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Fantastic Sid Vicious LP

SID VICIOUS Sid Sings 1981 Japanese 11-track vinyl LP  including Sid's unique take on My Way, along with versions of  Johnny Thunders' Born To Lose and The Stooges' I Wanna Be  Your Dog, picture sleeve with Japanese text biography/lyric  insert and obi-strip VIP-6987

Original Blur LP

BLUR Parklife Original 1994 UK 16-track vinyl LP with  'A1/B1' matrices, including the hit singles Girls & Boys, End Of  A Century and the classic Parklife featuring Phil Daniels,  picture sleeve plus picture inner showing photographs of  original chord & lyric sheets. Both sleeve and vinyl are in  near mint condition - a wonderful copy! FOODLP10

Rare Ringo Starr LP

RINGO STARR / VARIOUS Scouse The Mouse Super rare 1978  UK original 15-track LP featuring guests including Donald  Pleasence, Adam Faith and Barbara Dickson, complete with  unused double sided painting competition insert, custom  stickered picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just the smallest  trac of storage wear & the vinyl remains in fantastic near 'as  new' condition with matching uncreased & unused colouring  competition insert - hard to find complete & especially hard to  find in thisspectacular condition!

From the Editor: this week's Record Collector Newsletter

If you want the full, unedited version of the R.C. Weekly Newsletter in your mailbox every week, then contact [email protected]

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New issue of Record Collector hits the shops today or tomorrow: Pink Floyd on the front... I saw that the Invictus Games put on a huge gig for its closing ceremony on Sunday. The event is for disabled ex-service personnel and is a tribute to their fortitude. Clearly they have suffered a lot and have come through it stronger. So why should they have to endure some bands at the end of it? I've got nothing against Foo Fighters – the band Nirvana could have been, if they'd taken happier drugs – and I'm obliged to be nice about Ryan Adams because I sit next to one of the world's No 1 collectors of his records (a more complex venture than the uninitiated would imagine, with all manner of obscure releases emanating from his bolt hole in North Oh Carolina). But yunno, James Blunt? I know Mr Blunt served, but my dad was in the Navy and I wouldn't want anyone to have had to sit through him singing about the farmer with a sow, a song he used to specialise in, complete with sound effects. A more imaginative choice for the closing ceremony would have been artists associated with the Invictus label: Chairmen Of The Board, The 8th Day perhaps, and the wonderful Scherrie Payne, if you want something with that singer-and-piano-type vibe with a serious lyric that you might not have fully absorbed from The Supremes' version. Now that would have made for a distinctive final party. And anyway, aren't the achievements of these remarkable human beings enough? Do we have to add bands at the end of everything?

Grumble over. As you can probably tell, I am going through a bit of a soul music period at present, with recent purchases that include Marvin Gaye & His Girls; The Marvelettes' In Full Bloom, a couple of albums by James Brown, plus a version of La la Means I Love You by The UFOs which needs to be about three minutes longer than it is. This music is a bottomless pit: there's no chance of my collecting all the UK Motown albums, because I don't have that long left to live or the cash to fund such a lunatic pursuit; I long ago abandoned gathering all James Brown's works although I got some way into his US catalogue so maybe I ought to have carried on; I don't know that I'm actually collecting any soul artist at all, unless you count De La Soul. What I am doing, however, is buying what I like and enjoying it when I do. Which is really what record buying ought to be about – but frequently isn't.

By now you should be in possession of the new RC, details of which are below. We are grafting hard to create the next one, which features a big piece about debut albums; there's also an interview with Frankie Valli, that man who walked the thin line between R&B and pop with some aplomb; you'll also find a story about Chicago House rarities, and something about the Aphex Twin, which at least proves that we do notice that music didn't end in 1990. I interviewed Aphex many years ago, and he talked to me about making buzzing noises by touching audio cables and turning this into music. In that case my hi-fi is a musician, because it's buzzing. Anyone know how to stop a Garrard 4HF from rumbling?

