ROLLING STONES 'LET IT BLEED' 1969 1ST UK PRESS DECCA STEREO SO RARE

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YOU ARE BIDDING ON AN IMPOSSIBLY RARE UK 1ST PRESSING OF THE ROLLING STONES 'LET IT BLEED'!!!

Here is the background to the record courtesy of Wikipedia:

Let It Bleed is the eighth British and tenth American album by English rock band The Rolling Stones, released in December 1969 byDecca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States. Released shortly after the band's 1969 American Tour, it is the follow-up to 1968's Beggars Banquet and the last album by the band to feature Brian Jones as well as the first to featureMick Taylor.

History

Although they had begun the recording of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" in November 1968, before Beggars Banquet had been released, recording for Let It Bleed began in earnest in February 1969 and would continue sporadically until early November.[citation needed] Brian Jones performs on only two tracks, playing the autoharp on "You Got the Silver", and percussion on "Midnight Rambler". His replacement, Mick Taylor, plays guitar on two tracks, "Country Honk" and "Live With Me". Keith Richards, who had already shared vocal duties with Mick Jagger on "Connection", "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" and "Salt of the Earth", sang his first solo lead vocal on a Rolling Stones recording with "You Got the Silver".[3]

[edit]Release and reception

Road out of the top slot) and No. 3 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart in the US, where it eventually went 2x platinum.

The album was released in US as an LP record, reel to reel tape and 8-track cartridge in 1969, and as a remastered CD in 1986. In August 2002, it was reissued in a remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records, and once more in 2010 by Universal Music Enterprises in a Japanese only SHM-SACD version.[9]

In his 2001 Stones bio, Stephen Davis said of the album "No rock record, before or since, has ever so completely captured the sense of palpable dread that hung over its era."[10] Indeed, the day after its 5 December release is the date of the infamous Altamont Free Concert. But the album was critically well received.

Let It Bleed is the second of the Stones' run of four studio LPs that are generally regarded as among their greatest achievements artistically, equalled only by the best of their great 45s from that decade. The other three albums are Beggars Banquet (1968), Sticky Fingers (1971) and Exile on Main St. (1972).[11]

In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Let It Bleed the 69th greatest album of all time, while in 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 28 in its list of "The 100 Greatest British Albums Ever". In 2001, the TV network VH1 placed Let It Bleed at number 24 on their best album survey. In 1997 it was voted 27th greatest album by The Guardian. In 2003, it was listed as number 32 on the "List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".[12]

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YOU ARE BIDDING ON AN INCREDIBLY RARE COPY OF THE FIRST EVER 1969 'UNBOXED' DECCA UK PRESSING OF AN 1969 ALBUM BY THE ROLLING STONES CALLED 'LET IT BLEED'!!


ARTIST OR BAND: ROLLING STONES
ALBUM TITLE: BEGGARS BANQUET

Track listing

The track listing on the back of the album jacket did not follow the one on the album itself. According to Brownjohn, he altered the track listing purely for visual reasons; the correct order was shown on the record's label. Additionally, "Gimme Shelter" is rendered as "Gimmie Shelter" on the jacket.

All songs written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

Side one No. Title Length 1. "Gimme Shelter"   4:30 2. "Love in Vain" (Robert Johnson†) 4:19 3. "Country Honk"   3:07 4. "Live with Me"   3:33 5. "Let It Bleed"   5:27 Side two No. Title Length 6. "Midnight Rambler"   6:52 7. "You Got the Silver"   2:50 8. "Monkey Man"   4:11 9. "You Can't Always Get What You Want"   7:30



