MOODY BLUES Days Of Future Passed LP 1967 DERAM MONO 1st Press WITHDRAWN

	£		156
	$		207

On offer here is a VERY rare LP (especially in this condition!!!!) by The Moody Blues called "Days Of Future Passed" and is an ORIGINAL 1967 UK MONO 1st Pressing on the 1st Press 'Grooved' Large 'DSS' Deram label!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!!!!  THIS IS ONE OF THE MOODY BLUES RAREST LPs EVER - AND VIRTUALLY NEVER TURNS UP FOR SALE!!!!  JUST TRY AND FIND ANOTHER ONE!!!!  THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST LEGENDARY AND MOST SOUGHT AFTER LPs ON THE DERAM LABEL - AND IS INCREDIBLY HARD TO LOCATE TODAY!!!!  HOWEVER, THIS ONE IS MADE REALLY SPECIAL - AS IT IS THE 'EARLIEST' & RAREST 1ST PRESSING EVER, AND ONLY 500 COPIES WERE EVER MADE!!!!  AND THIS IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ON THIS LP!!!!  WHEN THIS LP WAS BEING PREPARED FOR RELEASE, HUGE ERRORS WERE MADE IN THE COVER, THE LABELS AND ALSO THE CREDITS!!!!  AND THIS LP IS SO RARE, THAT MOST PEOPLE WILL HAVE NEVER EVEN SEEN ONE!!!!  HERE ARE THE DIFFERENCES IN DETAIL:-

COVER FRONT:-

1) THE TITLE 'DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED' IS BIGGER THAN THE ARTISTS BELOW (MOODY BLUES & LONDON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA) ON THE TOP OF THE COVER FRONT.

2) THE TEXT 'THE MOODY BLUES' AT THE TOP OF THE COVER FRONT IS IN BLACK, SMALLER THAN THE LPs TITLE, AND IS THE SAME SIZE AS 'THE LONDON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA' (ON LATER COPIES THE TEXT 'THE MOODY BLUES' WAS PRINTED IN TURQUOISE AND WAS ENLARGED TO BE THE SAME SIZE AS THE TITLE.

3) THE TRACK LISTING ON THE COVER FRONT (JUST BELOW THE TITLE & ARTISTS) STARTS AT THE EXTREME LEFT, AND HAS LARGER SPACES, BIGGER TYPEFACE, AND SMALLER DOTS PRINTED BETWEEN THE TRACKS.  THE TRACK 'TIME TO GET AWAY' IS WRONGLY OMITTED FROM THIS FRONT COVER LISTING. (ON LATER COPIES THE TEXT IS SMALLER, STARTS FURTHER IN, HAS LARGER DOTS, AND THE TRACK 'TIME TO GET AWAY' WAS ADDED).

COVER BACK:-

4)  JUST LIKE THE COVER FRONT, ON THE COVER BACK - THE TITLE 'DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED' IS MUCH BIGGER THAN THE ARTISTS BELOW (MOODY BLUES & LONDON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA) ON THE TOP OF THE COVER BACK.

5) AGAIN - JUST LIKE THE COVER FRONT, ON THE COVER BACK - THE TEXT 'THE MOODY BLUES' AT THE TOP OF THE COVER BACK IS SMALLER THAN THE LPs TITLE, AND IS THE SAME SIZE AS 'THE LONDON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA' (ON LATER COPIES THE TEXT 'THE MOODY BLUES' WAS ENLARGED TO BE THE SAME SIZE AS THE TITLE (WITH THE OTHER CREDITS SHRUNK).

6) IN THE TRACK LISTING TO THE LEFT ON THE COVER BACK, THE TRACK 'TIME TO GET AWAY' IS WRONGLY OMITTED FROM THE TRACKLISTING.  (ON LATER COPIES THIS WAS ADDED JUST BELOW 'FOREVER AFTERNOON')

THE LABELS:-

1) BOTH LABELS WRONGLY COPYRIGHT ALL SONGS TO 'ESSEX MUSIC INTERNATIONAL'.  (THIS WAS INCORRECT AND EACH TRACK WAS INDIVIDUALLY CREDITED ON LATER COPIES).

2) ALL TRACKS WERE WRONGLY CREDITED TO 'REDWAVE/KNIGHT' - WHO WERE MEMBERS OF THE ORCHESTRA!  (CLEARLY THIS WAS INCORRECT - AND THE MOODY BLUES WRITTEN TRACKS WERE GIVEN THE CORRECT CREDIT ON THE LATER COPIES!).

3) THE TRACK 'TIME TO GET AWAY' WAS WRONGLY OMITTED FROM THE SIDE 2 LABEL (ADDED ON LATER COPIES).

