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Wednesday's Top Three including Sigur Ros, Pink Floyd & Magna Carta

SIGUR ROS Takk 2005 UK 11-track advance promotional CD album [written, performed by the band & co-produced with Ken Thomas] justifying every amazing claim ever laid at this exceptional band's door, housed in a custom card wallet picture sleeve TAKK01

PINK FLOYD Animals 1977 Philippines red label issue 5-track vinyl LP with licensed to Blackgold Records Corporation Philippines by CBS/Sony Inc. [Tokyo, Japan] label credits. Presented in a single-pocket card picture sleeve.

 MAGNA CARTA Seasons (Rare 1970 UK very first issue 15-track vinyl LP on the large Vertigo 'swirl' label, produced by Gus Dudgeon & featuring an all-star supporting cast of musicians including Rick Wakeman, Tim Renwick, Davy Johnstone & Tony Visconti, gatefold matt picture sleeve with die-cut 'swirl' inner.

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From The Viscount Of Vinyl, The Reverand Of Records And The Mayor Of Flipping Cool Memorabilia Comes This Week's Edition Of: DICK'S PICKS!

This week, we are proud to present a stunning set of Barney Bubbles artwork posters for the mighty Hawkwind. These incredible posters were available either directly from the artist or at Hawkwind gigs and were never available for general retail sale. Among the set we have the Dragon Commando and the sublime Aura Rhanes! These will not hang about (pun unashamedly intended) so fly on over to our Barney Bubbles catalogue or take a peek at our Hawkwind catalogue to see the latest from this epic collection!

Tuesday's Top Three Aerosmith, Duran Duran & Lenny Kravitz

  AEROSMITH Get A Grip Rare official US In-house special commemorative award issued for 10 MILLION worldwide sales of the album. Presented by Aerosmith, the award features a black & white 'furry' map of the world with FIVE overlapping CD's down each side with a dedication plaque on the top of the left overlapping CD's.

DURAN DURAN New Moon On Monday Superb October 1985 US 'American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers' award, actually presented to the guitarist Andy Taylor and one of only 6 copies made.

LENNY KRAVITZ 5 Official US RIAA Certified US DOUBLE PLATINUM Award issued to commemorate sales in excess of 2,000,000 copies of the Virgin Records CD and cassette. A unique pictorial format presented as a 20" high shaped perspex number '5' with live shot of Lenny.

24-Karat Gold Tuesday! More selections from the mega Elvis collection.

Elvis Is Back! 1997 US DCC 12-track 24ct GOLD CD audiophile issue of the 1960 album digitally remastered by Steve Hoffman, glossy picture sleeve booklet. . The die-cut card picture slipcase does have some noticeable edgewear and storage marks, but we have included it as a bonus, as this item it is so difficult to find complete - a great opportunity to own this Elvis collectable.

 

 

It's Now Or Never - Best Of Elvis Presley  Rare 1996 German 30-track 24-karat GOLD compilation CD album, picture sleeve.

 

 

 

Devil In Disguise - Best Of Elvis Presley II (Rare 2000 German 30-track 24-karat GOLD compilation CD album, picture sleeve

Monday's Top Three including Maynard Ferguson, Hot Tuna & Phineas Newborn Jr.

  MAYNARD FERGUSON Maynard Ferguson's Hollywood Party 1956 US second issue of the 1954 2-track LP, first issued on 10", also featuring Shelly Manne, Curtis Counce, Bob Cooper, Bob Gordon & Bud Shank, pasted picture sleeve.

PHINEAS NEWBORN JR. Here Is Phineas 1958 US first stereo issue 8-track deep groove vinyl LP on the green Atlantic label, also featuring Oscar Pettiford on bass, Kenny Clarke on drums & Calvin Newborn on guitar, pasted laminate picture sleeve with deletion drill-hole top left.

HOT TUNA Hot Tuna Original 1971 Japanese only 7-track RCA white title label promo sample LP, internal pasted gatefold picture with integral Japanese tracklisting/biography text insert.

