Queen - A Day At The Races LP album, first UK pressing, excellent
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Queen - A Day At The Races LP album, 1976, EMTC 104, stereo, first UK pressing. Garrod and Lofthouse gatefold cover and inner sleeve. Matrix codes, side 1: YAX 5245-1U STERLING (stamped). Side 2: YAX 5246-1U STERLING (stamped).
Gatefold cover in excellent condition, see photos. Some ring wear showing on inside cover. Spine in excellent condition, fully legible.
Record in printed inner sleeve.
Record and both labels in excellent condition, just the faintest of spindle marks on both sides. Record plays perfectly flat and with some light surface noise and pops between tracks.
The record will be packed and posted very well protected. I have been buying and treasuring LP records for about 40 years now so I do my best to make sure every LP arrives in the condition it left me.
I will be listing other Queen albums shortly. Any questions please ask. Note I will not post to the Russian Federation.
Queen’s fifth studio album, was recorded at Sarm East, The Manor and Wessex Studios between July and November 1976. It was the first to be self-produced - the preceding four LPs were co-produced with Roy Thomas Baker (and John Anthony on Queen) – and was engineered by Mike Stone.
The album followed its predecessor A Night At The Opera in taking its name from a film by the Marx Brothers It was released on December 10th 1976 and peaked at No 1 in the UK, Japan and the Netherlands. In America, issued a week later, it reached No 5 on the US Billboard album chart and became Queen's first American album to achieve Gold status – and subsequently Platinum.
Like A Night At The Opera – which many think of as its sister album - A Day At The Races is greatly diverse on all levels, exploring all kinds of musical styles and genres; from the heavy Tie Your Mother Down and White Man, to Freddie’s delicate You Take My Breath Away and John Deacon’s You And I. It has been stated many times over the years, by Brian and Roger mostly, that the band saw this album more a less a continuation of the previous LP. Indeed, so much so, that the two might even have been released simultaneously. A Day At The Races finds Queen during a highly inventive and motivated period. All four members are writing and creating at a furious rate and within four months they produce several of their most acclaimed recordings, best loved singles, and, in the minds of many, one of their finest and most complete albums. The artwork for the album was similar to the A Night At The Opera album but in a contrasting black, with a new depiction of the Queen crest on the cover.
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