THIS IS A HUGE AMOUNT OF MAJOR ERRORS - WHICH ONLY THE FIRST 500 COPIES EVER HAD!!!!  AND ALSO NOTICE THAT NO ONE CAN SWOP THE COVER OR THE RECORD - AS EVERY PART OF THE LP IS RADICALLY DIFFERENT!!!!  ONLY 2 OR 3 BATCHES OF COVERS WERE EVER MADE LIKE (PRIOR TO THE RELEASE DATE!), AND ONLY A HANDFUL LEAKED OUT!!!!  EVEN ON THE RELEASE DATE 99% OF COPIES DID NOT HAVE THIS COVER OR RECORD!!!!  SO THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT AT ALL - THAT THIS IS THE 'EARLIEST' & RAREST 1ST PRESSING EVER MADE (AND IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE RAREST MOODY BLUES LP ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD TODAY!)!!!!


UNFORTUNATELY PEOPLE DO LIKE TO INVENT REASONS WHY THIS LP CAME TO BE LIKE THIS.  HOWEVER NEARLY ALL OF THE STORIES ARE MYTHS OR DOWNRIGHT LIES.  HERE ARE THE MYTHS & LIES ABOUT THIS LP:-

1) THE FIRST MYTH IS THE MOODY BLUES WEREN'T POPULAR AT THE TIME.  THIS IS UNTRUE, AND THEY WERE RELEASING 45s THROUGHOUT 1966 AND 1967 RIGHT UP UNTIL THE TIME OF THIS LPs RELEASE.

2) THE SECOND MYTH IS THAT DECCA HAD LOST PATIENCE WITH THE BAND, AND THIS LP WAS A RUSH RELEASE.  WELL CLEARLY THIS IS VERY UNTRUE.  DECCA WERE WELL KNOWN FOR BEING VERY STINGY WITH STUDIO TIME, WITH MANY BIG HITS RECORDED IN AN AFTERNOON!!!!  WHEREAS THIS LP WAS PLANNED WAY IN ADVANCE, AND WAS RECORDED BETWEEN THE 9th MAY 1967 AND THE 3rd NOVEMBER 1967 - A HUGE AMOUNT OF STUDIO TIME, AND A MAJOR INVESTMENT BY DECCA!!!!

3) BUT THE LAST MYTH ABOUT THIS LP IS THAT THE COVER WAS MADE LIKE THIS UNTIL 'NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN' BECAME A HIT AND ONLY THEN DID THEY CHANGE THE COVER TO MAKE THE MOODY BLUES BIGGER.  NOW THIS MYTH IS INCREDIBLY AMUSING, AND THE PERSON WHO CAME UP WITH IT DESERVES CREDIT AS A COMEDIAN!!!!  NOW OK, THAT MAY BE A BIT HARSH - BUT IT IS SO VERY WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS!!!!  FIRSTLY ALL THE COVER & RECORD CHANGES WERE ALL CORRECTED AT THE SAME TIME.  WELL AT THE VERY LEAST THE PUBLISHING COMPANIES WOULD HAVE COMPLAINED ABOUT THE MISSING CREDITS TO THEM!!!!  WITH ALL THESE ERRORS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE COVER & RECORD TO HAVE STAYED LIKE THIS FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME - AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CREDITED IMMEDIATELY.  BUT THE MAIN REASON THAT THE STATEMENT 'THE COVER WAS CHANGED AFTER NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN BECAME A HIT' IS COMPLETELY BOGUS - IS THAT THIS LP WAS RELEASED ON THE 10th NOVEMBER 1967.  AND 'NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN' DIDN'T EVEN BECOME A HIT UNTIL THE 2nd JANUARY 1968 (AND ONLY THEN AT NUMBER 50!) AND DIDN'T MAKE THE TOP 20 UNTIL LATE FEBRUARY 1968!!!!  SO THIS LP WAS ON SALE FOR 2 MONTHS OVER THE CHRISTMAS PERIOD IN 1967 BEFORE 'NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN' BECAME A HIT, AND 3 AND A HALF MONTHS BEFORE THE SINGLE MADE THE TOP 20!!!!  NOW CLEARLY IF THIS COVER WAS ONLY CHANGED 3 MONTHS AFTER RELEASE - THERE WOULD BE A GREAT MANY AROUND.  AND THERE CLEARLY ISNT!!!!  SO THIS THEORY IS CATEGORICALLY DEBUNKED.

THE SIMPLE TRUTH ABOUT WHY THIS COVER EXISTS - AND WHY ONLY 500 COPIES WERE EVER MADE:-

I WOULD IMAGINE BY THIS POINT, MOST PEOPLE WILL HAVE WORKED OUT WHAT THIS COVER WAS WITHDRAWN AND IMMEDIATELY CHANGED PRIOR TO THE RELEASE DATE.  AND THE REASON IS THAT EVERY SINGLE THING WAS WRONG WITH IT!!!!  THE PUBLISHING MUSIC COMPANIES WOULD HAVE COMPLAINED IMMEDIATELY, BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT CREDITED.  THE MOODY BLUES WOULD HAVE COMPLAINED AS THEY GOT NO SONGWRITING CREDITS - AND QUITE RIGHTLY WOULD HAVE SAID THAT THEY WERE BIGGER IN NAME THAN AN ORCHESTRA!!!!  AND LASTLY THE ORCHESTRA WOULD HAVE COMPLAINED BECAUSE ONE OF THEIR TRACKS 'TIME TO GET AWAY' WAS MISSED OFF THE LABELS, AND BOTH SIDES OF THE COVER!!!!  SO JUST ABOUT EVERYONE WOULD HAVE BEEN GREATLY UNHAPPY WITH THE WHOLE LP!!!!  AND IMPORTANTLY ALL CORRECTIONS WERE MADE IMMEDIATELY AND AT THE VERY SAME TIME - PRIOR TO RELEASE!!!!  IF THIS LP HAD BEEN CORRECTED ANY LATER THAN THAT - A GREAT MANY WOULD APPEAR.  AND YET THEY DON'T!!!!  