Saturday's Top Three Including Michael Jackson, Oliver Nelson, The Who

 MICHAEL JACKSON Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough 1979 UK 7" vinyl single with intact four prong centre, also includes 'I Can't Help It', Epic company die-cut paper sleeve.

 

 

OLIVER NELSON In Tokyo Limited edition 1976 Japanese-only 10-track Master Sonic audiophile LP, recorded live in Tokyo in 1969, housed in a unique picture sleeve with Japanese insert & obi. 

 THE WHO Pictures Of Lily Extremely rare original 1967 UK 11" x 16" instore black & white display poster for the single release, featuring eight postcard sized representations of Victorian erotica [including one of a completely unadorned ladies bottom - oo-er!], the final segment being an advert for the single in suitably styled text. 

Friday's Top Three Including Hawkwind, Genesis, Visage

 HAWKWIND Autumn 1981 Tour Programme (1981 UK 20-page 13" x 9½" tour programme in the classic Hawkwind style with full colour photographs, information on the band members, discography, merchandising & tour dates. This copy has been nicelyAUTOGRAPHED on the 'Earth Visitors Passport' page by DAVE BROCK, HARVEY BAINBRIDGE, HUW LLOYD-LANGTON & MARTIN GRIFFIN!)

GENESISs The Story Of Genesis (Rare 1978 Japanese-only pink large 'Madhatter' label 13-track double vinyl LP, featuring a unique compilation of Gabriel & post-Gabriel era tracks, gatefold picture sleeve complete with lyric/photo booklet, fold-out Japanese/lyric insert & purple obi-strip. 

 VISAGE Dreamer I Know (2013 UK 9-track CD maxi single, including the Extended Version, remixes by Max Essa, Mick Macneil & the Sare Havlicek Kong Mix, plus the b-side 'Digital Age', with picture sleeve of Steve Strange holding his face up BZCR013)

991.com brings you excerpts from the current issue of the R.C. Weekly Newsletter

991.com brings you excerpts from this week's R.C. Weekly Newsletter. If you want to receive the full unedited version, please contact David Harvey and mention 991!

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This is a newsletter, so let’s start with the big news of the week: The Baby. It’s great of lovely Kate and that nice fella she married to name it after Minneapolis’ little purple funk legend. That’s very modern and rock’n’roll. Also on our rolling 24-hour news feed, Beyoncé got her hair caught in a fan. What was she doing so close to him? Which part of the fan did her hair get stuck in? Does Jay-Zeeeee know about this? We should be told. But no blame is attached to Beyoncé – it’s a fan that’s attached to her. Anyway, disasters like this happen in showbiz. When RC was sponsoring the “That’s never VG-, pal, it’s no more than G+” stage at the Maydup Festival Of Unplayable Music in 2011, the giant inflatable we’d commissioned turned up late, so we had to blow it up right on showtime. Turned out it was a 30ft-high Wild Ride extra-strong prophylactic. Apparently the inflatables company had misunderstood when we said we wanted something to illustrate ringwear. It got quite embarrassing when the Rare Record Price Guide’s Ian Shirley kept shinning up it while singing electropop hits. We couldn’t figure out how he managed it after it had been sprayed with 1,700 litres of Luv U Long Time lubricating jelly; I think he was particularly determined because we told him there was a copy of Chrome’s Box Set at the top. His clothes got quite messed up, but at least he hasn’t had to grease his pushbike since.

Our Pink Floyd-fronted issue is selling well, and nearly 32,000 people have given it the thumbs up on the band’s fine Facebook site. Feedback has been fab so far, and the same applies to The Pretty Things story, in which they challenge the Stones to one last rock’n’roll shootout. I know who my money would be on and it wouldn’t be the stadium-filling megaband. You’ll be able to find out why when you see the Pretties at our psych all-dayer on August 10 at the Borderline. Also in the current RC is a piece about The Doors on TV in the UK in 1968, a review of recent Beatles books, and an obituary of one of the truly great voices of soul music, whose excellent official online tribute can be found here.

