LED ZEPPELIN S/T SAME DEBUT LP UK ORIG 1969 TURQUOISE SLEEVE RARE ROCK PSYCH
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Description
Item :
LED ZEPPELIN ~ LED ZEPPELIN LP
Original 1969 U.K. first issue stereo pressing released on the plum & orange Atlantic label 588171.
Description :
Super rare first issue pressing with the turquoise lettering sleeve and Superhype Music credit on the labels.
Led Zeppelin is the debut album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was recorded in October 1968 at Olympic Studios in London and released on Atlantic Records on 12 January 1969 in the United States and 31 March 1969 in the United Kingdom. The album featured integral contributions from each of the group's four musicians and established Led Zeppelin's fusion of blues and rock. Led Zeppelin also created a large and devoted following for the band, with their take on the emerging heavy metal sound endearing them to a section of the counterculture on both sides of the Atlantic.
Although the album initially received negative reviews, it was commercially very successful and has now come to be regarded in a much more positive light by critics. In 2003, the album was ranked number 29 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. When Rolling Stone updated the list in 2012 the album remained ranked at 29th greatest of all time.
Led Zeppelin's front cover, which was chosen by Page, features a black-and-white image of the burning Hindenburg airship. The image refers to the origin of the band's name itself: when Page, Jeff Beck and The Who's Keith Moon and John Entwistle were discussing the idea of forming a group, Moon joked, "It would probably go over like a lead balloon", and Entwistle allegedly replied, "...a lead zeppelin!"
The album's back cover features a photograph of the band taken by former Yardbird Chris Dreja. The entire design of the album's sleeve was coordinated by George Hardie, with whom the band would continue to collaborate for future sleeves.
Hardie recalled that he originally offered the band a design based on an old club sign in San Francisco, a multi-sequential image of a phallic zeppelin airship up in the clouds. Page declined but it was retained as the logo for the back cover of Led Zeppelin's first two albums and a number of early press advertisements. During the first few weeks of release in the UK, the sleeve featured the band's name and the Atlantic logo in turquoise. When this was switched to the now-common orange print later in the year, the turquoise-printed sleeve became a collector's item.
Condition ~ Vinyl :
Side one of the vinyl is in VG++ condition. It would be NEAR MINT except for an entirely non-audible surface hairline across part of the side. Plays superbly throughout with virtually no background noise at all.
Side two is in EXCELLENT condition with just a couple of small nicks on one track which are non-audible. Plays superbly throughout.
Condition ~ Sleeve :
The classic striking turquoise lettering laminated sleeve is in overall decent shape with just some faint tape residue along the spine which with a little patience is probably removeable. There is also some tape stains on the inside of the opening edge from where tape was previously applied but has since been removed. Overall I would say the sleeve is in VG++ condition.
Condition ~ Labels :
Both labels are nice and clean. No writing. Just a few light spindle marks.
Matrix Numbers :
Earliest possible !!!
Side one : 588171 A#1
Side two : 588171 B#1
Miscellaneous :
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