Supertramp - Breakfast in America - Genuine MINT 1979 UK First Issue Vinyl LP

	£		16
	$		21

Artist & Title: Supertramp ?– Breakfast in America

Rare MINT 1979 UK FIRST ISSUE 10-track vinyl LP. The progressive art-rocker's 6th studio album featuring the singles The Logical Song, Goodbye Stranger and Take the Long Way Home. Housed in a picture sleeve with illustrated lyric inner. The picture sleeve is in excellent to near mint condition and the vinyl is mint – a beautifully kept, stunning example!
The record is in Mint condition and sounds as wonderful as ever, while the cover and original illustrated inner sleeve fully deserve an Excellent Plus grading. See pics. A superb copy of this masterpiece of 70s progressive rock!
Highly desirable for its first issue matrices and Mint condition vinyl, and increasingly difficult to find in good condition on vinyl, this could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to add this superb rarity to your collection at an extremely advantageous price.

Catalogue Number: A&M Records ?– AMLK 63708

Release date: 29 March 1979

Overall Grade: MINT/EX+ (LP/Cover)

Matrix/Runout: Side 1: AMLK 63708 A10 DICK   Side 2: AMLK-63708-B9

Label: "Original sound recording made by A & M Records Inc."
? & © 1979 A & M Records Inc.
Produced by SUPERTRAMP and PETER HENDERSON
Words and Music by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson
All titles Rondor Music (London) Ltd.

Sleeve made and printed in England by Gothic press Ltd. London SE9 2EQ.

This mega-smash LP from Supertramp at their creative peak is hardly ever offered for sale in this condition.

“Supertramp practically OWNED 1979 with their mega-smash album from that year, Breakfast In America.”

This is the extremely rare real thing: a genuine Mint/Ex+ condition UK first issue. The record is in Mint condition and the cover is in Excellent Plus condition. All items are free from any major defects like scratches, tears, creases, dog-ears, stickers, writing, stains or the like. See pics. All items are the genuine originals bought together by me in 1979, not reprints or replacements. The LP is the original 1979 UK stereo LP, which was only played occasionally on top-end audiophile equipment and lovingly cared for.

“Great music that continues to entertain, no matter, how old we get.”

THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF THIS ALBUM EVER OFFERED FOR SALE IN RECENT TIMES

Breakfast in America is the sixth album by the band Supertramp, released in 1979. It was recorded the previous year at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles. It featured four U.S. Billboard hit singles: "The Logical Song" (No.6), "Goodbye Stranger" (No.15), "Breakfast in America" (No.62), and "Take the Long Way Home" (No.10). In the UK, "The Logical Song" and the title track were both top 10 hits, the only two the group had in their native country. Breakfast in America won two Grammy Awards in 1980, and holds an RIAA certification of quadruple platinum.
In France, the album is the biggest selling English language album of all time, and the third biggest seller overall.

This may be your only ONCE IN A LIFETIME chance to own this rare piece of rock history in this condition.

“textbook-perfect album of post-Beatles, keyboard-centred English art rock that strikes the shrewdest possible balance between quasi-symphonic classicism and rock & roll.”

“Breakfast In America is a textbook-perfect album of post-Beatles, keyboard-centred English art rock that strikes the shrewdest possible balance between quasi-symphonic classicism and rock & roll. Whereas Supertramp's earlier LPs were bogged down by swatches of meandering, Genesis-like esoterica, the songs here are extraordinarily melodic and concisely structured, reflecting these musicians' saturation in American pop since their move to Los Angeles in 1977.
Supertramp's major problem is an increasing dichotomy between their rhapsodic aural style and a glib, end-of-the-empire pessimism. The music in "Gone Hollywood" is so suffused with romantic excitement that it's difficult to believe the ennui the lyrics claim: "So many creeps in Hollywood/...Ain't nothin' new in my life today." Though laced with nice, Beach Boys-style falsettos, "Goodbye Stranger," an uncharacteristically happy fantasy about endless one-night stands, seems far more honest.
But the only cut that really wrestles the dichotomy is "The Logical Song." In this small masterpiece, singer Roger Hodgson enacts an Everyman who excoriates an education that preaches categorical jargon instead of knowledge and sensitivity. "And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical," he declaims, reeling off three- and four-syllable assonances with a schoolboy's tongue in cheek worthy of Ray Davies and the Kinks. Flamenco flourishes and a hot sax break help deflate the tune's self-pity with a wonderfully wry humour.
The next "logical" thing for these guys to do with their awesome technique is to turn it more toward this sort of ironic drollery. Then Supertramp might become not only the best-sounding art-rock band in existence, but one of the most interesting.” – Stephen Holden, Rolling Stone, 14-6-79.

A fantastic time warp example of this rarity in amazing condition, a true investment grade item - get it while you can!

AND IT MUST SELL IN THIS ONCE ONLY AUCTION

You can read more about this album HERE and all over the web.

I pack my records professionally in stiff corrugated cruciform record boxes leaving the Vinyl (housed in anti-static bags) outside the Sleeve.

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