It’s been scorching in London and all that heat makes young man’s thoughts turn to lust. Luckily I’m not a young man, so I don’t have to bother about that; I can get on with thinking about records. Bobby Womack and Gabor Szabo’s Breezin’ and Fred Wesley’s Sportin’ Life have both been annoying my neighbours of late; both are ancient, so it’s good to hear something more recent which holds that retro sunny vibe. I’ve mentioned the talented Maddy Carty in the newsletter before; it’s really good to hear her Get It Right on record. It’s out on 7” vinyl in a couple of weeks…

In the meantime we’ve been working on the next issue. Highlights include a brilliant story about Radiohead and an in-depth interview with The Beach Boys, including Brian Wilson. More details closer to the date, but I promise it’s going to be another goodie (bet you were expecting Bill Oddie).

Thank you for reading this – and reading RC. Have a great week,

Best wishes

Ian McCann, Editor Record Collector

IN THE CURRENT ISSUE

Nick Mason on Pink Floyd's early demos 

Northern soul round-up

Post-grunge rockers Alice In Chains

The Pretty Things talk about the good times

Goth/punk pioneers UK Decay return

Scotland's progsters Clouds

70s Neolithic metal, with Zior

Norman Watt-Roy on Dury service

Plus Beatles books, investigating sound, 80s Indie box set, Chic, John Denver, Burt Bacharach, Philly Hip-Hop, The Doors on TV...and much more

 

Thursday's Top Three Including The Shocking Blue, Hilary Duff, Madonna

 THE SHOCKING BLUE Perfect Collection Original 1972 Japanese only 24-track double LP, complete with lyric insert and presented in a unique textured gatefold picture sleeve with corner obi-strip.

HILARY DUFF With Love (2007 Japanese promotional-only CD produced to promote the release of the first single - plays the same track three times, complete with a custom picture insert featuring release details with all text in Japanese and still sealed AVCS-12097)

 MADONNA True Blue - Super Club Mixes (1986 Japanese Sire label 5-track 12" vinyl EP featuring The Color Mix, Everybody - Dub and Extended Versions, Papa Don't Preach - Extended Remix and Live To Tell - Instrumental, picture sleeve complete with Japanese text biography/lyric insert and bronze discography obi-strip! P-6244)

Vinyl helps boost independent record shop sales

There’s less than 300 of them left but, despite facing heavy competition from digital sales, large high street chains and internet piracy, independent record shops have enjoyed a boost in the first half of 2013.

According to a report by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA), sales have gone up by 44 per cent compared to the same period last year.

The statistics also reveal the difference in purchasing habits when compared to the rest of the recorded music market. Independent shops only account for 3.2 per cent of all album sales, but during the period they were responsible for more than half of all the vinyl purchases - with approximately one in seven album purchases from an independent record shop being on vinyl.

According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, sales of vinyl are in rude health, with 12 million being sold last year – four times that of 2006.

The type of music being sold in independent shops also differs from that of stores such as Amazon and HMV. David Bowie’s The Next Day is currently the biggest-selling album for independent shops – but is only 15th overall. Whereas the second biggest is Tomorrow’s Harvest by Boards of Canada, which is a mere 218th when factoring in sales across the whole market.

Read the full article at The Telegraph.

Wednesday's Top Three Including Abba, Jimi Hendrix, Muse.

 ABBA The Singles - The First Ten Years 1982 UK 'A Special Limited Edition Commemorative Set' 23-track Picture Disc 2-LP box set, complete with 12-page chronology/discography booklet, replica 'Eurovision Song Contest' ticket from BrightonDome on 6 April 1974 & 24" x 24" glossy full colour poster. Housed in a black 12" x 12" black textured box with silver embossed titles.

JIMI HENDRIX Smash Hits Rare early 70s Japanese issue of the 1969 12-track stereo compilation LP, pressed by Nippon Grammophon, unique picture sleeve featuring the classic fish eye lens picture by Karl Ferris on the front with the tracklisting & lyrics on the back.

