… and thus it was when this re-issue came in -- packaged on an O-card/slipcase, with a jewel case sized accompanying full colour 24 page booklet, consisting of the album’s lyrics, stats, and commentaries, including how the album cover for the record came about (its actually only here where I found out that the cover was actually an actual picture, and those pictures on the background which consists of THE BEATLES’ ‘favourite figures’ such as Alister Crowley, Marilyn Monroe, Dion DeMucci, Laurel & Hardy, themselves, Bob Dylan, Karl Marx, among many others are actual cut-outs and/or wax mannequin figures). The back of the cd cover inset on the case provides an outline of the figures on the cover denoted by numbers that are listed in the accompanying booklet, which also includes a replica of the original LP’s card of cut- outs.
Known for being the first LP to contain its lyric sheet (printed on the back of its sleeve), SGT PEPPER’S marked the band’s turn from the domineering grasp of their manager Brian Epstein, who packaged their Beatle-moptop image and on-stage etiquette, which would lead to Epstein’s suicide garnered by the desperation of coming into this among other personal reasons, as seen in their previous effort to this LP on the album REVOLVER, where Beatle-guitarist George Harrison have stepped on to incorporate the sound of psychedelia which made its way into the Beatles’ sound and thus inspiring the whole gamut of the Psychedelic 60’s. Harrison have only a single contribution for this album, and quite uncanny it is that his song for the SGT PEPPER S album comes totally drowned out on eastern sound, the song “Within You Without You”.
The album also featured the very first tracks that are intertwined to follow one another, without the common usual space in between the tracks so as to segue on what track would follow – as it is with its title track which opened the album that served as the intro to one among the three McCartney tunes that are freely attributed to Beatle-drummer Ringo Starr, “With A Little Help From My Friends”; the title track’s reprise also served that purpose for the last known “real” Lennon/McCartney song “A Day In The Life”.

Perhaps the very first record album that I ever heard which I authentically appreciated at the age of 6 (when STAR WARS have just came up in its earliest days to revolutionize the movie industry along with the invasion of those Japanese robot cartoon series’ on where I’m from, and before the advent of video games and the dawning of the digital era – when the television, pinballs, radio, comics and books are the only known form of entertainment media) being that my old man would always juxtapose us with Ray Conniff, Perry Como, and Perez Frado- blaring on our stereo to the expense of my tortured wondrous childhood-- SGT PEPPERS contained those tracks that could really blow me sky high, mainly containing some of the most phenomenal songs of the Beatles such as “Getting Better”, “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”, and the certain material of songs which paint vivid imagery on the epical scale for the likes of “She’s Leaving Home”, “When I’m Sixty Four”, and, yes the good stomp that could be found on Lennon’s “Good Morning Good Morning”. Other tracks such as “Lovely Rita” and “Fixing A Hole” are no notable exceptions.

This CD edition could be normally found priced for US$ 23.00 bucks or so – I got my copy only recently as it is imported locally in the Philippine residential areas for the price of P580 pesos; putting it in terms of UK pound, it could amount only to the total of approximately some 7.50 uk pounds!