The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's - '4Th Proof' - Ex UK Vinyl LP Record PMC7027 Sgt. Pepper's - '4th Proof'

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Sgt. Pepper's - '4th Proof' - EX
THE BEATLES Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Extremely Rare variant of the 1967 UK first pressing 13-track MONO vinyl LP with 'Gramophone Co' & 'Sold In The UK' label credits, complete with intact sheet of cut-outs & red/pink psychedelicinner, this is the incredibly rare, highly coveted 'Fourth Proof' fully laminated internal flipback gatefold picture sleeve edition with 'patents pending' credit on the back along with the all important 'fourth proof' text on the back top flipback inside PMC7027) See 'more info' for further details on the condition of this exciting rarity!...

The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's - '4th Proof' - EX UK LP RECORD PMC7027

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Product Availability

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Release Year

1967 - 57 years ago

Condition

Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.

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Format

vinyl LP album (LP record)

Record Label

Parlophone

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Product Catalogue No

PMC7027

Music Genre

POP, Apple label, 60s Rock, 60s Beat, 60s Pop

Country

Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'

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Tracklisting & More Information

More Information & Condition

The Vinyl

The black and yellow Parlophone labels have just a few very faint spindle marks around the centre hole to show it has been played, but not to excess, and still have vivid colours with clear text. The vinyl itself shows barely a trace of play leaving it so close to Near Mint that it hurts, but we will have to settle for Excellent.

The matrix numbers are XEX 637-1 on side one and XEX 638-1 on side two.

The Sleeve

The 'Fourth Proof' sleeve is one of the first copies of Sgt. Pepper to have run off of the presses at EMI as just a very small number were made up for final review by the Beatles prior to full scale printing. These were put back into stock and used with the regular sleeves on the first part of the initial run.
Figures vary, but range from a very small fifty or so to a thousand. My estimate would be from one to a few hundred, based on an economical quantity to print of sufficient size that they were then passed to the production stage rather than being destroyed.
What is also of note is that in over thirty years of actively seeking things like this out, this is just the sixth one of these to have turned up. This would suggest that one to two hundred only is the most likely figure.

The Garrod & Lofthouse internal flipback, fully laminated picture sleeve is graded as Excellent; there is a 0.5cm tear to the opening and corresponding small crease, but is very hard to spot indeed. As already mentioned this has 'Fourth Proof' text on the back flipback in the right corner along with 'AR' & 'D1321' printed on the left, the back is also printed with the patents pending credit after the manufacturs name. This was not intended to have been made into a production sleeve and is now very sought after.

The flame inner shows minimal creasing and no tears or splits.

We never like to say never, however will we see another copy as nice as this? I wouldn't like to bet on it! If you don't grab this whilst you have the chance, don't say you weren't warned!

Tracklisting
1. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. With A Little Help From My Friends
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4. Getting Better
5. Fixing A Hole
6. She's Leaving Home
7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite
8. Within You Without You
9. When I'm Sixty Four
10. Lovely Rita
11. Good Morning Good Morning
12. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
13. A Day In The Life

LP RECORD

Recording Artist	The Beatles
Product Title	Sgt. Pepper's - '4th Proof' - EX
Product Information	The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's - '4th Proof' - EX UK vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language	All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info	Deleted - A deleted or out-of-print item is one that is no longer manufactured. However, we stock thousands of out-of-print formats and we specialise in tracking down out-of-print, deleted and hard-to-find releases.
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