  MUSE Muscle Museum (FULLY AUTOGRAPHED 1999 UK limited edition 7" single pressed on Clear Vinyl, also including Minimum. The picture sleeve has been boldly signed in black felt pen across the front by Matt, Chris and Dom!MUSH66S) 

This Next Segment Is Presented In Panormaic Hippyvision, So Firmly Attach Kaleidoscopes To Each Retina Now: Here Comes This Week's DICK'S PICKS!

FANTASY Paint A Picture

Rare original 1973 UK 10-track LP, the debut album from the quintessentially English progressive rock group who started at the Chapel Farm, a farmhouse near Gravesend in Kent. The gatefold picture sleeve is strictly graded VG+/EX-, with some minor shelfwear mostly on the edges & spine but with no rips of tears. The vinyl is in fantastic 'near as new' condition with very little signs of play, the only sign that it has been played are a couple of spindle marks on the labels otherwise in outstanding condition. A very respectable copy of this now hard to find 40 year old pressing, and the first copy we have ever seen!

More selections from the monster Elvis collection! Danish Fan Club CDs

 I Was The One Danish 5-track mono compilation CD produced for the official Elvis Presley Fan Club of Norway, features tracks recorded in RCA Studios, New York on 11th/12th January 1956 - I Got A Woman, Heartbreak Hotel, Money Honey, I'm Counting On You and I Was The One. Custom card picture sleeve.

 

 

Stranger In My Own Home Town 2000 Danish promotional 5-track picture disc CD produced for the official Elvis Presley Fan Club of Denmark, features live/rehearsal recordings of Reconsider Baby, My Babe, Stranger In My Own Hometown, Baby What You Want Me To Do and Steamroller Blues. Housed in a fold-out digipak picture sleeve.

 

 

 An Afternoon At The Hilton 1999 Danish promotional interview picture disc CD produced for the official Elvis Presley fan club of Denmark, features the complete interview that Elvis gave in the Mercury Ballroom of the New York Hilton Hotel on 9th June 1972. Total running time 20:47.

Tuesday's Top Three Including Metallica, Rolling Stones, Iron Maiden

 METALLICA St. Anger 2006 issue Japanese limited edition 11-track CD album [original released in 2003], includes the hits 'St. Anger', 'Some Kind Of Monster' & 'Unnamed Feeling', mini-LP style gatefold card picture sleeve with replica card lyric insert, Japanese lyric booklet & obi-strip.

ROLLING STONES Sticky Fingers (Extremely rare 1971 Japanese first issue 10-track LP, complete with credits inner, lyric insert, Andy Warhol designed sleeve with working 'YKK' Zipper & the impossibly rare 'Rock Age' obi-strip, which is very collectable in its own right. 

 IRON MAIDEN Ed Hunter Demo (Rare 1999 UK promotional PICTURE DISC CD-ROM sampler, features 5 'Maiden Top 20' tracks and the PC CD-Rom game demo, housed in a custom card wallet picture sleeve featuring the superb CGI 'Eddie' used on actual release with 'Demo' text across the middle! EDHUNTER666)

Monday's Top Three Including Tubby Hayes, John Lennon & The Beatles

 TUBBY HAYES & THE ALL-STARS Return Visit! Rare 1963 UK first press 5-track mono vinyl LP on the 'rough' textured black & silver Fontana label, recorded live in New York on the 23rd of June, 1962.

JOHN LENNON A Spaniard In The Works 1965 UK First Edition of the 95-page hardback book giving a second slice of John's Joycean verse & drawings. This copy is in superb condition with little sign of being over forty five years old.

THE BEATLES Long Tall Sally (1964 UK first press 4-track 7" mono EP, the only one to contain exclusively non album or single tracks, with intact four prong centre and 'Parlophone Co', 'Recording First Published' & 'Sold In The UK' label text.

991.com's Buying Day Success

Saturday was a great success with many sellers of Vinyl Records & CDs turning up with their wares here at the 991.com offices. We picked up some unexpected rarities along the way and you'll see these being added to the site imminently.

BIG thanks to our buying team who made it all happen.

