DAVID BOWIE Space Oddity RCA 1st Press 1E/1E Vinyl LP + Poster & Inner SUPERB
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RARE FIRST RCA VICTOR PRESSING (NOT PHILIPS).
ORIGINAL ON RCA IN UK. LSP-4813 1E/1E EARLIEST CUT.
PUBLISHING CREDITS 'TITANIC'. THIS WAS CHANGED TO 'MAINMAN' VERY SHORTLY AFTER THIS FIRST ISSUE. ANOTHER INDICATOR OF ORIGINALITY.
VINYL IS TRULY GORGEOUS. JUST ONE VERY LIGHT BLEMISH ON SIDE 2, ON DEAD WAX (RUNOUT) SO CANNOT AFFECT AUDIO. OTHER THAN THIS, NO ISSUES WHATSOEVER....
BRIGHT, CLEAN LABELS ARE FREE OF DAMAGE OR INK.
POSTER (RARE!) IN NEAR MINT CONDITION.
INNER IS VG+ DUE TO SOME CREASING AND A SMALL SPLIT ALTHOUGH FOR MANY YEARS THE DISC HAS BEEN STORED IN A NAGAOKA 102 RECORD SLEEVE, WHICH WILL REMAIN TOGETHER WITH A NEW POLY LINED SLEEVE.
COVER INTACT AND SOUND WITH ALMOST NO SIGN OF WEAR, LOOKS LIKE NEW, REALLY. IF ONE WAS VERY CRITICAL, THEN THERE IS THE VERY SLIGHTEST DISC OUTLINE BUT YOU DO HAVE TO LOOK VERY HARD TO NOTICE.
THE RECORD PLAYS EXTREMELY WELL WITH VERY MINIMAL BACKGROUND NOISE, ESPECIALLY SO WHEN YOU CONSIDER AGE. SOUND QUALITY IS AWESOME (EARLY RCA PRESSINGS SOUND GREAT!), VERY CLEAR AND DYNAMIC PLUS A BROAD STEREO IMAGE.
***A GENUINELY LOVELY, COMPLETE COPY AND WORTH EVERY PENNY OF THE ASKING PRICE***
This will come supplied with a new poly lined inner sleeve and clear album cover so will look new.
It will be packed in a quality mailer and stiffeners used appropriately with the disc safely removed from sleeve outer.
Please ask if you require further information or photographs I'm happy to help.
Combined postage a pleasure where possible. Please add to basket then request invoice for selected items.
International buyers are welcome.
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'David Bowie is the second studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released under that title by Philips in the UK, and as Man of Words/Man of Music by Mercury in the US, on 14 November 1969. It was reissued in 1972 by RCA Records as Space Oddity (the title of the opening track, which had reached No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart). Space Oddity was the name used for CD releases of the album in 1984, 1990 and 1999, but it reverted to the original, eponymous title for 2009 and 2015 reissues.
Regarding its mix of folk, balladry and prog rock, NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray have said, "Some of it belonged in '67 and some of it in '72, but in 1969 it all seemed vastly incongruous. Basically, David Bowie can be viewed in retrospect as all that Bowie had been and a little of what he would become, all jumbled up and fighting for control..."
The album came about after Bowie had made the transition from a cabaret/avant-garde-inspired musician to a hippie/folk-based sound and as such the album is a major turning point from his 1967 debut.
"Don't Sit Down", an unlisted 40-second jam heard after the album's second song on the UK Philips LP, was excluded from the US Mercury release and from the 1972 RCA reissue. The piece was included once again – and listed as an independent track – on CD releases of the album in the 1990s. The 2009 and 2015 reissues returned the piece to its original status as a hidden track.
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