MANIC STREET PREACHERS SUICIDE ALLEY 7” + LETTER & POETRY
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ORIGINAL COPY OF MANIC STREET PREACHERS ULTRA RARE ‘SUICIDE ALLEY’ 7” WITH PICTURE SLEEVE + 3 HAND-TYPED A4 SHEETS CONTAINING LETTERS AND POETRY!
BACKGROUND:
PRODUCED IN 1988 AND LIMITED TO 200 COPIES ONLY (THOSE WITH PICTURE SLEEVE), THIS RECORD HAS GAINED UNPARALLELED STATUS IN THE MANICS’ CATALOGUE FOR ITS RARITY – NOT ONLY BECAUSE THE BAND ARE DOCUMENTED AS HAVING PERSONALLY GLUED THE SLEEVES TOGETHER BUT ALSO THAT PRIOR TO DISTRIBUTION THEY WERE APPARENTLY KEPT UNDER JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD’S BED!!!
HOWEVER, THIS EXAMPLE HAS ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANCE IN THAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY SENT BY THE BAND TO LINK RECORDS - THE LABEL WHICH THEN INCLUDED THE SINGLE ON ITS ‘UNDERGROUND ROCKERS’ COMPILATION L.P…
INCLUDED WITH THE RECORD ARE 3 SHEETS OF PAPER:
1 – A LETTER PROMOTING THE BAND AND THE RELEASE: Addressed ‘Dear Link’ and sent from ‘The Manic Street Preachers’ with James and Sean’s home address and telephone number! (In black ink) Excerpt: ‘WE SING WHAT MATTERS… THE IMPLOSION OF THE WRKING CLASSES, THE DECREASEMENT OF THE WORKING MANS LEGITIMATE POWER’(!)
2 – A 2-SIDED POEM/MISSIVE: ‘SOLICITUDE IN BLUE’: Type-signed ‘Rusty Jones… December Fourteenth 1988’ (In red ink) Excerpt: ‘A GREY MIST, A TORN HEART, CLAPPING IN THE SCHOOLHALL DOESN’T MAKE IT ALRIGHT’...
3 – A POEM: ‘BANK ACCOUNT REALITY’: Type-signed ‘Manic Street Preachers 89’ (In red ink) Excerpt: ‘TREADMILL HOUSE OF COMMONS FORCE FED ME SLUTS… I’VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU… REPRESSION IS A SYSTEM’(!)
SPECIFICATION:
VINYL:
CONDITION: V.G. (UNPLAYED SINCE IN MY POSSESSION SO UNABLE TO VERIFY, HOWEVER, PREVIOUSLY SOLD BY REPUTABLE DEALER TO THIS END)
MATRIX NO’S: SIDE A: SBS 002 A-1 SW / SIDE B: SBS 002 B-1 SW
COMMENTS: MATRIX NUMBERING CONSISTENT WITH ORIGINAL PRESSING
SLEEVE:
CONDITION: V.G. (SIGNS OF RINGWEAR TO REAR AND CREASES TO SPINE – CONSISTENT WITH INDIE QUALITY PRODUCTION)
COMMENTS: CLEARLY AN ORIGINAL COPY – NO UNDERLINING TO THE TITLE OR NUMBERING ON THE REAR WHICH IS FOUND ON THE 2003 RE-PRESS
DOCUMENTS:
THE PAPER, OF COURSE, BEING SOME 25 YEARS OLD HAS SOME YELLOWING CONSISTENT WITH ITS AGE. THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THESE DOCUMENTS ARE ORIGINAL - OR AT LEAST IT IS CLEAR THAT THEY HAVE BEEN HAND-TYPED AND NOT PHOTOCOPIED (GIVEN THE INDENTATIONS ON THE REVERSE OF THE PAPER!) NOR COMPUTER GENERATED.
GENERAL COMMENTS:
THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO GET YOUR HANDS ON A TRUE MANICS RARITY – BOTH IN TERMS OF THE VINYL AND THE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS… IN MANY YEARS OF COLLECTING MANICS MEMORIBILIA I HAVE SEEN VERY FEW OF THEIR ORIGINAL, FABLED LETTERS COME TO THE MARKET!
PLEASE GET IN TOUCH IF YOU REQUIRE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION OR IMAGES & I WILL DO MY BEST TO RESPOND WITHOUT DELAY.
RETURNS SHALL ONLY BE ACCEPTED WHERE AN ITEM IS MISREPRESENTED OR MISDESCRIBED.
***INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE COSTS TO BE CONFIRMED BEFORE PAYMENT***
Thank you.
