ALICE COOPER BILLION DOLLAR BABIES WARNER K56013 COMPLETE EARLIEST EVER

	£		19
	$		25

FULLY COMPLETE UK 1973 UK Green Label Warner 1st Pressing (A1//B2 Matrix) 'Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper! With Original Die-Cut Embossed Gatefold Sleeve w/ Inner Band & Die Cut Window, Original Die-Cut Picture/Lyric Inner Sleeve, All 10 Photo Cards, Unique Coin Badge and Massive Folded Dollar Bill Poster!! MEGA RARE TO SEE A COPY THAT IS FULLY COMPLETE THESE DAYS!!! DO NOT MISS OUT ON THIS.

You are bidding on aN ORIGINAL 1973 Earliest Possible (A1//B2) UK 1st Pressing of Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper!!

The UK first pressing of this record is amazing, this really is an example of a 1st pressing that really gave you something extra when compared to all later pressings. It is full of intricate features and fantastic touches, housing amazing artwork and gimmix designs that were far too costly on production to be included in any of the later pressings. Only the earliest first pressings contained all the features I am about to describe.

Starting with the gatefold sleeve, only this, the 1st pressing, had the embossed outer cover with rounded corners. It has an embossed gold coin on both sides of the outer cover and the two opening edge corners are rounded off. All later sleeves did not have the embossed coin and had regular square corners. When you open up the sleeve there are many more significant differences between this and all later pressings. Firstly, on the left side you will notice the die cut window with the dollar bill background. This was designed for the picture inner sleeve to slide into, framing the either the lyrics of the picture of Cooper and band.

All later pressings do not have this window or the picture/lyric inner sleeve. The right side of the inner gatefold also has a wide strip of card which is designed to hold the large folded dollar bill poster in place. All later pressings do not have this strip or the dollar bill poster! Next up we have the 10 photo cards. All later pressings did not contain these cards, they just had printed photos on the left-sided gatefold of the cards and the coin. With the first pressing you actually got all ten cards and the coin card too. There are many more subtle features such as relocation of credits etc. (for example, only the 1st pressing has a totally credit-free outer gatefold cover. This was because there was so many additional featured on which the place the credits, thus maintaining the aesthetics of the original sleeve. All later pressing however, have the Warner credits etc printed on the back of the sleeve).

Basically, you got so much more with this 1st press than you do with all later pressings, and due to the actual production costs it was only around for a very limited time (only the earliest 1973 UK 1st pressings had these details) before being replaced with the standard no frills 2nd pressings.

Cat No:
K 56013

Matrix:

Side 1 - K 56013 A//1

Side 2 - K 56013 B//2

THESE ARE THE EARLIEST EVER MATRIX NUMBERS FOR BILLION DOLLAR BABIES!!!!

The classic 1st press green Warner centre Labels are in stunning condition with NO Tears, NO Peeling, NO Scribbles and NO unwanted writing of any kind, The gramophone rims are lovely. The vinyl itself does have many sleeve removal marks and light marks this copy has been played but is not trashed by any means.

The classic 1st press embossed gatefold sleeve has NO Scribbles and NO unwanted writing of any kind!!! It has storage wear on the spine and the upper and bottom edges and the open edge is feathered. On the inside of the gatefold there is a piece of card which is used to hold the note in place, there is some damage to the top and the bottom, it is still intact but wanted to point that out. There are two photographs to show this. 

The original inner sleeve does have a split on the bottom edge. 
The billion dollar note poster has no rips or tears or ink markings.  

As mentioned above, the LP comes with all its original removable features, 10 cards, 1 gold coin badge card, Billion Dollar Note Poster and lyric/picture inner sleeve!

DO NOT MISS OUT ON THE FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY TO OWN A FULLY COMPLETE COPY OF BILLION DOLLAR BABIES!!!!

GOOD LUCK