LEGEND Legend 1971 UK VERTIGO 1st PRESS w/SWIRL INNER NEAR MINT
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LEGEND Legend 1971 UK VERTIGO 1st PRESS w/SWIRL INNER NEAR MINT
LEGENDLegend
UK Vertigo (6360 019) FIRST PRESSING (January 1971)
NICE COPY OF THIS RARE SWIRL WHICH PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY THROUGHOUT
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE UK VERTIGO LABELS
MATRIX: 6360019 1Y//3?420 11 4 / 6360019 2Y//4?420 12 1
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT GATEFOLD “Sleeve printed and made by Howards Printers (Slough) Ltd”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED VERTIGO COMPANY INNER SLEEVE DATED OCTOBER 1970 ('1070')
In some circles, Mickey Jupp is something of a minor legend, a roots rocker with excellent taste and a cutting wit, best heard on the songs "Switchboard Susan" and "You'll Never Get Me Up in One of Those," both covered by Nick Lowe. Basher's endorsement is a clear indication that Jupp is a pub rocker, a guy who specialises in laid-back good times, so it shouldn't come as a great surprise that his first band, Legend, was proto-pub, an unabashed celebration of old-time rock & roll, filled with three-chord Chuck Berry rockers and doo-wop backing vocals.
Nevertheless, listening to their 1970 LP is a bit of a shock, as it's completely disassociated with anything that was happening in 1970, even with Tony Visconti enlisted as their producer.
Legend's sensibility is ahead of its time in its retro thinking, pointing the way to the rock & roll revival of the late '70s and not even that similar to the country-rock of Eggs Over Easy or Bees Make Honey, as this has little of the rustic feel of the Band: it's just straight-up oldies rock, a trait emphasised by those incessant doo-wop harmonies that are on almost every cut on this LP.
Those harmonies and the light, almost goofy, touch of Jupp's writing here distinguish Legend and also illustrate why they made no waves in 1970; it's hard to see the counterculture getting roused over the verse "If you were an apple you'd be/Good good eating/If you were a book you'd be/Good good reading."
These slightly silly flourishes do have a lot in common with the wry humour of Nick Lowe, who at this time was denying this mischievous streak as he attempted to sound like Crosby, Stills & Nash, but at this point, Jupp was largely on his own doing this light, good-time pub rock.
That may be why it sank without a trace at the time, but heard apart from its era, Legend is a delight, one of the first flowerings of the pub rock sensibility
Side 1:
Cross Country (3:26)
Cheque Book (3:20)
Lorraine Part 1 (2:57)
Nothing Wrong With Me (2:05)
Somebody In Love (2:41)
Goin' To (2:36)
Side 2:
Anything You Do (3:07)
My Typewriter (2:55)
Five Years (2:58)
Hole In My Pocket (2:08)
Lorraine Part 2 (3:33)
I Feel Like Sleeping (3:15)
LABELS: EXCELLENT+
Clean, unmarked labels with only light/moderate spindle traces
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Clean surfaces with barely a mark to be seen
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Plays beautifully throughout with little of note to fault.
No scratches, clicks, ticks or pops.
Just a touch of low-level surface on the run-ins and in-between some of the tracks (nothing really)
Very nice copy of this rare Swirl
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD-
General wear to the edges, corners and spine and slight paper loss due to label removal on the front (please see close-up photos) but good and solid without any structural damage
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINERS, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
UK: £11.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £20.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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