FREDDIE MERCURY / QUEEN / LARRY LUREX - MEAG RARE

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YOU ARE BIDDING ON THE ULTIMATE QUEEN / FREEDIE MERCURY RARITY!! BACKGROUND TO THE RECORD THE SINGLE 'LARRY LUREX' WAS RECORDED IN 1972, AND FEATURES FREDDIE ON VOCALS, BRIAN AND ROGER FROM QUEEN ON PERCUSSION AND GUITARS, BUT NO JOHN DEACON.

THE RECORD WAS RECORDED BY QUEEN'S 1ST ENGINEER, ROBIN CABLE, WHO WAS RECORDING AN OLD BEACH BOYS SONG CALLED ' I CAN HEAR MUSIC', WHICH WAS CO-WRIITEN BY PHIL SPECTOR AND BARRY. RECORDED VERY MUCH IN THE STYLE OF PHIL SPECTORS 'WALL OF SOUND', THIS AS FAR REMOVED FROM QUEEN'S HEAVY PROGRESSIVE ROCK OF THEIR 1973 AS YOU COULD GET!! THE B-SDE FEATURES ANOTHER CLASSIC BY GOFFIN AND KING CALLED 'GOIN' BACK'. ROBIN CABLE ABSOLUTELY LOVED THE SONGS AND PESTERED THE BANDS MANAGEMENT 'TRIDENT' TO RELEASE THE RECORD VIA QUEEN'S UK LABEL, EMI RECORDS. THE RECORD WAS NOT RELEASED UNTIL 1973, ( THIS MEGA RARE DEMO COPY FEATURES THE RELEASE DATE 1/6/73), AND SO AS NOT TO CONFUSE THE FANBASE, AND AS A SPOOF ON THE THEN HUGELY POPULAR GLAM ROCKER 'GARY GLITTER', THEY RELEASED IT AS 'LARRY LUREX'!! THIS RECORD SIMPLY SANK WITHOUT A TRACE, AND THIS ONE HAS LAID IN A DJ'S COLLECTION, MOST PROBABLY COMPLETELY UNPLAYED!!

WITHOUT DOUBT THE RAREST OFFICIAL UK RELEASE, AND EVEN BETTER, THIS IS A DEMO COPY THAT EMI PRINTED ABOUT 250 COPIES FOR!! IT IS THAT RARE, THE STOCK COPY SANK WITHOUT A TRACE SELLING A FEW THOUSAND COPIES NO DOUBT IN CHEAP 'DUMP BINS', WELL THIS IS EVEN RARER!!

RELEASE DATE - 1973

RELEASE LABEL - EMI RECORDS

PRESSING LOCATION - UK PRESSING

RELEASE NUMBER - EMI 2030

COVER CONDITION - THE RELEASE CAME IN THE STANDARD UK EMI DIE-CUT SLEEVE, WHICH IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, WITH NO RIPS OR TEARS AND NO WRITING...ONLY MINIMAL CREASING!!

RECORD PROVENANCE - THERE ARE LOTS OF 'REISSUES' OUT THERE ON EBAY, WITH PEOPLE CLAIMING THAT THEY ARE GENUINE UK 1ST PRESSES, WELL THEY ARE NOT!! GENUINE LARRY LUREX, ( ESPECIALLY DEMO COPIES) ARE AS RARE AS ROCKINGHORSE SH*T, AND THIS IS HOW YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE!!

PUSH OUT CENTRE - THIS IS VERY HARD TO REPLICATE AS A BOOTLEG, AND ONLY GENUINE COPIES HAVE THE STANDARD EMI 'PUSHOUT' CENTRE FOR JUKE BOXES!

SERRATED EDGE - JUST AROUND THE EDGE OF THE EMI RECORD LABEL , THE GENUINE COPY HAS A LARGE 'SERATED ( RAISED AND BUMPY) EDGE TO STOP THE RECORD SLIPPING ON THE TUNRTABLE, THE BOOTLEG DOES NOT HAVE THIS, SIMPLY A SMOOTH SURFACE!!

MATRIX - ONLY THE GENUINE COPY WILL HAVE THIS MATRIX NUMBER SIDE ONE - STAMPED EMI 2030 A-1U R KT, SCRATCHED PYRANH.BYRAY'. SIDE TWO - STAMPED EMI 2030 B-1U KT

RECORD CONDITION:-

LABEL SIDE ONE - EXCELLENT ++++CONDITION, WITH ZERO SPINDLE MARKS!! THE CORRECT LABEL HAS THE DATE 1.6.73 STAMPED IN INK WITHIN THE PUSHOUT CENTRE, WITH 'DEMO RECORD NOT FOR RESALE' BELOW IT!! THE LABEL HAS A VERY TIDY DJ LABEL STUCK ACROSS THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE EMI LABEL, BUT THIS DOES NOT DETRACT FROM THE QUALITY AND THE RARITY OF THIS ITEM!!

LABEL SIDE TWO - AS PER SIDE ONE, AND ABSOLUTELY SPOTLESS WITH ONE SPINDLE MARK!! RECORD SIDE ONE - RECORD IS VISUALLY GRADED EXCELLENT+++, AND VISUALLY IMMACULATE!! IT IS CLEAR THAT THIS RECORD HAS ONLY EVER HAD ONE PLAY IN ITS THIRTY SIX YEAR LIFE!!

RECORD SIDE TWO - EXCELLENT CONDITION, WITH A TINY AMOUNT OF SCUFFING, ( NOT DOUBT FROM STORAGE) AT '4 O'CLOCK' VERSUS THE RECORD LABEL ON THE VERY OUTER EDGE. TINY SCUFFING IS NON-SOUNDING....

PLAYGRADE SIDE ONE - SPOTLESS, IMMACULATE, AND A CLASSIC FREEDIE VOCAL AND DELIVERY!! ONLY THE TINYEST BACKGROUND NOISE, IF ANY AT ALL!!

PLAYGRADE SIDE TWO - SOME MINOR STATIC AND CRACKLING ( MOST PROBABALY A TINY AMOUNT OF STATIC) FOR THE LEAD IN'S AND LEAD OUTS OF THE RECORD, BUT STILL PLAYS TO A MINIMUM EXCELLENT GRADING!!

SO THERE YOU HAVE IT - YET ANOTHER CLASSIC AND VERY RARE FOR THE ULTIMATE QUEEN FAN!! TREAT YOURSELF TO AN EARLY XMAS PRESENT!!