THE ROLLING STONES Through The Past Darkly (big hits vol.2) *1ST PRESS* LP G/G
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FIRST UK PRESSING ON DECCA LABEL.
PLEASE SEE IMAGES FOR MATRIX INFO.
QUALITY HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL.
ORIGINAL OCTAGONAL GATEFOLD COVER & BLUE (STEREO) INNER.
UNBOXED DECCA LABELS AND STEREO/MONO INDICATOR ON COVER (RED = MONO, BLUE = STEREO)
GLOSSY HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL IN GOOD CONDITION HAVING VARIOUS SCUFFS/MARKS MOSTLY LIGHT IN NATURE. PLAYS WELL BUT WITH BACKGROUND NOISE ESPECIALLY EVIDENT BETWEEN TRACKS, MUCH LESS SO DURING AUDIO, WHICH REMAINS GOOD DESPITE AGE! NO SKIPS.
LABELS ARE FINE.
ORIGINAL SHAPED BLUE & WHITE INNER IS A LITTLE CREASED AND SPLIT ON 2 SIDES BUT WHOLE AND WITH CLEAR TEXT.
GATEFOLD COVER IS DETACHED (SEE PICS) BUT COMPLETE.APART FROM THIS IT'S IN GOOD CONDITION WITH ONLY REGULAR STORAGE/USE WEAR.
THERE IS SOME WRITING INSIDE COVER (SEE IMAGE).
NONETHELESS, THIS IS INDEED A FIRST PRESSING WHICH MAKES IT RARE AND COLLECTABLE.
This will come supplied with a new poly lined inner sleeve and clear album cover.
It will be packed in a quality mailer and stiffeners used appropriately with the disc safely removed from sleeve.
Please ask if you require further information or photographs I'm happy to help.
Combined postage a pleasure where possible. Please request.
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Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) is The Rolling Stones' second official compilation album, released in 1969 shortly following Brian Jones's departure from the group and subsequent death. The album was released by Decca Records in the UK and London Records/ABKCO Records in the US.
In September, Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2), dedicated to Jones, appeared with an octagonal-shaped album cover. Because their first Big Hits compilation had been released in separate formats, with the Aftermath-era material appearing only on its UK edition, the American edition of Big Hits Vol. 2 included hit singles from the Aftermathperiod.
The British track listing included the more obscure "You Better Move On", from The Rolling Stones' self-titled 1964 debut EP and "Sittin' on a Fence", an Aftermath outtake originally released in 1967 on the US-compiled Flowers album. In addition to those songs, many tracks, notably single-only releases, were collected for the first time on a UK Rolling Stones album: "Let's Spend the Night Together", "Ruby Tuesday", "We Love You", "Dandelion", and "Honky Tonk Women".
Both versions of Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) proved to be popular releases, reaching #2 in the UK and US with enduring sales.
The name of the album is a play on a line from the KJV translation of 1 Corinthians 13: "For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face...", but it is more likely the Stones intended a homage to Ingmar Bergman and his 1961 film Through a Glass Darkly.
In the inside flap of the album, there is an anonymous poem chosen by Jones, which reads: "When this you see, remember me, and bear me in your mind. Let all the world say what they may, speak of me as you find."
In August 2002 the US edition of Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) was reissued in a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records.
The British version was again made available to the public as part of a limited edition vinyl box set, titled The Rolling Stones 1964–1969, in November 2010. It was also re-released digitally at the same time.
It was released once more in 2011 by Universal Music Enterprises in a Japanese only SHM-SACD version
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