JOHN'S CHILDREN/THE LOVE I THOUGHT I'D FOUND,BOLAN DEMO +PICTURE SLEEVE*PSYCH
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John's Children
'The Love I Thought I'd Found' / 'Strange Affair'
Columbia Demo DB 8030 - 14 October 1966
with Promo Picture Sleeve
Here's a rare chance to own what is by far the rarest of the legitimately released British John's Children singles.
'The Love I Thought I'd Found' / 'Strange Affair' was released as their debut 45 and it hit the shops in 1966, and has questionable claim to being one of the first UK psychedelic 45s.
Most of you reading this will be familiar with the excellance of the A side and the gloriously barmy coupling, consequently it's way out qualities were too much for the record buying public in Britain and it sold poorly.
Aside from 'Midsummer' it's always been the most elusive of their standard 45s, and in the main, stock copies are as difficult to find as demos, but even rarer are the very few demos that were sent out to DJs with promo picture sleeves!!! Very few of these have ever turned up for sale, and I think it's safe to assume that not all demos were housed in them.
As you can see from the scan the sleeve portrays a familiar picture of the pre Bolan line up of Hewlett, Ellison, Townson and McClelland (on both sides).
For collectors of UK psych 45s, this is an important record, not only as enlarged upon earlier, it's one of the earliest discs in it's genre (though John's Children are in a genre of their own!), but it's one of that attractive and legendary clutch of British 60s demo 45s issued in promo picture sleeves (Pink Floyd, T.Rex, Tales of Justine immediately spring to mind), that are keenly sought after, extremely scarce and bookmark a collection beautifully.
CONDITION:
VINYL: NEAR MINT!!!!!!!!!!
SLEEVE is difficult to describe. It is completely opened or pushed down below and it has a lot creasing. As you can see it is slightly torn on every side (top right / top left). In my opinion i would grade it VG.
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THIS ITEM IS LOCATED IN GERMANY: POSTAGE RATES FOR 1-3 SINGLES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
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EUROPE/ REST OF WORLD : 7 EURO (REGIST. LETTER) / 6 UK POUNDS (REGIST LETTER)
PAYMENT.
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