Yes Going For The One 12" Black Vinyl LP 1977 Anti Japan Obi Prog Rock Vintage

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Yes Going For The One 12" Black Vinyl LP 1977 Anti Japan Obi Prog Rock Vintage

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Black vinyl LP grades visually around excellent (EX) with strong gloss and a few scattered light sleeve scuffs. No faint hairline surface marks on both sides, minor dust specks that would benefit from a gentle cleaning before play; no deep scratches, warps, cracks, or edge chips are seen and the blue Anti/Atlantic center labels are clean and fully legible with light spindle wear and no writing or added stickers. Gatefold cardboard jacket with red Japanese obi strip also grades visually around Excellent (EX) with light corner bumps, small top-edge rubs, and a few short handling creases along the spine and front surface but no seam splits, tears, or cut-outs, while the interior panels, photo/lyric insert, fold-out English lyric sheet, and plain inner sleeve remain clean, flat, and intact without writing, major stains, or heavy handling wear.

Artist: Yes.

Title: Going For The One 12-inch black vinyl LP album by progressive rock band Yes, presenting their 1977 studio recordings including the title track Going For The One, Turn Of The Century, Parallels, Wonderous Stories, and the long-form suite Awaken.

Format: 33 1/3 RPM record; Type: LP; Record size: 12-inch; audio format: stereo progressive rock album.

Label and catalog number: Anti / Atlantic Records Japanese issue on blue center labels featuring the Yes logo and stylized skyscraper artwork; catalog number P-10304A printed on the labels, spine, back cover, inner materials, and red obi strip with side identifiers P-10304A1 for Side One and P-10304A2 for Side Two plus STEREO and 33 1/3 RPM markings.

Release year and origin: 1977 Japanese pressing manufactured by Warner-Pioneer Corporation, Japan under license, with 1977 copyright text on the labels and jacket and a printed price of ¥2,500 on the obi strip.

Genre/Style: progressive rock and symphonic rock combining extended suites, shifting time signatures, and melodic songcraft from the classic Yes lineup.

Material: Vinyl; Color: black; Format: record; Features: 12-inch 33 RPM stereo Japanese import LP with gatefold cardboard sleeve, vertical red obi strip with Japanese text and logos, Japanese-language liner notes and lyrics insert, separate fold-out English lyric sheet, and English and Japanese song titles.

Case type and front cover: gatefold cardboard sleeve whose front artwork shows a bright blue sky above three modernist high-rise buildings rendered in parallel vertical lines, with a nude male figure seen from behind at the lower center facing the towers while yellow and red geometric lines arc across the scene, the Yes logo and album title Going For The One printed near the top right, and the red obi running vertically along the left edge with bold white Japanese characters and the Yes logo at the bottom.

Back cover details: rear panel continues the skyscraper motif without the figure, instead focusing on intersecting yellow and red lines crossing the buildings against the same blue sky, with song titles, production credits, and Anti / Atlantic and Warner-Pioneer logos printed in small text along the lower edge.

Spine and edges: standard-width gatefold spine printed with the Yes name, Going For The One title, catalog number P-10304A, and label identification, with outer seams sized to house one 12-inch record along with inserts.

Inner gatefold artwork: inside spread presents a panoramic color photograph of a sunset over water with a silhouetted tree at left across one panel, while the opposite panel carries a collage of band photographs connected by diagonal graphic lines with the Yes logo and track listing printed in the upper right, maintaining the visual link to the exterior cover design.

Inner sleeves/inlay: package includes a large white-and-gray insert featuring a band portrait of Yes on one side with English and Japanese printing, while the reverse side carries extensive Japanese-language notes and song information; an additional tan fold-out lyric sheet reprints the complete song lyrics and detailed credits in English with matching line artwork; a plain inner sleeve or poly sleeve is supplied to store and protect the record.

Track listing Side One: Going For The One (5:30); Turn Of The Century (7:58); Parallels (5:52).

Track listing Side Two: Wonderous Stories (3:45); Awaken (15:38).

Personnel and production: performances by the classic Yes lineup featuring Jon Anderson on vocals, Steve Howe on guitars, Chris Squire on bass, Rick Wakeman on keyboards, and Alan White on drums and percussion, with arrangements and production credited to Yes and recording from the mid-1970s progressive rock era.

Additional notes: this Japanese gatefold edition of Going For The One highlights the band's late-1970s return to concise yet intricate progressive rock, pairing the hit single Wonderous Stories with the expansive Awaken and presented here in a collectible import package with obi and bilingual inserts for fans of classic Yes vinyl.

Barcode and identifiers: pre-barcode Anti / Atlantic Japanese issue; identifiers include catalog number P-10304A on spine, jacket, labels, obi, and inserts, side designations P-10304A1 and P-10304A2 on the labels, STEREO and 33 1/3 RPM markings, Side One and Side Two text, Warner-Pioneer manufacturing credits, and a printed price box showing ¥2,500.

Keywords: Yes Going For The One P-10304A 12-inch black vinyl LP record 33 RPM 1977 Anti Atlantic Japan import progressive rock album.

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