The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band U.S. Rainbow Labels Viny LP VG

Description: UPDATE: ACTUAL PHOTOS ARE UPLOADED TO CORRECT PREVIOUS ERROR. APOLOGIES. The album is considered one of the first pop music concept albums and a milestone of the genre. With over 32 million copies sold, it is one of the world's best-selling music albums. Collectible combination of variants of the U.S. 1968 Jacksonville (IL), subsidiary Rainbow Labels, Gatefold pressing. Produced in England. Issued in gatefold cover; has moderate wear and small stain on top left; inside gatefold VG. Disc in VG condition with only a couple faint surface scratches that should not affect playability. Catalog #s:Inner labels = SMAS-2653Back cover = SMAS 2653Spine = 26531st catalog number on the back cover, 2nd on the labels, 3rd on the jacket spine and inside gatefold. See photos. CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS RELEASE:•Includes a cut-out insert, made with card stock, containing a photo of the band and some artwork! •Label is black with rainbow color band. •Rim print has the added words, "a subsidiary of Capitol Industries, Inc.." •STEREO on label is "chubby" print. •This thick print, in-house, West Coast style label variation also lists the full title "WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS" and has the album title on two lines. •Cover made of thick cardboard and has yellow "Stereo" line on top. •Back cover has no mention of NEMS nor Maclen anywhere. •Each track has "BMI" after "(Lennon-McCartney)" and before the track duration, including Side 2 Track 1 "(George Harrison)".•“A splendid time is guaranteed for all” on back cover Differences in the track titles on the inner labels:•A7 = BEING FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. KITE (which also is on two lines and runs into the label rim text! Rare!)•B4 = GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING•B5 = SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND Reprise (also on two lines) This is a Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Jacksonville IL pressing, identified by an "O" etched into the runouts. Some copies will have a stamped "0" instead. The variants on this disc are all etched. This release is a 2nd or 3rd pressing. Side A Runout Variant/Version String (this disc): SMAS1 2653 x8 #1 O (UNTIL NOW, THE ABOVE STRING WITH "X8" HAD ONLY BEEN DOCUMENTED AS VAR. 3 FOR SIDE B, WITH THE STRING'S BEGINNING AS "SMAS2", NOT "SMAS1", I.E., " SMAS2 2653 x8 #1 O", ALL ETCHED) Side B Runout Variant/Version: SMAS2-2653-W7 #2 O(UNTIL NOW, THE ABOVE STRING FOR SIDE B HAD ONLY BEEN DOCUMENTED AS VAR. 1 FOR SIDE A; ALL ETCHED) THEREFORE, IT APPEARS THAT THIS DISC HAS TWO DIFFERENT STRING VARIATIONS, WITH EACH ONE'S BEING DOCUMENTED ONLY FOR THE OTHER. KINDA 'GROOVY'. If you live in or near the Boston/Providence/Hartford triangle, email me here and we can meet in a public place to review the lot. Happy to deliver it halfway to you, within reason.

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