Paul McCartney - Tug of War - IMMACULATE MINT 1982 UK First Pressing Vinyl LP

	£		15
	$		20

Artist & Title: Paul McCartney ?– Tug of War

AS-NEW IMMACULATE MINT 1982 UK FIRST PRESSING 12-track vinyl LP, including Take It Away, Get It and Ebony And Ivory, housed in the original picture sleeve with illustrated lyric inner sleeve. Produced by George Martin, the album includes the blockbuster duet with Stevie Wonder on Ebony and Ivory. The record is in perfect as-new Mint condition and sounds as wonderful as ever. And the cover is in Excellent Plus condition. See pics. This is a superb collector’s copy of this post-Beatles, post-Wings Paul McCartney masterpiece.
Highly desirable for its First Pressing matrices and Mint condition vinyl, and increasingly difficult to find in this condition. This could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to add this one owner rarity to your collection at an extremely advantageous price.

Catalogue Number: Parlophone ?– PCTC 259

Release date: 19 Apr 1982

Overall Grade: Mint/Mint/EX+ (LP/Inner/Cover)

Matrix (Runout): Side 1: PCTC 259 A-8U PCTC 259A-1J PUSHING + PULLING SG?      Side 2: PCTC 259 B-8U PCTC 259B-1H PUSHING + PULLING SG?

Notes: Recorded in Montserrat and England.
This album was mixed digitally.
A1, A5, B1, B3, B5: ? 1982 Original sound recordings made by MPL Communications Ltd.
A2 to A4, B2, B4, B6, B7: ? 1982 Original sound recordings made by MPL Communications Inc.
Manufactured in the UK by EMI Records Limited.
Issued with a printed glossy heavy card inner sleeve containing lyrics and credits.

This historical LP is hardly ever offered for sale in this condition.

“the masterpiece everyone has always known Paul McCartney could make.”

This is the rare real thing: a genuine IMMACULATE MINT CONDITION 1982 UK FIRST PRESSING. The record is in perfect as-new condition, as is the immaculate mint inner, and the cover is also in excellent condition for its age - approaching mint. All items are free from any major defects such as tears, dog ears, scratches or writing. See pics. All items are the genuine originals bought together by me in 1982 (one careful owner!) not reprints or replacements. The LP is the original 1982 UK stereo LP, which was only played occasionally on top-end audiophile equipment and lovingly cared for.

“One of perhaps five essential albums Paul has made since leaving the Beatles, Tug of War was the first time McCartney had worked with George Martin since those heady times, and he rose to the occasion by producing an album that included some of his best tunes (with or without the other fab three) and his most concise lyrics.”

Like 1970's McCartney, 1980's McCartney II functioned as a way for Paul McCartney to clear the decks: to experiment and recalibrate in the aftermath of his band falling apart. This means 1982's Tug of War is, in many ways, the very first Paul McCartney solo album, a record recorded not at home but in a studio, a record made without Wings and not co-credited to Linda, who nevertheless is present as a backing vocalist. McCartney recognized this album as something of a major opportunity, so he revived his relationship with Beatles producer George Martin and brought in several heavy-hitters as guests, including his hero Carl Perkins, his Motown counterpart Stevie Wonder, fusion star Stanley Clarke, prog-rock refugees Eric Stewart and Andy Mackay, and his old bandmate Ringo Starr, whose presence was overshadowed by "Here Today," an elegy written for the murdered John Lennon. Tucked away at the end of the first side, "Here Today" is bittersweet and small when compared to all the show pieces elbowing each other for attention throughout Tug of War: the grave march of the title track, the vaudevillian "Ballroom Dancing," the stately drama of "Wanderlust," and sincere schmaltz of "Ebony and Ivory," the Wonder duet that helped turn this album into the blockbuster it was intended to be. As good as some of these numbers are – and they are, bearing an ambition and execution that outstrips latter-day Wings – much of the charm of Tug of War lies in the excess around the edges, whether it's the rockabilly lark of the Perkins duet "Get It," the later-period Beatles whimsy of "The Pound Is Sinking", the electro-throwaway "Dress Me Up as a Robber", or the long, electro-funk workout of "What's That You're Doing?", a track that's a fuller collaboration between Paul and Stevie than "Ebony and Ivory". Such crowd-pleasing genre-hopping finds its apotheosis on "Take It Away", a salute to eager performers and the crowds who love them, which means it summarizes not only the appeal of Tug of War in general – it is, by design, a record that gives the people old Beatle Paul – but McCartney in general.

This may be your only ONCE IN A LIFETIME chance to own this rare piece of music history in this condition.

 “George Martin's production makes this McCartney's most unabashedly Beatlesque effort.”

A fantastic time warp example of this rarity in amazing condition, a true investment grade item - get it while you can!

AND IT MUST SELL IN THIS ONCE ONLY AUCTION

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I pack my records professionally in stiff corrugated cruciform record boxes leaving the Vinyl (housed in anti-static bags) outside the Sleeve.

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£4 per additional LP, up to a maximum of 4, in the Rest of the World.

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