LABEL: 1ST PRESSING 'UNBOXED' DECCA LABEL (UK). EXCELLENT PLUS (+) CONDITION SMOOTH BLUE / SILVER DECCA  RECORDS UK PRESSING FOR EARLIEST EVER 1ST STEREO PRESSING!!
LABEL CONDITIONS: BOTH EXCELLENT PLUS CONDITION, WITH MINIMAL SPINDLE MARKS AND NO LABELS DAMAGE AT ALL!! NO WRITING, SMUDGES, SPINDLE DAMAGE WHATSOEVER!!
CATALOGUE NUMBER: SKL 5025 EARLIEST EVER AND IMPOSSIBLY RARE 1969 PRESSING IN STEREO!!
RECORD SPEED:  'SPEED 33 1/3rd'
WARPS: PLEASE ASSUME THAT THE RECORD LIES FLAT AND PLAYS WELL
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: LABELS ARE MARKED 'MADE IN ENGLAND BY THE DECCA RECORD CO.LTD, LONDON'
RARITY: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE RARITY OF THIS RECORD!! HERE IS A LIST OF REASONS WHY THIS IS SUCH A SPECIAL AND 'AWESOME' CONDITION RECORD THAT IS FOURTY THREE YEARS OLD!!:

THIS 1969 PRESSING WAS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY DELETED AND REPLACED WITH THE MUCH MORE FAMILIAR DECCA 'BOXED' LABEL BY 1970!! MOST SELLERS ARE OFFERING MUCH LATER SEVENTIES AND EIGHTIES RE-PRESSINGS, WITH THE COMMON DECCA LOGO ENCLOSED WITHIN A BOX!!
ORIGINAL 1969 1ST PRESSING ON 1ST PRESS 'UNBOXED' DECCA  BLUE / SILVER LABELS
SINGLE FRONT PANEL LAMINATED  SLEEVE ONLY AVAILABLE ON EARLIEST PRESSINGS!
1ST PRESS 2W/1W STEREO MATRIX ENDINGS
1ST PRESS 'CLARIFOIL' SLEEVE WITH 'PATENTS PENDING'!!! (SEE PHOTO'S)
ORIGINAL YEAR OF RELEASE: 1969
MATRIX NUMBERS: SIDE ONE  XZAL - 9363 - P - 2W SIDE TWO XZAL 9364 - P - 1W SUCH EARLY NUMBERS!!
STAMPER CODES: 'C1 J7 / C1 J7' SUCH AN EARLY PRESSING!! 
RUN OUT ETCHINGS: NONE ON RECORD
BACKGROUND ON THE COVER:

The cover displays a surreal sculpture designed by Robert Brownjohn.[13] The image consists of the Let It Bleed record being played by the tone-arm of an antique phonograph, and a record-changer spindle supporting several items stacked on a plate in place of a stack of records: a tape canister labelled Stones – Let It Bleed, a clock face, a pizza, a tire and a cake with elaborate icing topped by figurines representing the band. The cake parts of the construction were prepared by then-unknown cookery writer Delia Smith.[14] The reverse of the LP sleeve[15] shows the same "record-stack" melange in a state of disarray. The artwork was inspired by the working title of the album, which was Automatic Changer.[16]

The album cover for Let It Bleed was among the ten chosen by the Royal Mail for a set of "Classic Album Cover" postage stamps issued in January 2010.[17][18]

