Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

(Special Edition Stereo) '2-LP 50th Anniversary Edition

1st LP - New Stereo Mix by Giles Martin
2nd LP - Sgt. Pepper Studio Sessions

Insert 1 - 12' x 12' Card with Sgt Pepper Cut Outs
Insert 2 - 12' x 12' Folded Insert with Information about Anniversary Edition
Gatefold Cover

Pressed In Germany
Made in the EU

Spine reads 'Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band 2 LP Edition' and is printed so that it is read bottom-to-top when record is shelved

Track 2 is listed as: 'A Little Help From My Friends' instead of 'With A Little Help From My Friends''[discogs]

Gatefold cover. Includes insert.[kostasg]

(Picture Disc Album) Sleeve printed and made in Great Britain By Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd Record manufactured in West Germany.[moonag]

Italian issue on blue Parlophone label with black lettering. Boxed SIAE and EMI on bottom of label. Non laminated gatefold sleeve.[juliens]

Original Singaporean issue on black Parlophone label with silver and yellow lettering. Issued in a British-made Garrod & Lofthouse laminated gatefold sleeve with flipback at inner spread top. Contains a single-sided card insert. Comes with printed red inner sleeve.[juliens]

No label code.[philip]

(Picture Disc Album) Sleeve printed and made in Great Britain By Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd Record manufactured in West Germany.[moonag]

Laminated gatefold sleeve.[juliens]

Label with the red Hör Zu logos. Laminated gatefold sleeve. With Insert.[moonag]

Double Hör Zu logos and Boxed GEMA logos. Fully laminated gatefold sleeve.[juliens]

Italian issue on blue Parlophone label with black lettering. Boxed SIAE and EMI on bottom of label. Non laminated gatefold sleeve.[juliens]

Rare press mainly German but with French rim text. German Gatefold sleeve.[philip]

Original Taiwan pressing on black Liming Record label with silver print. Transparent orange vinyl. Released in a poly-coated cardboards sleeve. [emil]

Gatefold sleeve. Has an 'n' after cat# and a circle in the lower right corner of backcover. [emil]

No insert. Black colourband Capitol labels. Thick heavy gatefold.[philip]

(Limited Edition Reissue Stereo) 'A splendid time is guaranteed for all
All rights for the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines controlled by MACLEN MUSIC INC.

1995 purple label re-issue was part of new US pressings of their UK catalog, using the same catalog #s as the CD.

This is different than the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1988 re-issue is a few ways:
-The catalog # now used the barcode C1 07777 7 46442 1 1
-The logos on the back cover now include the Parlophone and Apple logos (see photo)
-The logos on the label now include the Parlophone and Apple logos

Some pressings came with a 1' x 3' black 'hype sticker' (applied on the shrink-wrap) that states 'LIMITED EDITION C1-46442' (see photo).
Contains the cut-out insert.
Matte gatefold cover.
Transparent inner sleeve.

Matrix notes:
The (ɑ) stands for the stamp of Allied Record Company. '[discogs]

4th and last HÖR ZU-pressing with smaller Odeon logo and smaller ST 33 in ellipses. fully laminated gatefold sleeve.[juliens]

Gatefold sleeve, no insertphilip][philip]

No insert.[philip]

No insert.
(Stereo) 'Lime green capitol target label with all uppercase font.
'[discogs]

With cutout card (actually made from thin paper)[philip]

No insert.[philip]

2-Box EMI/Parlophone labels. Different copyright text see scan. Gatefold sleeve.

comes with original insert. laminated gatefold sleeve.[juliens]

Gatefold sleeve , no insert.[philip]

Gatefold sleeve.[philip]

With cutout card (Pictured)

No cut-out card. Thick cardboard gatefold sleeve with 2653 inside on George's shoulder., Apple label with 'Mfd. By Apple Records, Inc.' only written on bottom of full apple label. [emil]

SMAS1 2653 B16 / SMAS 2-2653-x4 Matrix. Black colourband Capitol labels. Thick heavy gatefold.[philip]

Fully laminated non flipback gatefold sleeve.

Most likely 1972, since that was the year of a massive Beatles catalogue repress campaign after the highly successful Beatles Day on Radio Veronica, February 1972

>Event though pressed and printed in The Netherlands, the cover keeps its standard text on back cover, above and below Parlophone and EMI logos:

© All lyrics copyright 1967 for the world by
Northern Songs Ltd. England

E.M.I. Records
(The Gramophone Co. Ltd.)
Hayes - Middlesex - England
Made and Printed in Great Britain
Recording produced by George Martin
Cover by M C Productions
and The Apple
staged by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth
photographed by Michael Cooper
Wax figures by Madame Tussauds
This is a stereo recording.
A splendid time is guaranteed for all



Some copies come with Sgt. Pepper's cut-outs insert and/or Psych inner sleeve. Although it may be more accurate to say that some copies will have lost their insert over time.

Also released with different labels[discogs]

Label rim text reads: 'All Rights Of The Producer And Of The Owner.....Made In England'. Non laminated gatefold sleeve with 'cut-outs' insert. Published with black/silver Parlophone label and two boxed EMI boxed. [emil]

Matrix: SMAS-2-2653-A1, SMAS-1-2653-B2.
Black colourband Capitol labels.
Thick heavy gatefold. [philip]

Contains insert.
2 box labels.
Laminated gatefold sleeve.
Made In Gt Britain text along bottom of labels.

'2nd HÖR ZU-pressing with original runout-matrix
Gatefold sleeve and with cut-out sheet.

Relevant features of this release: 'The Beatles' written in caps on labels; old 'HörZu' logo; 'GEMA' in only one box.
'[discogs][]

Gatefold sleeve.

Relevant features of this release:
'The Beatles' written in little letters on labels;
old 2 'HörZu' logo;
'GEMA' in only one box.
'[discogs][]

2-Box EMI/Parlophone labels. Made In Gt Britain at 3 O'Clock on labels and not under bottom EMI box. Gatefold sleeve.[philip]