The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed - Rare 1967 UK First Issue 1W/1W Matrix

	£		26
	$		34

Artist & Title: The Moody Blues – Days Of Future Passed

Days Of Future Passed: Rare 1967 UK first issue 7-track stereo vinyl LP with 'Deramic Sound System' labels, including Nights In White Satin with The London Festival Orchestra conducted by Peter Knight. The front laminated picture sleeve shows very little sign of its 46 years and the vinyl remains excellent for its age - a wonderful copy!
In 1978 the album was remixed, with significant changes, because of deterioration of the master tapes. This original 1967 stereo mix used here, which is generally considered superior by fans, has never seen a CD release. All CD versions, even remasters, use the later mix. The only way you can hear the original is on this LP.
Highly desirable for its first press matrices (1W/1W) and increasingly hard to find in even reasonable condition, this copy is in EX/EX condition. And as these first UK pressings come up so infrequently in this condition this could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to add this extreme rarity to your collection at an extremely advantageous price.

Catalogue Number: Deram ?– SML 707

Release date: December 1967 (UK)

Overall Grade: EX/EX (LP/Cover)

Matrix/Runout: Side 1: ZAL 8078-1W  Side 2: ZAL 8079-1W

First version cover.
Deramic Sound System label.
? 1967
© 1967, The Decca Record Company Limited, London.
Printed in England by Clout & Baker Ltd..
Laminated with “Clarifoil” made by British Celanese Limited

This rare UK FIRST ISSUE of the Moody Blues LP that defined an entire genre is hardly ever offered for sale in this condition.

“one of the defining documents of the blossoming psychedelic era, and one of the most enduringly popular albums of its era.”

This is the extremely rare real thing: a GENUINE UK first issue in EX/EX condition. The record, cover and inner sleeve are all in excellent condition, without any obvious defects (the only reason I have not given the vinyl a Mint grading is because of the occasional light crackle here and there that us oldies love but younger listeners are not used to). See pics. All items are the genuine originals bought together by me in 1967 not reprints. The LP is the original UK first issue stereo LP, which was only played on top-end audiophile equipment and lovingly cared for.

Note: The first issue of Days Of Future Passed included both brown and red Deramic Sound System labels. The first issue is identified by the first version cover, first version “Deramic Sound System” label and first lacquer (matrix) numbers in the dead wax.

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

Days of Future Passed is the second album and first concept album by English rock band The Moody Blues, released in December 1967 on Deram Records. After two years performing as an R&B band, The Moody Blues were asked by their record label in September 1967 to record an adaptation of Antonín Dvo?ák's Symphony No. 9 as a stereo demonstration record. Instead, the band chose to record an orchestral song cycle about a typical working day.
Recording sessions for the album took place at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, London during May 9 to November 26, 1967. The band worked with record producer Tony Clarke, engineer Derek Varnals, and conductor Peter Knight. The album's music features psychedelic rockers, ballads by singer-songwriter and guitarist Justin Hayward, Mellotron played by keyboardist Mike Pinder, and orchestral accompaniment by the London Festival Orchestra.
Music writers cite the album as a precursor to progressive rock music. Bill Holdship of Yahoo! Music remarks that the band "created an entire genre here." Robert Christgau cites it as one of the essential albums of 1967 and finds it "closer to high-art pomp than psychedelia. But there is a sharp pop discretion to the writing and a trippy romanticism in the mirroring effect of the strings and Mike Pinder's Mellotron." Will Hermes cites the album as an essential progressive rock record and views that its use of the Mellotron, a tape replay keyboard, made it a "signature" element of the genre. All Music editor Bruce Eder calls the album "one of the defining documents of the blossoming psychedelic era, and one of the most enduringly popular albums of its era."

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

In 1978 the album was remixed because of deterioration of the master tapes. The original 1967 stereo mix has never seen an official CD release.
The ways in which the later mix departs most noticeably from the original are:
After the orchestral intro, "Dawn is a Feeling" begins more abruptly, and there is less echo on Mike Pinder's vocal on the bridge, making it more prominent.
The orchestral intro "Lunch Break" goes on about 20 seconds longer before fading out.
The bridges to "(Evening) Time to Get Away" have John Lodge singing alone; all the backing vocals on that part have been lost.
The backing vocals on "Twilight Time" are heard through the entire song instead of only coming in at strategic points.

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 and The Moody Blues 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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