Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet RED LABEL MONO STEREO UNBOXED Decca SKL4955 UK LP
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Rolling Stones
Beggars Banquet
Decca SKL 4955
Welcome! This auction is for an early pressing of The Rolling Stones 1968 lp "Beggars Banquet." This is a unique, insanely rare copy of this album. I believe it is an early South African issue that used the original british stampers. This lp was issued using a unique decca label. It is red with the decca logo unboxed and underneath it says "Full frequency stereophonic sound." Usually red labels were reserved for mono copies. This is an unusual variation. Even more unusual is the fact that this album was mistakenly pressed with one side mono and one side stereo from very early stampers. Side one is mono and stamped, XARL 8476 4A. Side two is stereo and is stamped, XZAL 8477 2K.
I am starting this auction at $75.00. If you want a rare, possibly unique copy of this classic, this is it. If you have any questions, please let me know. Happy Bidding!
Vinyl Condition: VG+ (The vinyl and labels are extremely clean. It is not perfect, however. I spot checked it and discovered that there is one mark that ticks a handful of times during Jig-saw Puzzle. Also, it has a slight dish. This does not affect the play. These were the only issues that I discovered and all areas that I checked played loudly and without any background noise at all.)
Jacket Condition: VG+ (The laminated sleeve is in great shape except for two bubbles in the lamination on the back of the jacket. The lamination is very tight in those areas and the two corners on the right have bubbled up. The bubbles are each about 1" by 3". The bubble on the top has popped).
This album was originally released by Decca Records in 1968. I don't believe the mono mix has ever been issued on CD. Here is the five star review of the mono mix from Allmusic.com
Review
Beggars Banquet was the last Rolling Stones album to be released in a mono mix; it showed up that way only in England and disappeared very quickly, and it is one of the rarest legitimate and official Stones album releases. This bootleg is taken from what sounds like a perfect mono source, and it runs circles around the ABKCO and English Decca stereo CD versions of Beggars Banquet -- not only do the instruments and singing seem twice as "close," but on many songs the fundamental sound is different. "Sympathy for the Devil" pounds away with a fury that the stereo version only hints at; "No Expectations" has a layer of instrumentation that's buried in the stereo version; the electric guitar on "Parachute Woman" has a louder, crunchier feel that's muted in the stereo mix, and the song actually sounds close in spirit and texture to the slow blues numbers on albums such as Rolling Stones Now! and 12 X 5. Indeed, one gets a full sense from the mono mix of the continuity between the group's playing here and on the records that preceded Beggars Banquet. The bonus tracks include an exquisitely mastered mono of "Jumping Jack Flash" and a brace of unreleased cuts -- the hard rocking "Highway Chile" (featuring a scintillating performance by Keith Richards on guitar), the instrumental "And I Was a Country Boy," an acoustic version of "Family," "Blood Red Wine," the slow, bluesy "Downtown Susie," and "Still a Fool" -- all of which slot very nicely into the pre-existing album. The bootleg comes in a digipack format that recreates the original cover art of the album from 1968.
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