UK and US Version Differences
Although the essential artwork on the album covers issued in the United States and the United Kingdom are similar, there are a few subtle differences on the sleeves. The front of the British jacket contains the words "NOTHING IS REAL" (taken from "Strawberry Fields Forever") in green print just below the album's title. This subtitle had been omitted from the American album cover. Also, the US cover says on the top right corner "Selections by the Beatles plus original film music".
On the back of the cover, the British album contained a review of the "White Album" written for The Observer by Tony Palmer. The review was introduced by a few liner notes by Apple press officer Derek Taylor. The American cover contained a fictitious illustrated biography of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, in which the ensemble's battle with the Blue Meanies was compared to three other epic struggles in the history of the English-speaking world: Beowulf's struggle to save the Heorot mead hall, King John's signing of the Magna Carta and Thomas Jefferson's writing of the Declaration of Independence.
The two album covers (and record labels) also differ in the fact that the British version recognises seven tracks from the film's score on side two, while the American version only recognises six tracks, treating the songs "Sea of Time" and "Sea of Holes" as a single track, titled "Medley: Sea of Time & Sea of Holes".
One final difference is that the American album was only released in stereo, while the British album was available in both stereo and mono, though the mono version is simply a fold-down of the stereo version and not a true mono mix (a fold-down is two stereo channels combined into one channel; see more at The Beatles in Mono). The mono LP does not include the true mono mix of "Only a Northern Song" and instead includes a fold-down of the fake stereo version that appeared on the stereo LP. A true stereo mix of the song was released in 1999 on the Yellow Submarine Songtrack and a true mono mix appears on the 2009 remaster of the original album.
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