LED ZEPPELIN “Physical Graffiti” UK SWANSONG 1st PRESS

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  LED ZEPPELIN “Physical Graffiti” UK SWANSONG 1st PRESS Earliest A1/B4/C1/D1, NO WB LOGO, OUTSTANDING AUDIO
LED ZEPPELIN
Physical Graffiti

HERE WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT UK SWAN SONG (SSK 89400) VERY FIRST PRESSING (March 1975) OF LED ZEPPELIN'S OUTSTANDING DOUBLE LP SET "Physical Graffiti"

PRESSED ON QUALITY MID/HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL (surprisingly heavyweight for the time and much more robust than even the presses which came just a few months later) THE SET DELIVERS TREMENDOUSLY POWERFUL AUDIO
THE RECORDS HAVE THE FIRST ISSUE SWANSONG LABELS (with "Made in UK' text and no WB log)
MATRIX NUMBERS: SSK 89400 A1 / SSK 89400 B4 / SSK 89400 C1 / SSK 89400 D1 (earliest UK pressing with B4 matrix)
AND ARE HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL BOX SLEEVE
COMPLETE WITH THE TWO PICTURE INNER SLEEVES
AND GATEFOLD ‘SLIP’ INSERT (for all first issue criteria, see below)

EXCELLENT UK FIRST PRESSING OF THIS NOTORIOUSLY DIFFICULT LP TO FIND IN DECENT PLAYING CONDITION

FIRST ISSUE CRITERIA:
Front Cover: The outer cover is of a top loading ‘box’ construction of thick ridged card with the following text printed on the back, top centre:
SWAN SONG / 484 KINGS ROAD, LONDON SW10
Cullderstead Ltd., trading as Swan Song
A Swan Song/Atlantic recording distributed by WEA Records Ltd., Ⓟ & © 1975
The group name, record title and catalogue number run down the left hand side spine, viewed from the front, these are printed in RED.
Inner Slip Cover: The gatefold ‘slip’ insert is of thick card, untreated rough grey finish on the back and white printed front. The first issue examples have a double crease ‘box’ fold to allow space for the thick card inner sleeves - later issues have a much thinner insert with a single fold. The insert text credits “Gothic Print Finishers Ltd., London SE9 2EQ” as the printers, along with the Swan Song SSK 89400 catalogue number and the address “SWAN SONG, 484 KINGS ROAD, LONDON SW10”
Inner Sleeves: The Inner sleeves are printed on quite thick card with a natural untreated grey finish to the inside surfaces. They have SSK 89400/A and SSK 89400/B respectively on the back (bottom right corner) of each of the inners. Later issues were thinner card with a smooth finish to the inside.
Labels: The labels are the easiest identifying factors for an original UK 1st issue as they should be clearly marked “Made in UK” but most importantly have no small circular WB (Warner Brothers) Logo at the end of the bottom rim text. The WB logo was introduced onto the label in mid 1975 just a few months after the release, so any label with the WB logo is NOT from the very first batch of pressings

Led Zeppelin returned from a nearly two-year hiatus in 1975 with Physical Graffiti, a sprawling, ambitious double album.
Zeppelin treat many of the songs on Physical Graffiti as forays into individual styles, only occasionally synthesizing sounds, notably on the tense, Eastern-influenced "Kashmir."
With John Paul Jones' galloping keyboard, "Trampled Underfoot" ranks as their funkiest metallic grind, while "Houses of the Holy" is as effervescent as pre-Beatles pop and "Down by the Seaside" is the closest they've come to country. Even the heavier blues -- the 11-minute "In My Time of Dying," the tightly wound "Custard Pie," and the monstrous epic "The Rover" -- are subtly shaded, even if they're thunderously loud.
Most of these heavy rockers are isolated on the first album, with the second half of Physical Graffiti sounding a little like a scrap heap of experiments, jams, acoustic workouts, and neo-covers.
This may not be as consistent as the first platter, but its quirks are entirely welcome, not just because they encompass the mean, decadent "Sick Again," but the heartbreaking "Ten Years Gone" and the utterly charming acoustic rock & roll of "Boogie With Stu" and "Black Country Woman."
Yes, some of this could be labeled as filler, but like any great double album, its appeal lies in its great sprawl, since it captures elements of the band's personality rarely showcased elsewhere -- and even at its worst, Physical Graffiti towers above its hard rock peers of the mid-'70s.

Track Listing:
Side One: Custard Pie / Rover / In My Time Of Dying
Side Two: Houses Of The Holy / Trampled Underfoot / Kashmir
Side Three: In The Light / Bron-y-Aur Stomp / Down By The Seaside / Ten Years Gone
Side Four: Night Flight / Wanton Song / Boogie With Stu / Black Country Woman / Sick Again

LABELS: The record labels are SUPERB - CLEAN, BRIGHT and FRESH with NO wear, NO marks/writing and NO evident spindles
VINYLS Visual: Both records lies perfectly flat on the turntable and retain their original DEEP, GLOSSY SHEEN. The surfaces are marked (in my experience they always are) mostly from the rough inner sleeves but these marks have little audio consequence - Visually VG-EX
VINYLS Audio: The audio is OUTSTANDINGLY STRONG - CRYSTAL CLEAR, DEEP, RICH and VIBRANT SOUND. There are NO scratches, NO jumps/sticks and barely any clicks/pops or surface noise (rare for this LP which is notoriously prone to lots of excessive surface noise and clicking but the thicker, deeper cut vinyl of this very first press is more resilient to the damage caused by the inner sleeves). The sound quality here is simply SUPERB and both LPs play to a high standard with NO groove-wear and NO distortion. The set is strictly and honestly graded EXCELLENT for audio (but in my opinion, still one of the better ones you are likely to find)
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT condition with very little wear to the edges (just some corner 'bumping' and 'feathering to the top opening edge) and the die-cut windows are all intact with no rips or tears
INNER SLEEVES: EXCELLENT - CLEAN and FRESH with NO splits to any of the edges. (The LPs are now housed - and will be posted in - new inner sleeves to prevent any 'knifing' damage to the originals during transit)
INNER SLIP: The gatefold inner slip is also in EXCELLENT condition

PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT MY PICTURES - I USUALLY TAKE QUITE A FEW SO YOU CAN GET A CLEAR INDICATION OF EVERY DETAIL OF THE RECORD, SLEEVE AND INNER
I HAVE UPLOADED AS MANY PICTURES AS I CAN BUT I WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO SUPPLY ANY ADDITIONAL PHOTOS ON REQUEST
EXCELLENT *COMPLETE* EARLIEST UK FIRST PRESSING OF A TREMENDOUS SET
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