Keep an eye on our blog - we'll announce the next date very soon!

 

 

 

 

991.com brings you excerpts from the current issue of the R.C. Weekly Newsletter

991.com brings you excerpts from this week's R.C. Weekly Newsletter.  If you want to receive the full version please contact David Harvey and mention 991.com

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I shouldn’t moan… but I like it. It’s too hot in London right now. All my records are looking at me, begging for a spell in the fridge. But I’ve got one of those little desktop machines, only fit to keep a couple of cans of cider chilly, so I’m having to make some difficult choices. My Ice Cube albums are already cool; anything on Eddy Grant’s label (of which I’ve got hundreds, honest) can also fend for itself. But Hot Butter is going rancid and milk is curdling in the udders of Atom Heart Mother. It may be time to escape the weather, but the best way to beat the heat is to soar above it, so I’ve put my name down for a Virgin Galactic Space Flight. To be honest, it’s a bit out of my price range at about $200,000, so I’ve chosen the budget option, another Virgin spacecraft. On the outside is a sticker that says “Special price: 50p” (or was that something else cheesy?) so I don’t feel very confident that the thing will fly. But you get what you pay for. Unless you’re buying albums from the US, where you pay £3 for the album and more than a tenner postage…

The new edition of the magazine hits the shops today – yes! – and boasts Syd-era Pink Floyd on the front, plus a slightly Reservoir Dogs pic of The Pretty Things, who are gunning for their local rivals, the Stones; you’ll also find fab features about Northern soul, Clouds, Zior, UK Decay, Norman Watt-Roy and Alice In Chains. Plus The Doors on Granada TV remembered, the RRPG’s Ian Shirley going ape for some rare jazz albums and a single with a semi-naked lady on the front, Beatles books reviewed, and I ask how we should be listening to music in 2013. With our ears, I know, but maybe we ought to use our brains too…

Really looking forward to our superinternational psych all-dayer at London’s Borderline in the company of Fruits De Mer on August 10. The aforementioned Pretty Things, Stay, The Luck Of Eden Hall, Jack Ellister, and Sendelica will be bringing you aural excitement. The first 150 folk through the door get a free goodie bag, full of… goodies an’ stuff. Bring your ears and imagination, you’ll have a fantastic time.

We’re still getting letters about our 50s story that was on the cover of RC 416; four of them are in the issue that’s out today, I’ll print more in the next issue. While some of them are critical, there’s also a sense of excitement about the era in all of these letters, the sort of feeling that isn’t stirred up by some of the 60s-oriented features we do. Are the 50s “back”, or did they never go away?

Thank you for reading this and supporting RC.

Have a great week,

Ian McCann, Editor Record Collector

Friday's Top Three including Paul McCartney, Fantasy & Dusty Springfield

PAUL & LINDA MCCARTNEY Collection of Billboard Hoardings nice collection of twelve period news hoardings [as displayed on news stands] relating to Paul & Linda McCartney.

FANTASY Paint A Picture  Rare original 1973 UK 10-track LP, the debut album from the quintessentially English progressive rock group who started at the Chapel Farm, a farmhouse near Gravesend in Kent.

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD Dusty In Memphis 1968 UK first press 11-track stereo LP, fully laminated picture sleeve with extensive liner notes on the reverse cover by Stanley Booth.

Thursday's Top Three including Depeche Mode, Kenny Dorham & Iron Maiden

DEPECHE MODE Remixes 2: 81-11 2011 UK Deluxe Edition 37-track 6-LP vinyl set, housed in a SEALED and NUMBERED 13" box- 'Remixes 2: 81-11' is an inspiring collection of new and classic mixes of material covering their entire career

KENNY DORHAM Afro-Cuban 2012 Japanese limited edition Disk Union exclusive audiophile LP remastered from the original analogue mono tapes of the classic 1955 7-track release, pressed onto high quality 200gm vinyl.

IRON MAIDEN Iron Maiden 2012 issue UK 8-track vinyl PICTURE DISC released as part of a series of special edition picture discs to commemorate their current Maiden England tour.