LED ZEPPELIN - HOUSES OF THE HOLY 1ST 1973 RL STERLING UK PRESS VINYL LP N-MINT
  £   217
  $   288

 


£ 217 Sold For
Oct 16, 2022 Sold Date
Oct 6, 2022 Start Date
31   Number Of Bids
  Great Britain Country Of Seller
eBay Auctioned at
 
save auction  

Description

Hi and thanks for looking at my listing

I have a massive RARE VINYL collection gathered over the past 40 years

I am now planning to sell hundreds of the rarer ones at approximately 20-30 lps per week

so check all my listings, Rare near MINT listings each week including:

Pink Floyd Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Vertigo Swirls, Sex Pistols, Punk, Indie Prog Rock and Reggae, ETC.

WORLDWIDE AND COMBINED POSTAGE OFFERED

ALL VINYLS CORRECTLY POSTED IN A MUSIC MAX CRUCIFORM MAILER WITH STIFFENERS

£0.99p START PRICE WITH NO RESERVE SET !!!

LED ZEPPELIN 

HOUSES OF THE HOLY

AMAZING CONDITION, PLAYED ONCE TO RECORD IN 1973, POSSIBLY ONCE AGAIN IN THE 1980s ?

 THEN ONCE YESTERDAY TO TEST PLAY !!!

SHOP FRESH, SUPERB CONDITION AFTER 49 YEARS !!

MASTERED BY ROBERT LUDWIG

RARE ROBERT LUDWIG (RL) STERLING ETCHED IN RUNOUTS

FIRST UK 1973 STEREO PRESSING 

ATLANTIC K 50014

FIRST PRESS MATRICES 

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped): K 50014 A2 STERLING RL
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped): K 50014 B2 STERLING RL

NOTES

This 1st Press initial UK release, orange/white/green Atlantic labels with no WEA logo, 'All Rights...' circular label text in the orange section only. Released in a matt gatefold sleeve with textured lyric inner sleeve.
1st cat on labels , 2nd cat on lyric inner
(On labels) Made in UK Superhype Publishing / Warner Bros. music ℗ 1973
(On lyric inner) Recorded at Electric Lady Studios New York and Olympic London. ℗ & © 1973 WEA Records Ltd. All titles published by Superhype publishing/Warner Bros. Music Ltd. An Atlantic Record distributed by WEA Records Ltd.
Printed in England by Macneill Press Ltd.

CONDITION 

RECORD IS OBVIOUSLY VERY NEAR MINT, LOVELY WITH A DEEP GLOSSY MIRROR LIKE NEW RAINBOW SHEEN TO THE VINYL SURFACES WHICH ARE CLEAN AND BRIGHT. OBVIOUSLY PLAYED ONLY TWICE IN THE LAST 40 YEARS.

I CANNOT SEE ANY BLEMISHES NOT EVEN VERY FEINT HAIRLINES EACH SIDE EVEN WHEN VINYL IS TILTED, UNDER A STRONG LIGHT, SUPERB AUDIO PLAYBACK, (SEE PICS)

THEREFORE, A GREAT AUDIO EXPERIENCE WHEN PLAYTESTED ON MY REGA TURNTABLE, LOVELY!!!

THE FIRST UK PRESS GATEFOLD RECORD SLEEVE IS EXCELLENT

BEING ULTRA CRITICAL,THE VERY SMALLEST CORNER RUB PRESENT WITH A TINY 5mm SPLIT JUST STARTING AT TOP AN UNCRUSHED SEAM AND THE SPINE IS STILL FULLY LEGIBLE, AND THE OPENING EDGE IS CLEAN AND DEFINED. SLIGHTEST RUB ON REVERSE ONLY, OTHERWISE NEAR MINT (SEE ALL PICS)

FIRST PRESS INNER IS ALSO IN NEAR MINT SHOP FRESH CLEAN CONDITION (SEE ALL PICS)

ATLANTIC FIRST PRESS LABELS ARE IN SUPERB CONDITION (SEE PICS) WITH JUST ONE VERY FEINT SPINDLE MARK CONFINED TO THE DISC CENTRE CONFIRMING 2 MAYBE 3 PLAYS SINCE 1973 !!

SO, IN CONCLUSION, NOT ONLY A RARE SUPER CONDITION UK FIRST PRESS BUT IMPORTANTLY THE VINYL SOUNDS GREAT!!!! 

SUPERB SHOP FRESH EXAMPLE OF THIS RARE FIRST UK PRESS, 49-YEAR-OLD ICONIC ROCK ALBUM 

PLEASE VIEW ALL PICTURES CLOSELY AND USE ZOOM FUNCTION TO SELF ASSESS

ALSO PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER RARE FIRST PRESS BEATLES, PINK FLOYD, ZEPPELIN, SABBATH, ETC ROCK VINYLS LISTED, FROM MY PERSONAL COLLECTION, GATHERED OVER 40 YEARS, 

AND THANKS FOR LOOKING

Led Zeppelin – Houses Of The Holy


Label: Atlantic – K 50014, Atlantic – K50014 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold Country: UK Released: 28 Mar 1973 Genre: Rock Style: Classic Rock, Hard Rock

Tracklist


A1 The Song Remains The Same 5:24 A2 The Rain Song Mellotron – John Paul Jones 6:32 A3 Over The Hills And Far Away 4:06 A4 The Crunge Synthesizer – John Paul Jones 3:52 B1 Dancing Days Organ – John Paul Jones 3:40 B2 D'yer Mak'er Piano – John Paul Jones 4:18 B3 No Quarter Grand Piano, Synthesizer, Bass [Synthesised] – John Paul Jones 6:52 B4 The Ocean Backing Vocals – John*, John Paul*, Robert* 4:16

Companies, etc.

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – WEA Records Ltd.
  • Copyright © – WEA Records Ltd.
  • Recorded At – Electric Lady Studios
  • Recorded At – Olympic Studios
  • Published By – Superhype Music, Inc.
  • Published By – Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
  • Distributed By – WEA Records Ltd.
  • Printed By – MacNeill Press Ltd.
  • Mastered At – Sterling Sound

Credits

  • Bass – John Paul Jones
  • Design [Sleeve] – Hipgnosis (2)
  • Drums – John Bonham
  • Engineer – Eddie Kramer, George Chkiantz, Keith Harwood
  • Executive-Producer – Peter Grant
  • Guitar – Jimmy Page
  • Mastered By – RL*
  • Producer – Jimmy Page
  • Vocals – Robert Plant
  • Written-By – Page*, Bonham* (tracks: A4, B2, B4), Jones* (tracks: A4, B2 to B4), Plant*


price rating