Thank you for reading RC and this newsletter; it's much appreciated. Should you be voting in the Scottish election, I hope the outcome works for you when the dust settles.

Best wishes,

Ian McCann, Editor (25 per cent Scot; 100 per cent undecided)

 

Amazing - Jimi Hendrix Double LP

JIMI HENDRIX Electric Ladyland (Rare 1970 UK second issue of the classic 1968 16-track double LP, fully laminated Ernest J. Day gatefold picture sleeve with smaller internal pictures of Mitch & Noel & no additional upside down catalogue numbers on the labels. The sleeve shows only faint signs of edge & ring wear; the colours are bright and unfaded, the spine and edges intact. The labels are clean with sharp silver print, and both discs look barely played - A fantastic copy of this masterpiece!)

Future Investment - AC / DC Autographed Poster

AC/DC Stiff Upper Lip - Autographed (Super rare EMI UK promotional only year 2000 instore poster which has been AUTOGRAPHED by Malcolm, Angus, Brian, Phil and Cliff! Measuring 24" x 36", this very cool poster has been signed in gold and silvermarker pen. Although there is some creasing to the left side and a small 1" tear to the lower right edge, this has evaded any kind of store use and is free of pinholes. A truly fabulous poster, very desirable, and professional framing would ironout these creases and render the tear invisible)

Rare, Vintage 1970 Jimi Hendrix LP for collectors & investors

Electric Ladyland

Rare 1970 UK second issue of the classic 1968 16-track double LP, fully laminated Ernest J. Day gatefold picture sleeve with smaller internal pictures of Mitch & Noel & no additional upside down catalogue numbers on the labels. 

Hard To Find - Faust UK Clear Vinyl LP

FAUST Faust (Rare 1971 UK 3-track Clear Vinyl LP, pressed in Germany for the UK market, the debut album by the legendary Krautrock group, housed in a transparent PVC picture sleeve with an X-ray of a human fist silkscreen printed upon it & a transparent plastic lyric insert sheet printed in red. The sleeve shows only the lightest signs of storage wear & the vinyl looks barely played, with just a tiny spot of tea-staining creeping in at one edge - A wonderful copy in much better condition than usually found these days!)

Amazing - The Beatles Double Vinyl LP

THE BEATLES The Beatles (1968 Apple 30-track stereo double vinyl LP with 'Sold in UK' label text, fully laminated, internal flipback, top opening, individually numbered, embossed gatefold sleeve with black inners, complete with large fold outlyric poster and four glossy 11" x 8" photos PCS7067-8) 
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Rare Oasis Live At The Tower Litho print

Rare and original 1996 individually numbered out of 500 US lithograph poster.

Printed to very thick stock paper, this is numbered in pencil to the lower left corner and was produced to publicise the Gig at the Tower Theater, Philadelphia, USA on the 9th March 1996. In slightly sepia-tint style, the print depicts a Queen Elizabeth lookalike with an OASIS sash accompanied by a mock royal crest which states 'By Appointment to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II #1 Rock Merchants OASIS Ltd, Manchester'. Brilliant, rare, worthy of framing) A fantastic item that would look stunning framed. Unlikely to see another copy again - Awesome!!!

 

Extremely Rare Investment Collectable - Kate Bush Photobook

KATE BUSH Cathy (Extremely rare 1986 UK 7" x 10" high quality hessian bound hardback photobook by John Carder Bush - Kate's brother - featuring a superb selection of previously unpublished black & white photographs of Kate as a child around eight years old. Each photo is superbly mounted with the prior pages die cut with annotations from John about the picture & Kate at the time. The whole is protected by an outer peach card slipcase - Incredible!) 
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Investment grade collectables - Queen Limited Edition Box Set

