IRON MAIDEN-1ST Ten Years Box Set VG/EX

	£		54
	$		72

Welcome to another Oakley Boys auction featuring the weird and the wonderful, the classic and the rare.

This is for the Iron Maiden's celebratory 'First Ten Years Double 12" EP Collection'. Also released as a CD collection the vinyl is proving to be the more popular as the last copy on Ebay a few days ago went for an incredible £250! The double 12" EP's were released over a period of ten weeks and when the final one was released you could send away for the exclusive box.

There is a story behind this collection as I used to sell records back in the early 90's and this is part of a collection of a friend of mine who gave me his collection in return for putting them on to CD. He had built up his collection by purchasing several of them from me and then carefuly put them away. I have a sneaky feeling to be honest that I was probably the first to play these records when I put the songs on to CD for him last year!

 This copy is as follows:-

Box:- Intact and complete but has scuff marks around the edges which it is prone to.

Covers:- Absolutely perfect every one

The vinyls are ALL excellent and as I said earlier I was probably the first one to play them last year and then I have only ever played them once. 

The song collection is of course almost a complete history of their most famous tracks. I am not going to waste my time listing all of them as, if you are fan, then you know what they are!

UP THE IRONS!

I will only send by 'signed-for' if the winner is outside of the UK and I will only accept Paypal for non UK purchasers. Please ask for costs abroad.

Passion for music and records

Quick background

Infants school 1960 aged 6 other kids sung nursery rhymes to teacher, I sung Living Doll. Aged 10 first electric guitar and lessons 10/- each. Failed miserably. Also aged 10-12 Dad took me to East Ham Granada for Pop music tours, saw Roy Orbison twice and Stevie Wonder twice. Missed the Beatles ( I think but not sure now as I understand that they supported Roy Orbison!) but saw the Stones-could not hear them though ‘cos of the screaming!. Through my Dad I met Glen Mason and Ronnie Carroll and got their autographs- now sadly lost. Got Cliff Richards autograph at the Palladium when he was Buttons in Cinderella. (Yeah lost that as well!?) First record (I’mThe) Lonely One by Cliff Richard,. Started collecting singles aged 14, got a few demo's from my local youth club, including Shadows and Reflections by Action, for nothing. Started going to free concerts Parliament Hill Fields and Hyde Park ( Blind Faith, Pink Floyd (echoes), Grand Funk Railroad < I taped all the Humble Pie Concert and still have my copy of it>, Stones) (bear in mind I was a Skinhead at the time!). Missed my hero Jimi Hendrix and played Epitaph by King Crimson the day he died- the saddest and most fitting song I know. Started going to paying concerts again, Groundhogs,  Oval and first Charlton concerts, David Bowie,  Zeppelin, Faces (x4) Hawkwind (x4), Man, Brinsley Shwartz, Home, Atomic Rooster, Roxy Music, Ten Years After, ELP, Focus, Who ( x4), Santana, Uriah Heep (Best live concert at the rainbow EVER!) Chuck Berry, Babe Ruth, Heavy Metal Kids, Stray, Hackensack, Elton John at Watford with Rod Stewart and supported by Nazareth., Curved Air, Home, Reggae Meets Soul tour and some others lost in the mists of time. Had tickets for Zeppelin in the Midlands, couldn't make it and threw tickets away! saw them at Ally Pally. Resold Zep's Live at Blueberry Hill DLP for £4 each after buying wholesale for £2.50. Bought Bolan's 'The Wizard' for 10p mint from a Chemist down Fleet St. Bought Led Zep's Whole Lotta Love UK from a friend at work for 50p. Intensified singles collecting and some LP's. Started collecting Harvest singles ( down to last 8 now-oh and don’t believe the bulls**t from ‘experts’ that demo’s are rarer, the non-hit singles are EASIER to find as demo’s). Got Married (seen David Essex 14 times at least now! Oh and three autographs, two of his own ‘60’s acetates AND a picture with the wife!), sold Marc for £10 to Vintage Record Centre and 5 Tyrannosaurus Rex singles (not demo's) for another £10. Kids caused a very quiet period but did manage to get D'yer Maker and Communications Breakdown. Opened Market stall selling records (unsuccessfully really) ended up selling two Zep singles to Japan for £90 each. D'yer Maker got nicked off of my stall. Gradual build up of records since and, thanks to Ebay and Record Collector, a vast increase in knowledge. Sold Loads of records to Vinyl Experience. Met some great people along the line as well.-salutations to Setsuko in Japan, Steve P in Wales, Brian, Chris, Mark, and Jes from Harwich and Dovercourt.and many, many others including all my customers. Oh and two fingers to the people that nicked my records, Ebay dealers that put incorrect photographs of items being sold and describe records as mint-with marks and paw prints, sell Jimi Hendrix ‘Signatures’ on records that came out after he died and people that claim to have posted a record which doesn’t turn up then don’t even chase the Post Office for a refund!-you know who you are!