilton's words, "the ironic situation of a numbered edition of something like five million copies.” Indeed, the artist intended the cover to resemble the "look" of conceptual art, an emerging movement in contemporary art at the time. Later vinyl record releases in the U.S. showed the title in grey printed (rather than embossed) letters.

THE GATEFOLD "GARROD AND LOFTHOUSE"  NUMBERED 372824 SLEEVE IS SUPERB . STILL ITS TRUE WHITE COLOUR THE SLEEVE DISPLAYS JUST THE ODD BUT VERY TINY EDGE WRINKLE AND MINOR CREASES AND IT HAS NOT SUFFERED EXCESSIVE YELLOWING OVER A FORTY YEAR PERIOD. THE SPINE IS FANTASTICALLY SQUARE AND NEAT.

 THE FRONT OF THE SLEEVE STILL HOLDS ITS GLOSS SHINE AND IS VIBRANTLY WHITE. IT REMAINS VERY FLAT WITH EXTREMELY MINOR RINGWARE. THE OPENING TOP EDGES SHOW JUST THE SLIGHTEST SIGNS OF HANDLING WEAR AND THERE ARE VERY LIGHT CORNER BUMPS PRESENT.

THE INSIDE OF THE SLEEVE MATCHES THE FRONT WITH NEAR PERFECT INNER SEAMS AND UNSPOILT PICTURES AND TEXT, THERE IS ONLY VERY MINOR DISCOLOURATION PRESENT.

THE REAR IS WONDERFUL TOO WITH ONLY MINOR LIGHT WRINKLES AND LIFTS TO THE LAMINATE . 

THE  SPINE IS  BOLD, RIDGID AND INTACT WITH ONLY VERY VERY MINIMAL AMOUNT OF CREASING. "THE BEATLES" EMBOSSED LOGO AND THE NUMBER 372824 ARE BOLD AND STRONG TO THE EYE. THE SLEEVE STILL PORTRAYS THE "CRACKING" SOUND WHEN OPENED AS IF ONLY OPENED FOR A FEW TIMES PREVIOUSLY.

WHAT A FANTASTIC PIECE OF HISTORY UP FOR GRABS WITH A STARTING BID OF JUST £1.

FUTURE ALLADINS_CABIN AUCTIONS WILL INCLUDE:

THE WHITE ALBUM FANTASTIC 1ST PRESS FACTORY SAMPLE, TOP OPENING AND NUMBERED PRESSING.

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IF YOU HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS OF WHICH YOU NEED CLARIFYING, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT US AND WE WILL BE OF ANY ASSISTANCE FOR YOUR PIECE OF MIND ULTIMATELY.

 PLEASE DO NOT BID IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BUY AS PER THE ITEM DESCRIPTION ABOVE. THIS IS A LEGALLY BINDING CONTRACT UNLESS SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT THAN THAT DESCRIBED.

THANKS FOR LOOKING AND GOOD LUCK IN BIDDING.

ALLADINS_CABIN !!!

FOR CLARITY,

THIS ITEM WAS PREVIOUSLY AUCTIONED BUT WAS ENDED BY EBAY AS A CONSEQUENCE OF A COPYRIGHT VIOLATION WITHIN THE LISTING. MANY APOLOGIES TO PREVIOUS BIDDERS AND WE HOPE THIS SATISFIES ANY WORRIES OR QUERIES OUR POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS MAY HAVE. THANKS, ALLADINS CABIN.

WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT THE OUTER SLEEVE IS ALSO A RARE MONO WIDE SPINE EDITION THAT HAS AN 8MM WIDTH SPINE.