JOHN LENNON Sings The Great Rock & Roll Hits - ROOTS LP, VG+

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JOHN LENNON Sings The Great Rock & Roll Hits -ROOTS LP. Condition is "USED". Shipped with USPS Media Mail.

Tracklist

A1 Be-Bop-A-Lula 2:39 A2 Ain't That A Shame 2:34 A3 Stand By Me 3:26 A4 Sweet Little Sixteen 3:01 A5 Rip It Up 1:33 A6 Angel Baby 3:42 A7 Do You Want To Dance 3:02 A8 You Can't Catch Me 4:03 B1 Bony Moronie 3:47 B2 Peggy Sue 2:06 B3 Bring It On Home To Me 3:41 B4 Slippin' & Slidin' 2:20 B5 Be My Baby 4:34 B6 Ya Ya 2:17 B7 Just Because 4:25

Notes

Many counterfeits exist of this album, and this is probably one, see description, but these are rare too.  The songs on this album play VG+.

Presented on this album are Lennon's rough mixes of what became his "Rock & Roll" album. Production of the original LP was halted and about 3000 copies survive.

These are the steps to see if your version is the original:
1) If any copy has the word GREATEST (instead of GREAT) printed on the spine-it's a fake.  THIS ONE SAYS GREATEST
2) Original covers are manufactured with white posterboard. If any copy has a paste on cover slicks-it's a fake...beware some counterfeits have copied the white posterboard construction.  THIS IS NOT PASTED.
3) On the cover,if you cannot see the pink flesh on John Lennon's shoulder-its a fake Many counterfeits use a slightly enlarged copy of the front cover which cuts out the shoulder.  NO FLESH.
4) If the letters in the word STEREO (in the bottom right corner of the cover) run together-its a fake.All originals have the word STEREO printed in separate letters.
5) On the back cover, the printing on the little album covers in the advertisment are legible, This is not to say they are perfectly clear because the print is really small. Every counterfeit that I have seen has the print absolutely unreadable.  CAN'T READ ON THIS.
6) If The record is unusually thick piece of vinyl-its a fake. Remember,original copies of this record were pressed in 1975, vinyl records were not pressed with the same heavy,thick vinyl as they were in the 1960's.  THICK
7) if the label on the record is unusually large compared to a standard 1970's pressing-its a fake. 8) If the trail off area of the record does not have a machine stamp BELL SOUND-its a fake. But beware some counterfeits do have BELL SOUND stamped in the dead wax.  HAS BELL SOUND STAMPED ON BOTH SIDES
9)There is one definitive thing that separates the originals from the fakes..All original copies have the matrix number of A 8018 pressed into Side 1 Label. No counterfeits have this feature.....  BUT THIS HAS A8018 A.  SIDE 2 HAS A8018 B