The album's first release on CD. On the day of its release UK record shop chain HMV produced a special limited edition 12" numbered CD Boxed Set including:
A badge stating "It was 20 years ago today".
A booklet of black and white photos.
Cardboard cut-outs.
This set had a catalogue number of BEA CD 25/3, and was limited to 10.000 copies.
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Released in the USA in a cardboard long box.
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TheJudge 23rd Aug 2024
| | Further variant added (#3654970): Made in UK - EMI Swindon. |
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Quad5point1 SUBS 5th Mar 2018
| | Nod to PhilMH, added slightly tidier "Made In England" disc scan |
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gregs45s SUBS 8th Dec 2017
| | "Made in UK" Disc scan added.(rear tray artwork matches image 889875,apart from no "PM250" retail price code). |
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Apollo59 21st Aug 2017
| | @Magic Marmalade: When my friends tell me "Oh I have it downloaded etc", I always reply "well, you ain't got nothin'". I really can't believe that anybody who enjoys music could possibly settle for mp3's. Even the slightly better Flak sounds criminally bad to my ears. Of course, if all you've got is a laptop connected by mini-jack plug to some crumby speakers or one of these dreadful sounding speaker/receiver hubs, what does it it matter, it's all crap and nothing more than a slightly sophisticated child's toy. A few of my friends with this rubbish couldn't even switch my hi-fi sytem on. |
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Apollo59 21st Aug 2017
| | @Lee Wrecker: I bought it the day it came out - I also have the supporting In-Shop poster that advertised it. Sound wise - you're right, a decent vinyl copy does blow it away and I remember feeling most disappointed about that. But as a package with the decent booklet and that handy identifier of who's who on the sleeve, it's worth having. |
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Magic Marmalade 21st Aug 2017
| | I really only got it because I didn't yet have it on CD, and when the digital apocalypse comes, and wipes out everyone's streaming subscriptions, at least I'll have it to listen to, independently of any company or corporation telling me I can or not, or how or where I can, without paying through the nose simply to assist in boosting their share prices.
Physical formats offer the perfect way to thumb the nose at all the Digi-gogues and neo-luddites, like Zuckerberg, Gates, and company, who believe so absolutely in their right of ownership of our culture, and our interaction with it that they mistake technological advancement with the term: Progress; Without considering the immense damage they have done over the years.
(Sorry about that rant, I'm taking a few painkillers at the moment, and feeling a little loose in many respects :) |
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Lee Wrecker 21st Aug 2017
| | A 1987 CD now I'm not a sound engineer but I reckon any clean vinyl version would obliterate it for sound quality. Rarity takes many forms and a "no barcode" early poor sound quality CD doesn't really intrigue me at all. I suppose that's the pull of the name The Beatles on anything - I'm talking to you Mojo and Uncut magazine as well. |
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Quad5point1 SUBS 20th Aug 2017
| | Mine's a single sheet as well Magic |
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Magic Marmalade 20th Aug 2017
| | Got this today (but didn't pay a thousand pound and more for it! :), no slipcase, and it doesn't have all the booklet in there either, but the front cover inlay in mine is a single sheet, with the celebrity outlines on the reverse... should this be a single sheet, or has someone just cut the rest of the booklet away from the cover page on mine? |
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Quad5point1 SUBS 26th Jun 2017
| | TopPopper, Makes you wonder what it would be with booklet and slipcase. Guy's of his head |
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TopPopper 25th Jun 2017
| | Bargain! |
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sladesounds 11th Mar 2017
| | Added my "Made In Germany" disc scan |
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Syd Vliet 13th Sep 2015
| | I never liked the way they artificially looped and then faded the 'Inner Groove', it was only those who didn't have an automatic pick-up that would have heard it that way on vinyl (but not with a fade out of course). On the 1968 and 1970's gold UK cassette versions you heard it once only, which is how it should have been presented on the CD IMHO. Sadly the looped effect was also applied to the 2009 CD's. |
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okun69 24th Jun 2015
| | Ok, thanks Gregs78s. |
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gregs45s SUBS 24th Jun 2015
| | I,m afraid that's a duplication okun69,i added the Italian release myself a while back,and it is,in fact,a separate release i.e,it has a different Cat.No. (no CDP prefix),not to worry though,it's easily done.(I've submitted a correction). |
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okun69 22nd Jun 2015
| | Added scan of a disc saying Made In Italy. Although, when turned over by the centre are the words EMI SWINDON just after the catalog number. |
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fixbutte 1st Apr 2014
| | Like every serious pop or rock music fan in the 1970s, I had all the Beatles albums as vinyl LPs. When the first Beatles CDs came out in 1987, however, I had to buy at least two of them additionally. One was Abbey Road, which had been my first Beatles LP ever, the other was this one, the reason for the well-chosen worldwide release date of 1 June 1987. Eventually Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band had first been issued on LP on 1 Jun 1967, "it was twenty years ago today", as the band sang on the title song. This was also the only Beatles CD with a lavish packaging, a slipcase with a 32-page full-color booklet besides the jewel case, containing all lyrics (like the original LP cover had), band photos, notes by George Martin on the songs and by Peter Blake on the album cover, and - on particular fold-out pages - the cut-outs that had been enclosed to the original LP.
All pages of the original CD booklet (I don't know if they are still part of the CD issue) have now been uploaded. |
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An6y66 29th Mar 2014
| | An right just realised that's how it is on my cd sorry |
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TopPopper 29th Mar 2014
| | There is a barcode on the slipcase. I guess there'd be no point in printing it on the actual case, as it wouldn't be visible. |
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An6y66 29th Mar 2014
| | Strange there's no barcode on It for a 90's version... |
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TopPopper 29th Mar 2014
| | Added - another variant of the back inlay of the CD case - no Apple logo, and "Made in UK" in top corner. This copy purchased new circa 1990. |
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PhilMH 27th Mar 2014
| | Added my 1987 disc, back insert, and back slipcase. |
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An6y66 27th Mar 2014
| | Added my back of the slipcase, same as the back cover but has the barcode included
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PhilMH 27th Mar 2014
| | Interesting! My disc, UK pressing bought in Australia shortly after initial release, says "Made in England" on the disc face instead of "Made in UK". My back insert doesn't have the Apple logo, and neither does it have the "Made in the UK" and the PM number in the top-right hand corner. None of those on the original slipcase either (which I might try to scan, if I can get a few stickers off!). I forget exactly when the Apple logo was added to all the Beatles CD's, but my recollection is that it was at least a couple of years after the 1987 releases, and the Australian pressings eventually became available sometime in the early 90's, I think. |
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An6y66 27th Mar 2014
| | added disc image |
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JPGR&B SUBS 27th Mar 2014
| | Yes. |
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zabadak 27th Mar 2014
| | Is this the one on the card outer covering? |
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PhilMH 21st Mar 2014
| | This pressing exported around the world for worldwide release on 1 June 1987. Later repressed in many countries, with the Apple logo as well as Parlophone. |
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