LED ZEPPELIN, IV plum Atlantic PORKY A3/B4 upside feather/Misty Mtn 'Top' UK LP

$

118

Led Zeppelin?– Untitled Label: Atlantic ?– Deluxe 2401 012 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold Sleeve Country: UK Released: 08 Nov 1971 Genre: Rock Style: Classic Rock TracklistHide Credits? A1 Black Dog 4:55 A2 Rock And Roll 3:40 A3 The Battle Of Evermore Vocals – Sandy Denny 5:38 A4 Stairway To Heaven 7:55 B1 Misty Mountain Hop 4:39 B2 Four Sticks 4:49 B3 Going To California 3:36 B4 When The Levee Breaks 7:08 Credits? Producer– Jimmy Page Notes? 'Plum' Atlantic pressing on red/white/plum label. This is the 5th (of 6) known 'plum' label variants. Specific to this label variant are: 'Marketed by Polydor Records Limited' at 6 o'clock on labels. 'Under license from Atlantic Recording Corp.' in white area under ATLANTIC on left side. LED ZEPPELIN is printed above spindle hole, the same as Variation 4, whereas Variation 3 had the band name on a printed label in smaller type-face, and Variations 1 and 2 had the band name printed below the spindle hole in the 'plum' section. Catalogue number at 3 o'clock above circular Atlantic logo reads 'deluxe 2401012' There is no Peter Grant credit, and song publishing credits are: Kinney Music Ltd./Superhype Music Inc. Side 2 has the following errors: 'Misty Mountain Hop' is mispelt 'Misty Mountain Top'. The feather at 2 o'clock is upside down. This upside down feather is specific to this label variant and the very first label only, as it was corrected on Variants 2 through 4, but turns up again on this Variant 5, and is corrected again on Variant 6 which is the last pressing on the 'plum' label. Sleeve is a gatefold, thick card with sealed left side edge when opened up to reveal 'The Hermit' drawing. Disc is housed in a grey card sleeve with credits on one side and the lyrics to 'Stairway to Heaven' on the other. Importantly, although Jimmy Page had got all the 'Executive Producer Peter Grant' credits removed from the labels by this time, the card inner sleeve still retains this credit at the bottom left side. These card inners all have over-seal type flaps on the left and right sides.

Above information from Discogs website.

UK EARLY GEORGE PECKHAM MASTERED PLUM ATLANTIC LABEL VINYL LP IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL GREY CARD INNER SLEEVE.

This particular copy is the Porky original mastered pressing, the B3 and B4 matrix numbers appear to be identical - we have played them both and could not detect any noticeable differences. What does vary is that there are 6 currently known label Variants with various typos and credits changed. The copy we are offering is the seldom seen 5th Variation with the mispelt 'Misty Mountain Top' and the upside down feather on Side 2 - see full info above for exact details relating to this copy.

MATRIX NUMBERS IN RUN-OFF GROOVES: SIDE A: PECKO DUCK 2401012 ** A//3 1 2 10 / SIDE B: PORKY 2401012 B//4 1 1 1 1

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD ONLY DUE TO SHELF AND EDGE WEAR, CORNER BUMPS AND PRICE STICKER TEAR ON FRONT. INNER SLEEVE IS GOOD ONLY - FOR SOME REASON IT WAS COVERED IN SELLOTAPE, WHICH HAD DRIED OUT - WE HAVE REMOVED THAT WITHOUT DAMAGE BUT IT HAS LEFT A CRINKLY LOOK AND STAIN MARKS - ALL CREDITS AND LYRICS ARE READABLE THOUGH.

DISC: VISUALLY A VERY GOOD+ THAT PLAYS MOSTLY EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES AND ONLY MINOR SPINDLE WEAR, BUT THERE ARE LIGHT SCUFFS AND HAIRLINES. CLEAN LABELS BOTH SIDES. A SPLENDID PLAYING COPY WITH SUPERB AUDIO, NO SKIPS OR JUMPS AND ONLY THE ODD POP OR CRACKLE RIGHT AT THE START OF EACH SIDE AND IN A FEW OF THE QUIETEST PASSAGES.

Your shipping and handling pays for the following standard of service:

We ship the next working day after your payment is received. International Air Mail Small Packets take an average of 10-14 days to arrive, but please allow at least 21-28 days for your package to clear customs (South America, Canada and some other countries have notably slower customs clearance than others). Sadly, our experience shows that it can now take 7-14 days for tracked packages to be delivered in the UK, although 3-5 days is the average. LPs are shipped in professional, fluted card mailers with printed address labels and all relevant customs and tracking information attached. We appreciate payment within 5 days of the auction closing. Paypal requires sellers to prove delivery in the event of non-receipt claims and to have uploaded tracking information onto eBay, so regrettably we now only ship by Signed For/Tracked delivery if you choose to pay by Paypal (except the USA subsidised shipping rate). We do accept alternative payment methods if a cheaper shipping rate is important to you, as listed below: