Jethro Tull - War Child - Scarce 1974 UK First Pressing in EX+/EX+ Condition

	£		74
	$		98

Artist & Title: Jethro Tull – War Child

War Child: Scarce 1974 UK 1st pressing 10-track green label vinyl LP, complete with lyric inner and laminated picture sleeve. Both the sleeve and vinyl are in excellent condition and show little sign of being nearly forty years old. Highly desirable for its first press matrices and increasingly hard to find in even reasonable condition, this copy is in Excellent Plus condition. And as these first UK pressings come up so infrequently in this condition this could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to add this extreme rarity to your collection at an extremely advantageous price.

Catalogue Number: Chrysalis ?– CHR 1067 (CHR.1067 on label)

Release date: 26 October 1974 (UK)

Overall Grade: EX+/EX+ (LP/Cover)

Matrix/Runout: Side 1: CHR 1067 A-3U PORKY & MELLY  Side 2: CHR 1067 B-1U PECKIE & MELLIE

Album contains black card inner sleeve with lyrics and credits.
Recorded at Morgan Studios, London.
Published by Maison Rouge Music
? 1974 Chrysalis Records Ltd
© 1974 Maison Rouge Music
Lyrics reprinted by permission
All rights reserved, CHR 1067
Printed in England

This rare UK FIRST ISSUE of this Jethro Tull LP is hardly ever offered for sale in this condition.

This is the extremely rare real thing: a GENUINE UK first pressing in EX+/EX+ condition. The record, cover and inner sleeve are all in excellent condition, without any obvious defects (they genuinely look like they might have been bought new today). See pics. All items are the genuine originals bought together by me in 1974 not reprints. The LP is the original UK first pressing stereo LP, which was only played occasionally on top-end audiophile equipment and lovingly cared for.

THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF THIS ALBUM EVER OFFERED FOR SALE IN RECENT TIMES

War Child is the seventh studio album by Jethro Tull, released in October 1974.
Originally meant to accompany a film project (the album was planned as a double-album set), it was reinstated as a ten-song, single-length rock album after failed attempts to find a major movie studio to finance the film.
The "War Child" movie was written as a metaphysical black comedy concerning a teenage girl in the afterlife, meeting characters based on God, St. Peter and Lucifer portrayed as if shrewd businessmen. Notable British actor Leonard Rossiter was to have been featured, Margot Fonteyn was to have choreographed, while Monty Python veteran John Cleese was pencilled in as a "humour consultant".

This may be your only ONCE IN A LIFETIME chance to own this piece of rock history in this condition.

Another malcontented masterpiece, this time saving some of the choicest vitriol for war. "War Child" marked a return to individual songs over side-long suites, making it a more accessible album than "A Passion Play". The tortuously tight arrangements featured here will hold much attraction for fans of Gentle Giant: violins, accordions, electric guitar are only some of the unique sounds stirred together in this great stew. In fact, this might be the most musically ambitious of all the Tull albums, swelling the band's sound to a small orchestra by expanding the arsenal of individual musicians and presenting David Palmer's orchestrations right in the middle of the mix as a sixth player. Although the record flows well enough, the back cover is a better indication of what lies within: a wide cast of characters with little in common on the surface. One moment, Anderson is steeped in metaphors ("Bungle in the Jungle"), the next he's stepped out of character to address his critics ("Only Solitaire"). The metaphor arbitrarily changes on "Sealion" (life is now a circus, not a war or jungle), the time line slips from current day to the Elizabethan era. With all this skipping around, no resolution comes on "The Third Hoorah" and "Two Fingers" the way it did on Too Old To Rock n' Roll's final tracks. Of course, it's not a certainty that "War Child" is a concept album; while the songs have a shared musical sensibility and the themes are perceived to come from the same character, it's something of an expansive and occasionally rambling criticism of life in general (a charge levelled against Tull's earlier albums as well).
"War Child"'s achievement is in its music: some of the richest in recent memory, the arrangements are consistently stunning in their execution, courting excess but impossibly balanced by admirable dexterity. Also, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that "Skating On The Thin Ice of The New Day" is one of my favourite songs (a musical epiphany, if you will).

A fantastic time warp example of this rarity in amazing condition, a true investment grade item - get it while you can!

AND IT MUST SELL IN THIS ONCE ONLY AUCTION

You can read more about this album HERE and all over the web.

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