Beatles Posters

Can anyone tell me about these posters? Is the Sgt Peppers poster a record store promo poster?

Kath

 

Just a guess off the top of my head. Because the Sgt. Peppers poster says "The Original" at the top, I am thinking this is related to a reissue of the album.

 

Fig that could be...thanks

Kath

 

The Sgt Pepper's album came with a poster in it. It would have fold marks to match the album cover size.

 

The first shows them in about '64 - '65, but that doesn't necessarily mean the poster is that old.

 

Another thought... "The Original" could have been, well - original to the album. The album was creating a mythology about this Sgt. Peppers band that had supposedly been around for 20 years ("It was 20 years ago today..."). So if the poster was going along with the myth, perhaps it was original.

 

were they making prerecorded audio tapes when this album came out ?

 

Thanks for everyones input. I might list them together and see what happens. I thought they may have been something good

Kath

 

This one on ioffer says the date of 1978 is printed on it, so it's a reprint.

http://www.ioffer.com/i/beatles-promo-poster-vintage-sgt-peppers-534479086

Does yours have any date printed on it?

 

Just checked...mine has a 1978 date on it...wont bother listing it then

Kath

 

I don’t recall the Sgt. Pepper’s album having a poster insert. The White Album had those photo inserts but that’s the only Beatles album I’m aware of that had inserts.


Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Waters had a poster insert. The Who’s Live at Leeds came with copies of the concert contract. Harry Nilsson’s The Point! had a story book insert. I think a couple of Pink Floyd albums had inserts.

 

Sgt. Pepper's did have an insert, but it wasn't a poster, it was cardboard cutout: http://www.feelnumb.com/2011/11/09/...y-hearts-club-band-album-insert-cut-outs-art/
I have the Canadian release of Sgt. Pepper's and still have the insert inside.

 

Any Beatles stuff is collectable BTW.that top poster looks very interesting.

 

A friend would hang the first one over his bed if his wife would let him. (LOL)

 

Interesting link Kent.

Maybe I will list the top one.

Kath

 

Kath, I would list them both in the same auction.

 

I see that 1978 was also the year that the movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, starring the BeeGees, came out. So the phrase "The Original" on the poster may have been making reference to the fact that the Beatles version was the original.

I'm also seeing that Capitol Records reissued the Beatles' version of Sgt. Peppers as a picture disc that year, probably in conjunction with the movie version coming out.

 

Not the same poster, but the graphic of the Beatles is very similar... and issued in 1978.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-BEATLES...426?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a9a7b5632

One more... this one sold on a Best offer of $21.99. I think this one is just like yours, but the seller had something across the top that obscured the words "The Original"
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-Beatles...Poster-Reissue-1978-20x30-Sarge-/400763704157

So it's not completely worthless.

 

I had forgotten that Sgt. Pepper's insert 100%.

 

E J loved inserts ,to name a few... tumbleweed, madman, don't shoot me, and then of course ...Tommy.....& J B 's running on empty !!

It was hard to keep the inserts with the albums at party time........& it was always party time !!