Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [VINYL]

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The original release was so successful they needed to keep re cutting parts to supply the factory with stampers. Their extensive classical music collection, played through an enviable system, continually filled our house. I didn’t know it, but I’d built a reputation - people were listening, saying “Wow, that sounds good. Moss versions, the original Holland pressing, the Mobile Fidelity standard issue and UHQR, and the Japanese, UK and Australian red vinyl editions. Some clients were very technical and specific and others were musicians, and spoke more on a musical, emotional level.

In 2005, the album was placed at number one on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Pepper's was released in 1967 in both mono and stereo version with catalogue numbers PMC 7027 and PCS 7027 respectively. One day, a component salesman I knew stopped by and said “I was talking to a guy who is looking for someone to help in the mastering department of their record plant – would you find that interesting?Pepper’s… pressings over the years – the list includes the current re-masters (stereo and mono), the original UK yellow/black/silver Parlophone (stereo and mono), the UK “one box” and the “two box” Harry T. When you’re working in a factory, as I was before, there are production commitments, they needed 8 sides cut a day. Then one day, a producer wanted to be present when the record was cut, and they told Richard they wanted to make adjustments. DB - In the end, RCA decided to close the factory and I was sent to EMI, as I was told they might have a position for me. For this reason, whether we’ve purchased the album on vinyl or as a CD, most of us have been exposed to it only in stereo guise.

AnalogPlanet reader Bill Wright interviews Australian mastering engineer Don Bartley, who cut lacquers back in 1983 for what many consider to be the best sounding and certainly the rarest pressing of Sgt. Pepper – generally the Beatle aficionado’s preferred version – is on the fourth CD with six bonus tracks including what Apple are describing as “the lost version of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”and the Capitol Records Mono Mix of Penny Lane. It’s all beautifully done, as you might expect: few organisations part fans from their cash with such good taste and elegance as Apple Corps. Yellow Submarine is one of their more underappreciated albums, but it is still my favorite to this day.

And my mother was a bit of a bohemian - born in Paris during the 1920’s, her parents were members of the Lost Generation. The records have thestandard yellow block writing Parlophone label and the "All rights of the manufacturer" message around the edge of the label starts with "The Gramophone Co. For this album, George Martin suggested the collaboration with a professional artist to created the cover and so it was.