QUEEN-JAZZ-EMI 1ST PRESS 1U/1U EMA.788 1978 WITH BICYCLE RACE POSTER-EX++
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£ 22 Sold For
Jul 29, 2012 Sold Date
Jul 19, 2012 Start Date
£   5 Start price
6   Number Of Bids
  Great Britain Country Of Seller
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QUEEN-JAZZ TYPE SINGLE LP-STEREO LABEL/PRESSING INFO

EMI 1ST PRESSING WITH MATRIX NUMBERS: YAX 5550-1U/YAX 5551-1U and STERLING stamped into runoff grooves

CATALOGUE NUMBER EMA 788 YEAR OF RELEASE 1978 COUNTRY OF RELEASE U.K. SLEEVE TYPE GATEFOLD-1ST ISSUE GARROD & LOFTHOUSE UNLAMINATED MATT FINISH WITH EMBOSSED PINK JAZZ FRONT AND REAR ((AND PERFORRATED REAR OUTER EDGE WITH POSTER,(POSTER HAS BEEN REMOVED ,SEE BELOW)) INSERTS/EXTRAS ORIGINAL CARD PICTURE INNER WITH GLOSSY FINISH and LARGE FOLDOUT "BICYCLE RACE" POSTER   GRADING/CONDITION DISC(s) EXCELLENT++(LOVELY CLEAN RECORD with MINIMAL playwear and MINIMAL handling marks PLAYS BRILLIANTLY THROUGHOUT) LABELS

EXCELLENT++ ( LOVELY AND CLEAN with NO writing stickers or removal marks, rips or tears, TRACE spindleusage,and NO play and handling wear.

SLEEVE

 

Front board EX+ NICE CLEAN SLEEVE with NO writing rips tears sticker marks etc or creases, and just a little light storage and handling wear. INNER GATEFOLD is clean and unmarked with MINIMAL handling Rear board EX+ REAR white board is as the front clean and unmarked with VERY LIGHT ageing and handling wear Flipbacks N/A N/A Spine EX+ COMPLETE uncrushed with a bit of rubbing colourloss Top & bottom edge EX+ TOP and BOTTOM edges have LIGHT wear with a bit of surface rubbing wear to black front edge Opening EX+ VERY LIGHT wear and MINIMAL usage Corners EX+ ALL corners have LIGHT wear only.   INNER /EXTRAS

INNER SLEEVE: EXCELLENT++ (REALLY NICE EXAMPLE with a higloss shine. MINIMAL handling marks NO edge wear and just a VERY LIGHT pressure mark.

POSTER: EXCELLENT+ (ALTHOUGH it has been removed from the edge of the sleeve, a lot were,and adorned many a halls of residence bedroom wall, it is still in top condition and has spent most of its life inside the sleeve,and has NO rips tears,creases where they shouldn't be and definitely no evidence of being hung on a wall,halls of residence or anywhere else.)

  DETAILS

Famously tagged as "fascist" in a Rolling Stone review printed at the time of its 1978 release, Jazz does indeed showcase a band that does thrive upon its power, thrilling upon the hold that it has on its audience. That confidence, that self-intoxication, was hinted at on News of the World but it takes full flower here, and that assurance acts as a cohesive device, turning this into one of Queen's sleekest albums.

Like its patchwork predecessor, Jazz also dabbles in a bunch of different sounds -- that's a perennial problem with Queen, where the four songwriters were often pulling in different directions -- but it sounds bigger, heavier than News, thanks to the mountains of guitars Brian May has layered all over this record. If May has indulged himself, Freddie Mercury runs riot all over this album, infusing it with an absurdity that's hard to resist.

This goofiness is apparent from the galloping overture "Mustapha," and things only get a lot sillier from that point out, as the group sings the praises of "Fat Bottomed Girls" and "Bicycle Races," as May and Mercury have an unspoken competition on who can overdub the most onto a particular track while Roger Taylor steers them toward their first disco song in the gloriously dumb "Fun It."

But since over-the-top campiness has always been an attribute in Queen, this kind of grand-scale exaggeration gives Jazz a sense of ridiculousness that makes it more fun than many of their other albums.

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