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COVER GRADE & FORMAT: THIS IS AN EXCELLENT 'GARROD & LOFTHOUSE' COVER IN VERY GOOD CONDITION!! THIS IS THE 1ST PRESSING SINGLE FRONT LAMINATED COVER PRODUCED WITH 'CLARIFOIL', WITH 'PATENTS PENDING' CLEARLY MARKED!! (SEE PHOTO'S)
COVER FRONT: A REALLY GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS SUPER ALBUM!! MOST COPIES OFFERED ARE MUCH LATER EARLY SEVENTIES COPIES ON 'BOXED' DECCA LABELS *** THIS IS A GENUINE 1969 1ST PRESS!!*** FLAT FRONT PANEL, WITH TINY IF ANY  EDGE WEAR ON THE FRONT TOP AND BOTTOM EDGES OF THE PANEL. COVER IS NICE AND SHINY WITH MODERATE  'RUBBING'  WITHIN THE LAMINATE PANEL. MODERATE  CREASING AND LIFTING WITHIN THE LAMINATE. THIS IS NOT AN ULTIMATE UPGRADE COPY IN MINT CONDITION, BUT VERY PRESENTABLE AND IN VERY GOOD CONDITION NONE THE LESS OF A RARE ALBUM
COVER BACK: VERY MUCH LIKE THE FRONT PANEL AND VERY GOOD CONDITION, THIS COVER IS  CLEAN WITH MINIMAL / TINY  RUBBING WITHIN THE MATT CARD, WITH MINIMAL CREASING!!! SOME EVIDENCE OF A SELLOTAPE AND A BLUE MARK NEAR BOTTOM LEFT BOXED DECCA LOGO. SLEEVE EAR IS MARKED 'C.1969 THE DECCA RECORD COMPANY LIMITED, LONDON'. AND THE ALL IMPORTANT 'UK PATENTS APPLICATION NO 43212/68'!! COVER HAS THE FIRST PRESSING 'CUT OUT' ROUND HOLE TO DENOTE THE BLUE INNER SLEEVE OF A STEREO PRESSING!!
COVER CENTREFOLD: SINGLE SLEEVE ONLY
TOP & BOTTOM EDGES: TOP EDGES ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, AND PROTECTED BY LAMINATE ON ALL EDGES, WITH NO SPLITS OR TEARS
RIGHT EDGE: SIMPLY EXCELLENT CONDITION WITHIN MINIMAL CREASING AND MINIMAL IF ANY EDGEWEAR ON THE OPENING EDGE!
SPINE AND TEXT: EXCELLENT MINUS (-) CONDITION! MINOR CREASING ONLY AND ALL WORDS FULLY LEGIBLE AND UNDAMAGED!! 
CORNERS: ALL ARE IN EXCELLENT MINUS (-) CONDITION, WITH MINOR WEAR POINTS ON ALL EDGES 
THE INNER SLEEVE: AT LEAST VERY GOOD CONDITION MODERATE  CREASING AND YELLOWING ON BLUE AND WHITE POLY-LINED SLEEVE!! (SEE PHOTO'S). PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, 1ST PRESS INNER FROM FORTY THREE YEARS AGO!! 
VINYL CONDITION: THIS RECORD IS EXCELLENT CONDITION!! I GRADE VERY CRITICALLY!! HEAVYWEIGHT PRESSING WITH MINOR PAPER SCUFFS AND HAIR LINES,  AND A COUPLE NAIL MARKINGS. STILL RETAINS A VERY NICE DEEP SHINE AND VERY, VERY SOLID COPY OF THIS SUPER RARE ALBUM!!
ALBUM PLAYBACK: MY ALBUMS ARE ALWAYS PLAYED ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO ENSURE ACCURATE GRADING AND FULL CUSTOMER SATISFACTION. I AM SO DELIGHTED THAT THIS RECORD PLAYS AS WELL AS IT LOOKS!! PLAYBACK MUST AS EXCELLENT (-) MINUS CONDITION THROUGHOUT MY PLAY THE RECORD DID NOT JUMP OR STICK AT ALL! I NOTICED NO NASTY POPS, WITH MINOR CRACKLE / BACKGROUND NOISE WITHIN THE QUITE SECTIONS AND RUN-IN'S ON THE PLAYBACK!! I GRADE ALL OF MY ALBUMS VERY HARSHLY!! CHECK OUT MY FEEDBACK!!
SO THERE YOU HAVE IT!! A SUPERB PRESSING FOR ANY ROLLING STONES  FAN!! I OFFER FANTASTIC SERVICE, WITH SUPERB AND SAFE PACKAGING, AND SUPER FAST DELIVERIES.
BID WITH CONFIDENCE!!!

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