THIS LP IS SIMPLY INCREDIBLY RARE!!!!  IT IS THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING EVER MADE, WAS WITHDRAWN BEFORE RELEASE, AND ONLY 500 COPIES WERE EVER MADE!!!!  OF COURSE, NOW MANY PEOPLE WILL SAY THAT ALL LATER ONES ARE NOW 'RE-ISSUES'.  WELL THAT OF COURSE IS PERFECTLY LUDICRIOUS.  THIS COVER IS THE RAREST & EARLIEST EVER - HAVE NO DOUBT.  BUT IT IS DEFINITELY NOT HOW MOST COPIES WERE SOLD IN THE RELEASE DATE, AS ONLY A TINY HANDFUL OF THESE LEAKED OUT!!!!  SO THE 1ST PRESSINGS ARE DEFINITELY THE 'MOODY BLUES' IN TURQUOISE ON THE COVER FRONT - AS THAT IS EXACTLY HOW THE LP WAS INTENDED TO BE ON THE RELEASE DAY!!!!  THIS LP ON THE OTHER HAND SHOULD REALLY BE REGARDED AS A 'PRE-RELEASE' 1ST PRESSING, AS BARELY ANY WERE EVER MADE, AND IT NEEDED MAJOR CORRECTIONS BEFORE THE RELEASE DATE!!!!  IT IS ALMOST LIKE A 'PROOF' COVER & RECORD!!!!  THIS LP IS ONE OF THE RAREST UK LPs EVER MADE (500 COPIES ONLY) OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND LEGENDARY LPs EVER MADE - AND THE CHANCES OF EVER FINDING ANOTHER ONE AGAIN, IS VIRTUALLY ZERO!!!!

NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS LP IS IN BRILLIANT CONDITION!!!!  JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES!!!!  THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1967 UK 'PRE-RELEASE' MONO 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING ON THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'GROOVED' LARGE 'DSS' DERAM LABEL, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS WRONG LABEL CREDITS & MISSING TRACK, 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS INNER SLEEVE, AND 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'CLOUT & BAKER' LAMINATED MONO COVER (WITH DIFFERENT TITLES, AND MISSING TRACK!)!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!!  This is the ORIGINAL Deram UK 1st Pressing from 1967 and is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  The record is pressed on THICK quality vinyl. The Cat. No is DML 707 on the ORIGINAL 1st Press Large 'DSS' Deram label (see picture) and is a much MUCH rarer UK MONO 1st Pressing!!!!

The record labels are in SUPERB condition (see pictures) with NO wear, NO writing, and only a few VERY light spindle marks!!!!  The vinyl is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  Most of these 60s LPs had been to a lot of wild parties and are usually found totally worn out, and almost unplayable.  This one is NOT and has NO nasty concentric marks AT ALL, only 3 or 4 light hairlines, NO nasty 'tick' marks AT ALL, only 3 or 4 VERY light small surface traces, and only a VERY few of the lightest paper scuffs only visible under light!!!!  THE RECORD STILL RETAINS ITS ORIGINAL 'JUST PRESSED' LOOK AND SHINES LIKE NEW!!!!  It is also great to find that the record plays as STUNNINGLY as the visual with NO skips, barely ANY clicks, NO sticking, NO jumps, and barely ANY crackle AT ALL!!!!  The sound quality is simply SUPERB with NO distortion and NO groovewear either!!!!  The record must grade Very Good+ if not better!!!!  Believe me this record is NOT overgraded in ANY way!!!!  I use STRICT RC grading standards - it is not in my interest not to!!!!  Brillant!!!!  The record also comes in its ORIGINAL 1st Press inner sleeve which is in SUPERB condition!!!!  The ORIGINAL 'Earliest' 1st Press 'Clout & Baker' Laminated MONO Cover (with missing track & wrong titles!) is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  It has NO edge wear, NO spinal wear, only slight corner wear, NO spine splits, NO edge splits, only a few VERY light creases (cover is VERY flat looking!), VERY shiny laminate, only 1 TINY repaired 'nick' to the top opening edge, NO annotations, and NO writing!!!!  The opening edge is beautifully straight with barely ANY feathering AT ALL!!!!  Even the unlaminated back of the cover is in BRILLIANT condition with NO grubbyness, NO yellowing, NO ringwear, NO rubbing, and NO writing!!!!  The cover must grade Very Good+ if not better!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS (ESPECIALLY IN MEGA RARE MONO AND AS THE 'PRE-RELEASE' WITHDRAWN 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING EVER MADE!) - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY!!!!

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