QUEEN Ultimate Queen (Official 1995 UK Parlophone limited edition box set with 20 litho picture printed Gold CD albums which are exclusive to this box set. Housed a within deluxe glazed and numbered box with moving Freddie hologram on the front. Also included is a beautiful glossy gold 16-page booklet. Complete with the original outer brown cardboard box which is individually numbered and features the Queen 'crest' logo QUEENBOX20)

Amazing - Smashing Pumpkins Triple Vinyl LP Set

SMASHING PUMPKINS Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Rare UK limited edition 30-track triple vinyl LP with picture labels, featuring Tonight, Tonight, Tales Of A Scorched Earth, 1979 and Infinite Sadness. Housed in a numbered gatefold picture sleeve with fabulous artwork and complete with 12-page illustrated lyric booklet. This album is now incredibly hard to find in this format and captures the band in one of their best periods. The sleeve shows virtually no wear and the vinyl is immaculate HUTTLP30)

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A rare collection of original Tour Itineraries

We've picked up a fabulous collection of original tour itineraries collated by an ex-music industry bod. Including some for Robert Plant, Mark Knopler, Page & Plant, Roger Waters and Robbie Williams. We've still many, many more to work through so keep checking back or get in touch and tell us which artists you're collecting.

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Rare Madonna / William Orbit - US Promo CD Set

MADONNA / WILLIAM ORBIT William Orbit (Rare official 2002 US two-disc publishing CD set to support William Orbit's publishing catalogue. Sporting day-glo green playing surfaces and featuring 43 amazing tracks produced by William Orbit, this stunning and legendary rarity includes TEN Madonna tracks, most notably the exclusive and otherwise unavailable instrumental versions of Drowned World, Amazing, Ray Of Light and Mer Girl. Also included is a double-sideddisplay disc with complete tracklistsings. Housed inside a spectacular Lucite perspex spindle casement shell, this is THE Madonna-related rarity that many wish to covet but very few will ever get to own!)

Interesting Early LP - Rolling Stones

ROLLING STONES Around And Around (1969 French issue of the 1964 12-track stereo compilation LP on the open Decca logo 'ffss' label, unique front laminated picture sleeve variant with sleeve notes in French on the back. The sleeve shows only a little light shelfwear & the vinyl remains in excellent condition with just a few light surface scuffs to show for its forty years! 258.059B)

Rare Promo - Duran Duran US CD

DURAN DURAN Too Much Information - Churban Mixes (Rare 1993 US 4-track promotional mix CD including Trance Mix, 4:30am Twirl Mix, Club 2 Mix and Unplugged Mix, custom back insert, housed in a custom stickered case. Despite the case being broken at one corner of the hinge this copy is otherwise near mint! DPRO79256)

Rare Meet The Beatles Japanese Promotional Poster

THE BEATLES Meet The Beatles

Fabulous official 2014 Universal Japan promotional-only instore poster for the Japan Box set released on 25th June 2014. Measuring 20" x 28.5", this rare poster is printed to smooth silk paper and remains brand new having never made it to any store... It has no pinholes, no tears, no creases, no rips and is not an ex-display example. Genuinely unused. This promo poster would look stunning once framed and displayed. Sugoi!.

Future Collectable Vinyl & CD Box by Oasis - out 29th Sept.

OASIS (What's The Story) Morning Glory?

2014 UK Super Deluxe Limited Edition Multi-Format Box Set comprising three CDs featuring the digitally remastered album as well as a collection of b-sides, unreleased demos, out-takes and live recordings, a heavyweight vinyl double LP, a bonus vinyl 12" including Cum On Feel The Noise and Champagne Supernova (Lynch Mob Remix) and a bonus vinyl 7" including demo versions of Hello and She's Electric, along with a Cassette replica of the originalpromotional copy. All Seven discs are held in their individual sleeves and are housed together within a deluxe box [with magnetic closure lid] complete with a stunning 56 page hard backed coffee table book with exclusive photographs, a 12" print, Roll With It cigarette papers and a set of three postcards with exclusive images from the period!

Order your copy now for delivery after release - out on the 29th September

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