The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s LHCB Original Capitol FIRST MONO PRESSING LP

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In this auction:

• “SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND” LP by The Beatles

• This LP is Capitol Records MAS - 2653.

• This LP was issued June 1, 1967.

• This is a MONAURAL (MONO) PRESSING.

• In fact, this is a FIRST MONO PRESSING OF THIS LP. We know this because:

  • “Subsidiary” is not in the label’s perimeter printing.

  • The Side 1 label has the shortened song title “A Little Help From My Friends”. (The second Mono pressing has the correct title “With a Little Help From My Friends”.)

  • First Pressing Covers do NOT credit Maclen Music or NEMS Enterprises. (Later covers added this information to the lower right corner on the rear of the cover in vertical print.)

• The vinyl comes in its properly marked MAS – 2653 MONO COVER.

• The “O” in the trail-off indicates that this record was produced at Capitol’s Jacksonville pressing plant.

• The VINYL is in NICE VG CONDITION with a number of very light surface hairlines (but none of them “feel-able”). The Side 2 label has some slight “shadow-printing” of the LP title and catalog number. This was done at the time of production. The VINYL has LOTS OF GLOSS!

• The COVER is in NICE/STRONG VG CONDITION. There is moderate overall wear. The front cover image is nice and clean with some light to moderate wear at the top in the sky area. The red rear cover is VERY NICE and does not show much wear at all. (As you’ve probably seen before, the red rear covers of Sgt. Pepper LPs were often prone to show wear more easily than the front cover.) The corners have some light to moderate wear. The image inside the gate-fold cover is nice and clean. (Please check out the images.) There are NO SEAM SPLITS, NO FLAKING ON THE SEAMS, NO RING WEAR, NO TEARS and NO WRITING on this cover.

• This LP comes with its ORIGINAL CUSTOM RED, PINK and WHITE PAPER INNER SLEEVE that is quite flat. It has a 4 -inch split in the middle of the bottom edge and a 3 -inch split on one of the side edges.

• It also comes with its ORIGINAL POSTER-BOARD INSERT OF CUT-OUTS on thick paper and has light signs of handling. There is a little bit of scuffing at the top left corner and a light stain at the bottom of the “Cut-Outs Box” downward through just under the center of the moustache. (I noticed that the flash of the camera has exaggerated the stain in the image of the cut-outs sheet. It’s really not as pronounced when viewed under normal lighting.)

• I once read that John Lennon at one time remarked that you haven’t really heard “Sgt. Pepper” as it was intended to sound until you’ve heard it in the original Mono.)

The MONO PRESSINGS of “SGT. PEPPER”, especially FIRST PRESSINGS, have become VERY DESIRABLE and SOMEWHAT HARDER-TO-FIND.

A FIRST MONO PRESSING OF THIS BEATLES’ LANDMARK LP complete with original inner sleeve and “cut-outs” insert to add to your vinyl collection.

Thanks to the Price Guide for the Beatles American Records, 6th Ed. by Perry Cox and Frank Daniels for some information about this LP.

FYI: I use the COVER/SLEEVE GRADES and RECORD GRADES listed and described on page 8 of the

 Price Guide for the Beatles American Records, 6th Ed. for grading. These grades are Poor (P),

 Fair (F), Good Minus (G-), Good (G), Good+ (G+), Very Good Minus (VG-), Very Good (VG), Very

Good Plus (VG+), Near Mint Minus (NM-), Near Mint (NM), Mint Minus (M-), and Mint (M or

MT) to VISUALLY GRADE this LP, so please know the descriptions of these grades before bidding.

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