THE WHO LIVE AT LEEDS ORIGINAL UK PRESSING MINT AUDIO

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THE WHO LIVE AT LEEDS ORIGINAL UK PRESSING MINT AUDIO

Hello & welcome to my site, I’ve been a member since June 2006 and have a 100% FEEDBACK SCORE for buying and selling!

I have a very large Personal Record collection which I’ve collected for well over 45 years and have been Involved with Vinyl Records with work as well, I worked for Kelly records and downtown records in Brentwood Essex back in the 70’s where I picked up a lot of RARE albums. I also worked at DECCA for sometime and again managed to get my hands on some beauties. I will be putting up for Auction lots of rare albums & some not so rare on eBay in the coming years-----In all sorts of condition-------but nothing which is unplayable. Some of the albums which I will be listing are Pink Floyd-DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (BLUE TRIANGLE), Pretty Things- SF SORROW, Lots of Rolling Stones & Beatles, Ten Years After, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull and many--many more.

THE WHO----LIVE AT LEEDS!

ORINIGAL UK PRESSING

Live at Leeds (1970) is The Who's first live album, and is their only live album that was released while the band was still recording and performing regularly. In 2003, the album was ranked number 170 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time

It is thought by many to be the best live rock album of all time and is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.  It is also included in Q Magazine's list of Loudest Albums of All Time.

After releasing Tommy in mid-1969 The Who went on an extended world tour to promote it, and returned to England at year's end with a desire to release a live album from the tour. However, they balked at the prospect of listening to approximately 80 hours of accumulated recordings to decide which would make the best album; it was rumoured that Townshend burned the tapes (to prevent bootlegging), a rumour squashed later by Daltrey in an interview.

Perhaps because of these circumstances, or perhaps because The Who were hyped up from their international success with Tommy, or perhaps simply because The Who were in their prime at the time of recording, Live At Leeds turned out to be a wildly popular recording.

The album cover looks like the simple cover of a bootleg LP of the era: it is of plain brown cardboard with "The Who Live At Leeds" printed on it in plain blue or red block letters as if stamped on with ink. The original LP's cover opened out, gatefold-style, and had a pocket on either side of the interior, with the record in a paper sleeve on one side and facsimiles of various memorabilia on the other, including a photo of the band from the My GenerationTommy, a receipt for smoke bombs, and the early black "Maximum R&B" poster showing Pete Townshend windmilling his Rickenbacker. photoshoot, handwritten lyrics to the "Listening to You" chorus from

The label was handwritten (apparently in Townshend's hand), and included instructions to the engineers not to attempt to remove any crackling noise. This is probably a reference to the clicking and popping on the pre-remastered version (notably in "Shakin All Over") which was from John Entwistle's bass cable. Modern digital remastering techniques allowed this to be removed, and also allowed some of the worst affected tracks from the gig to be used also.

Live at Leeds became a critical smash, with The New York Times acclaiming it as "the best live rock album ever made." Its reputation as such continues to this day with Q magazine recently putting it at the top of its list of the greatest live albums of all time.

The album's reputation has become so lofty that the venue at which it was recorded, the University of Leeds refectory, has been named a national landmark in the UK, commemorated with a blue plaque.

• Roger Daltrey – lead vocals, harmonica, tambourine
• Pete Townshend – guitar, vocals
• John Entwistle – bass guitar, vocals
• Keith Moon – drums, vocals

Original 1970 release

The original LP contained six tracks.

Side 1:

1. "Young Man Blues" (Mose Allison) – 5:51
2. "Substitute" (Pete Townshend) – 2:05
3. "Summertime Blues" (Jerry Capehart, Eddie Cochran) – 3:22
4. "Shakin' All Over" (Johnny Kidd) – 4:15

Side 2:

1. "My Generation" (Pete Townshend) – 14:27
2. "Magic Bus" (Pete Townshend) – 7:30

The Album I have listed today is from my personal collection and as been well looked after. This is in SUPERB! Condition, this really is a superb piece of vinyl that plays absolutely fantastic through out and is so hard to find in this condition-----AWESOME! There is no sticking, Jumps or any distortion that I could detect and I play tested album on two top quality decks and also using headphones to get a more accurate and better idea how vinyl sounds. Over all Vinyl retains a shiny gloss and lays flat on turntable with no warping and plays well through out, and in my opinion still as a superb sound! Audio still comes through loud and clear. If I can fault this LP at all there is odd static tic, but please remember this vinyl as hardly been played and as been stored for a long time. There are no scratches that I can see, and no clicks just a bit of static here and there and a couple of pops on side two, A NICE COPY!

Labels are clean & bright with no spider marks, no spindle ware.

Cover is of a gatefold foldout plain brown cardboard type and is in beautiful condition with just a little bit of storage mark on the back and as a little stain mark on front corner but over all very nice and with a strong and solid spine (which is still intact), and for 40 years old not bad considering its age, Inner sleeve is still intact.

Album comes complete with all inserts including poster!

Please check my photos to see for yourself. Please bid with confidence as I do have a returns policy if you are in any way dissatisfied with goods supplied.

ALBUM WILL BE SENT IN RECORD MAILER WITH THREE OR FOUR CARDBOARD STIFFENERS AND POLY SLEEVE. I ONLY DESPATCH WEEKDAYS! (NOT WEEKENDS) AND SEND 1ST CLASS RECORDED DELIVERY AFTER PAYMENT RECEIVED. WILL GIVE POSTAGE DISCOUNT ON ALL MULTIPLE PURCHASES.

I have tried to give my honest opinion describing the condition of the item listed and will endeavour to resolve any issues you may have, but will always give refund if you are in anyway not satisfied with the product Supplied!