Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 1969 Danish Parlophone label 2nd Issue 13-track LP

Scarce 1969 Danish pressed Parlophone/EMI label 13-track vinyl LP - the 2nd pressing of The Beatles utterly neccessary psychedelic 1967 album.

Vinyl has the matt black and silver company labels with upper boxed and side-striped 'Parlophone' logo and lower boxed 'EMI' logo.

Vinyl is housed in a generic plain white inner sleeve and a fully laminated British Garrod & Lofthouse gatefold picture cover - complete with intact sheet of colour card cut-outs.

Condition: VG++ (Vinyl and Labels)/M- (Insert)/M- (Cover):

Vinyl is superlustrous and extremely close to perfect - a single far from audible mark in the beginning of Side 1 - otherwise shiny perfect vinyl Perfect labels as well.
Cover is beautifully perfect without any signs of handling - clean laminate, deep colours, straight seams and sharp corners - a very nice copy.

Tracklisting :

Side 1:
1. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 2:00
2. A Little Help From My Friends 2:42
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 3:28
4. Getting Better 2:48
5. Fixing A Hole 2:36
6. She's Leaving Home 3:25
7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite 2:37

Side 2:
1. Within You Without You 5:05
2. When I'm Sixty-Four 2:37
3. Lovely Rita 2:42
4. Good Morning, Good Morning  2:42
5. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) 1:18
6. A Day In The Life 5:38

All songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except "Within You Without You" by George Harrison.

Recorded 6 December 1966 – 21 April 1967 at EMI and Regent Sound, London    
Cover printed by by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.

Vinyl pressed by Electric & Musical Industries (Dansk-Engelsk) A/S, Høffdingsvej 18, 2500 Valby

Credits:

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, vocal percussion, 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 and tambura| lead, harmony and background vocals| harmonica and comb and tissue paper| handclaps and maracas
Ringo Starr - drums, congas, tambourine, maracas, handclaps and tubular bells| lead vocals| harmonica| final piano E chord

Additional musicians:
Neil Aspinall - tamboura and harmonica
Mal Evans - counting, alarm clock and final piano E chord
Matthew Deyell - tambourine
George Martin - 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:
Neil Sanders, James W. Buck, John Burden, Tony Randall - Four French horns (on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band") 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
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

Technical credits:
Geoff Emerick - recording and mixing engineer| tape loops and sound effects
George Martin - production and mixer| tape loops and sound effects

Artwork:
Peter Blake and Jann Haworth - Cover design
Paul McCartney - Cover Concept
Robert Fraser - art-direction
Michael Cooper - photography