ROLLING STONES LET IT BLEED LP UK ORIG MONO RARE PSYCH

	£		351
	$		465

Item :

THE ROLLING STONES ~ LET IT BLEED LP

Original 1969 U.K. mono pressing released on the unboxed Decca label LK 5025. 

Description :

Very rare and hard to find original Stones classic.

Let It Bleed is the eighth album by The Rolling Stones, released in December 1969 by Decca 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.

Although they had begun the recording of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" in May 1968, before Beggars Banquet had been released, recording for Let It Bleed began in earnest in February 1969 and would continue sporadically until November. 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".

The album has been called a great summing up of the dark underbelly of the 1960s. 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 Street (1972).

The album is often thought to be a response to Let It Be by The Beatles; though the Beatles would not release either the song or the album of that name until 1970, the major recording sessions had taken place in January 1969, prior to the majority of the Let It Bleed sessions, and it was generally known that the project existed. Theories vary as to whether the title was making fun of the Beatles' misplaced optimism and inability to complete their own album, or was an expression of solidarity with a recording process that had been just as taxing as the Stones'.

Released in December, Let It Bleed reached #1 in the UK (temporarily knocking The Beatles' Abbey Road out of the top slot) and number 3 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart in the US, where it eventually went double platinum.

Condition ~ Vinyl :

The vinyl is in stunning virtually pristine NEAR MINT condition.

Just one extremely faint hairline on side two only visible under a very bright light.

Almost as perfect as the day it was pressed.

Plays absolutely superbly throughout.

Gorgeous copy !!!

Condition ~ Sleeve :

The laminated stickered sleeve is in EXCELLENT shape with just very light overall wear. It has retained a deep glossy sheen and there are no splits, tears or writing. 

Condition ~ Sticker :

The sticker which states "Full Color Rolling Stones Poster Included" is in perfect condition. All corners are intact and there are no signs of any attempts to peel it.  

Condition ~ Poster :

The poster is still crisply folded in it's original state. Appears to have never been unfolded and there are no splits, tears or writing.

Condition ~ Inner Sleeve :

Comes complete with the original red and white Decca inner sleeve which has some light creasing but no splits, tears or writing.

Condition ~ Labels :

Both labels are perfectly clean showing only very light spindle wear. No writing.

Matrix Numbers :

Side one : XARL-9363P-2A

Side two : XARL-9364P-1A

Miscellaneous :

You'll be hard pressed to find a better original copy of this legendary classic album.

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