Rolling Stones
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My name is Brian Carroll and I used to be a recording engineer at IBC studios in London during the 60s and 70s. I mastered tracks by Jimi Hendrix (who I met) and the Who including ?A Quick one ??The Who sell out? and ?Live at Leeds (which I have for sale). I also cut for Atlantic records including Booker T and Otis Redding as well as many other hits.
I also produced tracks by The Factory (Psych rock ?Path through the forest/Try a little sunshine) One Way Ticket and Five Day Rain which are now collectable to those that like music from the that era.
In April 1964 the Rolling Stones released their first album and if you have a copy of the ORIGINAL it has been valued to up to £1,000. In that year I was working in a record shop in Hampstead when a box of 25 copies of the album arrived. I immediately bought one
This is that album.
As we now know, record collectors value the very first pressings of records above all, because the fresher the ?stampers? are that actually pressed the vinyl, the fresher the sound. ?First? pressings of the UK release are all on a red/silver Decca?ear? label. There are, however, some differences between first pressings.
The very first issue, which is the one that fetches bigger money and is here on sale, plays a different version of that first Jagger / Richards?s composition ?Tell Me? with a running time of 2:52. This edition is recognizable by the matrix number (printed between the label and where the grooves end) of side B: XARL 6272-1A. (See picture)
All later issues (with varying matrix numbers) play a different version of ?Tell Me? with a running time of 4:06, albeit there are five label variations and four cover variations in existence, making for twenty-one different versions of a ?first pressing?.
Sleeves that credit the 4th track on side A as ?Mona? (RRPG: £250 mint) rather than ?I Need You Baby? (£130 mint) are also more highly valued. I was one of those teenagers who had no thought of keeping it un-played to sell on Ebay nearly 50 years later and being a fan it was on the turn table all the time but I handled it well so the condition is good. Unfortunately it can?t be said to be the same in regards to the sleeve. As you can see age has caught up with it and I have no other explanation but the disc did not go the same way.
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