DAVID BOWIE ALADDIN SANE 1973 UK VINYL LP 1ST PRESS NEAR MINT TOP AUDIO EX+ SLV

	£		32
	$		42

TIME TO LIST SOME MORE OF MY VINYL RECORDS AS I'M UNFORTUNATELY RUNNING OUT OF SPACE IN THE HOUSE.
I HAVE BEEN COLLECTING VINYL RECORDS SINCE 1970 AND HAVE OVER 3,000 LP'S AND SINGLES. ALL HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY PLAYED ON A HIGH END SYSTEM, MOST HAVE BEEN STORED IN PLASTIC OUTER SLEEVES IN RECORD BOXES/MDF ICUBES AWAY FROM ANY HEAT AND IN A SMOKE FREE HOUSE. (NOT IN THE LOFT)
EVERY NOW AND THEN I LIST SOME RECORDS WHICH I HAVE DUPLICATES OF OR RARELY PLAY TO FUND MY BUYING OF OTHER RECORDS.
PLEASE NOTE THAT I FULLY PLAY GRADE ALL MY LISTINGS THROUGH HEADPHONES AND GIVE DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE VINYL, COVER AND PLAYBACK USING THE RECORD COLLECTORS GUIDE 2014. I NEVER USE MINT CONDITION EXCEPT FOR ON A SEALED BRAND NEW RECORD.
PLEASE BID WITH CONFIDENCE, I HAVE BEEN BUYING AND SELLING RECORDS ON EBAY SINCE 2006 AND HAVE 100% FEEDBACK.
IF BY ANY CHANCE YOU ARE NOT HAPPY WITH MY SERVICE PLEASE CONTACT ME FIRST TO RESOLVE ANY ISSUE AS I DO OFFER A FULL REFUND ONCE THE RECORD IS RETURNED TO ME SAFELY IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY.

ANYWAY, HERE WE HAVE ANOTHER OF MY SCHOOL MATE'S RECORDS, A FIRST PRESSING OF DAVID BOWIE'S GLAM ROCK MASTERPIECE 'ALADDIN SANE' IN NEAR MINT TOP CONDITION :

DAVID BOWIE, 'ALADDIN SANE' 1973 -3T -3T MATRICES FIRST PRESS UK VINYL LP. ON THE RCA RECORDS ORANGE LABEL, RS 1001 (LSP 4852).
IN CAREFULLY PLAYED AS NEAR TO MINT TOP AUDIO CONDITION WITH AN EXCELLENT PLUS TO NEAR MINT GATEFOLD SLEEVE AND THICK CARD LYRIC INNER.
A SUPERB TOP AUDIO COPY, CAREFULLY PLAYED A FEW TIMES THEN STORED TILL NOW, YOU WILL BE HARD PRESSED TO FIND A BETTER COPY IT IS THAT GOOD.
I'M GLAD THAT I HAVE MY OWN UK FIRST PRESS NEAR MINT COPY AS THIS IS A NEAR ARCHIVE KEEPER COPY.

ABSOLUTE FIRST PRESS VARIANT 1 STAMPED -3T -3T MATRIX NUMBERS (AS BELOW LISTED ON THE DISCOGS WEBSITE) :

SIDE 1 : CPRY 4543 -3T A1AAS (etched)
SIDE 2 : CPRY 4544 -3T A } D  ( etched - } is a ZIGZAG)

FROM THE DISCOGS WEBSITE :

Tracklist

A1 Watch That Man 4:30 A2 Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) 5:15 A3 Drive-In Saturday 4:38 A4 Panic In Detroit 4:30 A5 Cracked Actor 3:01 B1 Time 5:10 B2 The Prettiest Star 3:28 B3 Let's Spend The Night Together 3:10 B4 The Jean Genie 4:06 B5 Lady Grinning Soul 3:53

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – RCA Ltd.
• Recorded At – Trident Studios
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – RCA Records
• Manufactured By – RCA Ltd.
• Produced For – Mainman
• Published By – Mainman
• Published By – Titanic Music
• Published By – Chrysalis Music
• Published By – Design Music Ltd.
• Published By – Essex Music International
• Designed At – Duffy Design Concepts
• Made By – Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd.

