CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG "Deja Vu" UK 1st PRESS

	£		23
	$		30

CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG "Deja Vu" UK 1st PRESS!!
Atlantic Red/Plum, Textured Cover, OUTSTANDING AUDIO!!!


CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG
Deja Vu

HERE WE HAVE A SUPERB!!! UK ATLANTIC (2401 001) VERY FIRST PRESSING!!! (March 11th, 1970) OF CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG'S OUTSTANDING "Deja Vu" LP IN ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT CONDITION - VERY HARD TO FIND LIKE THIS!!!
PRESSED ON QUALITY VINYL WHICH DELIVERS ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING, CRYSTAL CLEAR AND VERY SHARP AUDIO, THE LP HAS THE FIRST ISSUE ATLANTIC RED/PLUM LABELS WITH THE FIRST PRESS 2401001* Av1 / 2401001 Bv1 MATRICES!!! AND IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL TEXTURED, MATTE, GATEFOLD COVER WITH 'PASTED ON' PHOTO "Printed and made by the E. J. Day Group, London and Bedford" WHICH IS ALSO IN GREAT CONDITION!!!
A FANTASTIC LP AND MASSIVELLY RARE AS BOTH A FIRST PRESSING AND IN SUCH WONDERFUL CONDITION!!

One of the most hotly awaited second albums in history -- right up there with those by the Beatles and the Band -- Déjà Vu lived up to its expectations and rose to number one on the charts. Those achievements are all the more astonishing given the fact that the group barely held together through the estimated 800 hours it took to record Déjà Vu and scarcely functioned as a group for most of that time. Déjà Vu worked as an album, a product of four potent musical talents who were all ascending to the top of their game coupled with some very skilled production, engineering, and editing. There were also some obvious virtues in evidence -- the addition of Neil Young to the Crosby, Stills & Nash lineup added to the level of virtuosity, with Young and Stephen Stills rising to new levels of complexity and volume on their guitars. Young's presence also ratcheted up the range of available voices one notch and added a uniquely idiosyncratic songwriter to the fold, though most of Young's contributions in this area were confined to the second side of the LP. Most of the music, apart from the quartet's version of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock," was done as individual sessions by each of the members when they turned up (which was seldom together), contributing whatever was needed that could be agreed upon. "Carry On" worked as the album's opener when Stills "sacrificed" another copyright, "Questions," which comprised the second half of the track and made it more substantial. "Woodstock" and "Carry On" represented the group as a whole, while the rest of the record was a showcase for the individual members. David Crosby's "Almost Cut My Hair" was a piece of high-energy hippie-era paranoia not too far removed in subject from the Byrds' "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man," only angrier in mood and texture (especially amid the pumping organ and slashing guitars); the title track, also by Crosby, took 100 hours to work out and was a better-received successor to such experimental works as "Mind Gardens," out of his earlier career with the Byrds, showing his occasional abandonment of a rock beat, or any fixed rhythm at all, in favor of washing over the listener with tones and moods. "Teach Your Children," the major hit off the album, was a reflection of the hippie-era idealism that still filled Graham Nash's life, while "Our House" was his stylistic paean to the late-era Beatles and "4+20" was a gorgeous Stephen Stills blues excursion that was a precursor to the material he would explore on the solo album that followed. And then there were Neil Young's pieces, the exquisitely harmonized "Helpless" (which took many hours to get to the slow version finally used) and the roaring country-ish rockers that ended side two, which underwent a lot of tinkering by Young -- even his seeming throwaway finale, "Everybody I Love You," was a bone thrown to longtime fans as perhaps the greatest Buffalo Springfield song that they didn't record. All of this variety made Déjà Vu a rich musical banquet for the most serious and personal listeners, while mass audiences reveled in the glorious harmonies and the thundering electric guitars, which were presented in even more dramatic and expansive fashion on the tour that followed.


Track Listing:
Side 1: Carry On / Teach Your Children / Almost Cut My Hair / Helpless / Woodstock
Side 2: Deja Vu / Our House / 4+20 / Country Girl / Everybody I Love You

LABELS: The FIRST ISSUE, RED/PLUM labels are in SUPERB condition - CLEAN, BRIGHT and UNMARKED with just some spindle traces evident when angled under a bright light!!!!
VINYL Visual: The vinyl lies perfectly flat on the turntable and both surfaces have their original DEEP, GLOSSY SHEEN. There are a couple of superficial light marks but these have absolutely NO audio consequence WHATSOEVER!!
VINYL Audio: The audio is absolutely OUTSTANDING!! - CRYSTAL CLEAR, STRONG, VIBRANT SOUND!! There are NO scratches, NO sticks, NO jumps, NO clicks/pops and barely ANY surface noise (hardly any AT ALL really!!!) which is very, VERY rare, especially for a first pressing!!! AMAZING!! The sound quality is simply SUPERB!!! with NO groove-wear and NO distortion!!!! This album has NOT been overplayed or in fact, played that much AT ALL!! A REALLY BEAUTIFUL LP IN SUPERB CONDITION!!!! This must be graded an EXCELLENT+ for audio!!!! NOT over-graded in ANY way as I use STRICT RECORD COLLECTOR grading standards!!!
SLEEVE: The 1st issue TEXTURED gatefold cover with it's pasted on photo is in VERY, VERY NICE condition!! This sleeve is incredibly prone to wear and even though this one does have the usual surface rubbing it still rates as one of the BEST EXAMPLES of this sleeve I have seen!! There is only minimal edge/spine wear and all the text on the spine (just the title) is still SHARP and CLEAR!! The inside is BEAUTIFULLY CLEAN and CRISP!! A very, very nice copy indeed!!!

PLEASE NOTE: THE SPOTS YOU CAN SEE ON THE VINYL IN THE PICTURES BELOW ARE NOT ON THE LP!!!!!! THEY ARE REFLECTIONS OF RAINDROPS ON THE WINDOWPANE!!!!! IT'S A VERY WET AND OVERCAST DAY TODAY HERE IN LONDON AND THESE PICS ARE THE BEST I CAN DO AT THE MOMENT AS I ALWAYS TRY TO USE NATURAL LIGHT!!!!

PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT MY PICTURES - I USUALLY TAKE QUITE A FEW SO YOU CAN GET A CLEAR INDICATION OF EVERY DETAIL
THIS REALLY IS AN OUTSTANDING COPY!!! AND AS AN ORIGINAL 1970 FIRST UK PRESSING AND IN SUPERB CONDITION - VERY SCARCE!!
DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS ONE IT MAY BE QUITE A WHILE BEFORE YOU SEE ANOTHER!!
AS WITH ALL MY RECORDS THIS HAS A LOW START PRICE AND NO HIDDEN RESERVE
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