THE BEATLES – SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND LP + CUT-OUTS – Nr MINT/EXC+ UK 1969 STEREO

The Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
(Parlophone Records  1969  PCS7027  Stereo)
Black/Silver Label with 1 EMI Logo
Matrix No’s: YEX637-1 GPA 2/YES638-1 GPH4 – UK Pressing

G&L Gatefold Sleeve in Excellent+ condition
– some wear to edges/corners
Cut Outs in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock era. Rooted in skiffle, beat, and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as “Beatlemania”, but as the group’s music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, they came to be perceived as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the counterculture of the 1960s.

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (often shortened to Sgt. Pepper) is the eighth studio album by English rock band the Beatles. Released in June 1967, the album, which included songs such as “With a Little Help from My Friends”, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, and “A Day in the Life”, now has over 70 million albums sold. Continuing the artistic maturation seen on the band’s album Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper further departed from the conventional pop rock idiom of the time and incorporated balladry, psychedelic, music hall, and symphonic influences.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Lennon–McCartney except where noted.

Track list information according to Graham Calkin, Mark Lewisohn and Ian MacDonald.

Personnel

According to Mark Lewisohn and Alan W. Pollack:

The Beatles

• John Lennon – lead, harmony and background vocals; lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars; piano and Hammond organ; harmonica, tape loops, sound effects and comb and tissue paper; handclaps, tambourine and maracas
• Paul McCartney – lead, harmony and background vocals; lead and bass guitars; piano, Lowrey and Hammond organs; handclaps; vocalizations, tape loops, sound effects and comb and tissue paper
• George Harrison – lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars; sitar; lead, harmony and background vocals; tamboura; harmonica and kazoo; handclaps and maracas
• Ringo Starr – drums, congas, tambourine, maracas, handclaps and tubular bells; lead vocals; harmonica; final piano E chord

Additional musicians and production

• Neil Aspinall – tamboura and harmonica
• Geoff Emerick – recording and mixing engineer; tape loops and sound effects
• Mal Evans – counting, alarm clock and final piano E chord
• Matthew Deyell – tambourine
• George Martin – producer and mixer; tape loops and sound effects; harpsichord (on “Fixing a Hole”), harmonium, Lowrey organ and glockenspiel (on “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!”), Hammond organ (on “With a Little Help from My Friends”), and piano (on “Getting Better” and the solo in “Lovely Rita”); final harmonium chord.
• Session musicians – four French horns (on “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”), (Neil Sanders, James W. Buck, John Burden, Tony Randall), arranged and conducted by Martin and McCartney; string section and harp (on “She’s Leaving Home”), arranged by Mike Leander and conducted by Martin; harmonium, tabla, sitar, dilruba, eight violins and four cellos (on “Within You, Without You”), arranged and conducted by Harrison and Martin; clarinet trio (on “When I’m Sixty Four”), as arranged and conducted by Martin and McCartney; saxophone sextet (on “Good Morning, Good Morning”), arranged and conducted by Martin and Lennon; and forty-piece orchestra (strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion) (on “A Day in the Life”), arranged by Martin, Lennon and McCartney and conducted by Martin and McCartney