Credits

• Arranged By – David Bowie, Mick Ronson
• Backing Vocals – Mac Cormack*, Juanita "Honey" Franklin*, Linda Lewis
• Bass – T.J. Bolder*
• Design [Album Cover Designed By] – Duffy*, Celia Philo
• Drums – Woody Woodmansey*
• Engineer – Ken Scott, Mick Moran*
• Mixed By – Ken Scott, Mick Ronson
• Other [Makeup] – Pierre Laroche
• Performer [Played By] – David Bowie, Mick Ronson
• Piano – Mike Garson
• Producer – David Bowie, Ken Scott
• Saxophone, Flute – Ken Fordham
• Written-By – David Bowie (tracks: A1 to B2, B4 to B6), Mick Jagger & Keith Richard* (tracks: B3)

Notes

Linda Lewis appears by courtesy of Reprise Records. This album comes in a gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeve.
Initial copies have a separate postcard advertising for the David Bowie Fan Club.

The record label has the following in brackets for the tracks:
A1 Watch That Man (New York)
A2 Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) (R.H.M.S. "Ellinis")
A3 Drive-In Saturday (Seattle - Phoenix)
A4 Panic In Detroit (Detroit)
A5 Cracked Actor (Los Angeles)
B1 Time (New Orleans)
B2 The Prettiest Star (Gloucester Road)
B4 The Jean Genie (Detroit and New York)
B5 Lady Grinning Soul (London)

Interpak by Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., England

A1 to B1, B5: Mainman
B2: Design Music Ltd.
B3: Essex Music International
B4: Titanic / Chrysalis

Manufactured by RCA Limited, England from master recordings of RCA Records.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A, Matrix, Label): C PRS 4543
• Matrix / Runout (Side B, Matrix, Label): C PRS 4544
• Matrix / Runout (Side A, Runout, Stamped, variant 1,2,3 & 4): CPRY 4543-3T
• Matrix / Runout (Side A, Runout, hand-etched, variant 1): A2AD
• Matrix / Runout (Side A, Runout, hand-etched, variant 2): A6AAA
• Matrix / Runout (Side A, Runout, hand-etched, variant 3): A2F
• Matrix / Runout (Side A, Runout, hand-etched, variant 4): A1AAV
• Matrix / Runout (Side B, Runout, Stamped, variant 1,2, 3 & 4): CPRY 4544-3T
• Matrix / Runout (Side B, Runout, hand-etched, variant 1): A2AF
• Matrix / Runout (Side B, Runout, hand-etched, variant 2): A2AAAF
• Matrix / Runout (Side B, Runout, hand-etched, variant 3): A2F
• Matrix / Runout (Side B, Runout, hand-etched, variant 4): A5AAR

MATT SURFACE ORANGE RCA LABELS : I CAN'T SEE ANY SPINDLE MARKS, JUST PLAYED A FEW TIMES THEN STORED TILL NOW. NEAR MINT CONDITION.

VINYL VISUAL : SUPERB WITH A LOVELY SHEEN, I CAN SEE A FEW TINY VERY LIGHT MARKS/SLEEVE REMOVALS WHICH DID NOT SOUND AT ALL. VISUALLY EXCELLENT PLUS CONDITION, SUPERB.

