DAVID BOWIE TMWSTW Dress cover ORIGINAL Penny ST NO RES
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Description
THE DRESS / DRAG COVER.
This is an ORIGINAL 1971 English release of Bowie`s masterpiece THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD on the MERCURY record label.
This dress cover sleeve is in great condition front and back are bright and clean and I would grade it VG + .
The spine Is in very acceptable condition.
The record has some hairlines but it plays fine so I would grade the record as Very Good ++ .
There is a little edgeware , no wringware , The back of the LP sleeve is also really clean .
Heres proof that this great piece is the real thing and not one of the two forgerys that exist .
1)The counterfeit has a sheeny texture to it , the original has a matt texture which is more defined . The colours on the counterfeit are much paler like the EMI/Rycodisc who amazingly used the fake for their artwork !
2)The clock on the right side of the sleeve is hardly there on the counterfeit and the original more than half the clock is there , this is the usual method in telling the two apart .
3)The counterfeits back cover is very pale , again the original has a much more defined grey.
4) On the fake Bowies foot goes right to the edge of the sleeve on the original theres a centimetre or more sleeve.
5)The inner sleeve is white on the forgery and grey on the original and im talking about the ACTUAL sleeve (not the paper inner sleeve).
6)The label on the counterfeit is a lighter shade of black than the original and the typeset is taller and thinner than the original , it also has a circled `R` instead of the propper `P`, other than that its a very good effort.
7)The matrix on the runout groove is larger on the fake not so well stamped and omits 420 from the numbers and faces the label rather than pointing away from it as on the original.
8)The spine has Mercury, title and cat number running from right to left on the counterfeit whereas on the original its left to right (this is if you hold the cover face up!).
So rest assured this is THE REAL THING .
If you require any more info or pictures dont hessitate to ask .
I get asked about the Tonny Tony issue more than anything else re this item.
I asked Tony Visconti about this only last year and here is what he said.
There was only ever a single pressing of this record .Record companies only do second pressings if demand is very strong and as you all know this LP sold badly so there was no need to start the huge and costly record pressing machines.
In 1970 white label promos did not exist in England so Philips Mercury sent issue copies to the producers + band members so they could see the finished product for themselves.
As Visconti told me , he mentioned it to an executive the day he recieved his copy and thought no more about it ."Back then , I was a nobody and treated as such".
To Tony`s amazement Mercury put it right and corrected some labels .
There was one record press but two labels were printed .Ive sold 26 of these over the years and the Tonny Tony thing seams to me to be 50/50 , who knows .
The Woodmansley mistake was never corrected , its much too expensive to correct record sleeves no matter how small the numbers , so all sleeves bare the Woodmansley mistake .
Its my own opinion that Mercury corrected it because they knew Bowie thought Philips/Mercury were quite a tacky label . After all they had already made a huge mistake on Davids previous LP called DAVID BOWIE .
Calling the drawings on the back of the LP the Depth of a Circle instead of its real title The Width of a Circle !
Have a look at my other auctions its up for sale also.
So the Dress cover ,One pressing Two sets of labels.
Anything else
Just Ask.
On 13-Feb-07 at 16:06:44 GMT, seller added the following information: Please have a look at my other Bowie items.
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