VINYL PLAYBACK : ABSOLUTELY SUPERB, WITH A LOUD CUT BASSY SOUND. WITH VIRTUALLY NO CRACKLE AND NEAR SILENCE BETWEEN TRACKS, THERE IS JUST SOME VERY LIGHT RANDOM CRACKLE FOR A FEW SECONDS IN THE QUIET INTRO TO 'TIME' ON SIDE 2, HARDLY NOTIEABLE. THE DYNAMIC MUSIC IS CRISP AND RIGHT TO THE FORE, THERE IS NOTHING THAT DETRACTS FROM A SUPERB SOUNDING ALBUM. NO SKIPS, CLICKS OR JUMPS. 
THIS SOUNDS FANTASTIC, FOR ME THIS IS BOWIE'S BEST GLAM PERIOD ALBUM. WITH MIKE GARSON'S PIANO SO UPFRONT ON THE BRILLIANT 'ALADDIN SANE' IT IS PURE AUDIO HEAVEN. EVERY TRACK ON THIS ALBUM IS A KILLER.
THEREFORE OVERALL IN AS NEAR TO MINT TOP AUDIO CONDITION, YOU WILL BE HARD PRESSED TO FIND A BETTER AUDIO COPY IT IS THAT GOOD!

I HAVE ALSO CLEANED THE RECORD WITH ANTI-STATIC FLUID TO REMOVE ANY DUST AND PLACED IT IN A BRAND NEW ANTI-STATIC POLY-LINED INNER.

WIDE SPINE GATEFOLD SLEEVE, MADE IN ENGLAND BY SHOREWOOD PACKAGING CO LTD :
KEPT IN A RECORD BOX SINCE PURCHASE, SO NO EDGE OR CORNER WEAR. THE WIDE SPINE IS TOTALLY CRISP AND FULLY LEGIBLE, NOT CREASES OR CORNER BUMPS. NO OBVIOUS RINGWEAR/RUBBING MARKS. THE OPENING EDGE HAS NO FEATHERING, NO STICKER MARKS.  JUST A COUPLE OF LIGHT GRUBBY FINGERMARKS AND ONE BROWN AGE SPOT. INSIDE THE GATEFOLD IS LIKE NEW.
OVERALL EXCELLENT PLUS TO NEAR MINT CONDITION, A SUPERB COVER.
PLEASE SEE THE NUMEROUS PICTURES.

ORIGINAL THICK CARD LYRIC INNER SLEEVE : LIKE NEW. NO CREASES OR TEARS. NO SPLITS CAUSED BY THE RECORD'S EDGES. OVERALL NEAR MINT  CONDITION, SUPERB.

I WILL ALSO SEND THIS OUT TO THE WINNING BIDDER WITH A BRAND NEW PLASTIC OUTER SLEEVE TO PROTECT THE COVER.

OVERALL AN AS NEAR TO MINT TOP AUDIO CONDITION UK 1973 FIRST PRESSING COPY OF THIS CLASSIC BOWIE ALBUM WITH A NEAR MINT SLEEVE AND LYRIC INNER.
A SUPERB ARCHIVE TOP AUDIO COPY WITH A NEAR MINT SLEEVE, YOU WILL BE HARD PRESSED TO FIND A BETTER COPY.

LOW STARTING PRICE, SO GRAB A BARGAIN. PLEASE SEE MY OTHER LISTINGS, MORE RECORDS TO BE LISTED SOON.

I WILL POST TO THE REST OF EUROPE £13 TRACKABLE AIRMAIL AND TO THE REST OF THE WORLD £18 TRACKABLE AIRMAIL BUT PLEASE WAIT FOR AN INVOICE BEFORE PAYING.

THESE WILL BE SENT OUT TO UK BUYERS 2ND CLASS SIGNED FOR/TRACKABLE IN PROPER RECORD MAILERS WELL STIFFENED WITH THICK CARDBOARD FOR PROTECTION.

I OFFER DISCOUNTED POSTAGE IN THE UK, SIGNED FOR/TRACKABLE - MAXIMUM OF 4 X LP'S IN A BOXED MAILER :
2 X LP'S - £5.50, 3 X LP'S - £6.50, 4 X LP'S - £7.50.

HAPPY BIDDING!