ROY HARPER The Unknown Soldier LP 1ST UK PRESS 1980 HARVEST SUPERB

	£		20
	$		26

ROY HARPER
"THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER"

Roy Harper's 10th studio album first released 1980 by Harvest Records his last LP for Harvest. 

Kate Bush accompanies Harper on the song "You" to great effect. The song "Short and Sweet" features David Gilmour of Pink Floyd on guitar which is also to be found on Gilmour's first solo album. In fact, Gilmour plays guitar on most of the songs and co-wrote five of the album's ten songs, Harper providing the lyrics and Gilmour the music.

Interesting Quote From Roy Harper about ''Unknown Soldier''
Perhaps the most remarkable moment in the history of the making of this record was the trip I made with Adrian Boot, later to photograph Bob Marley so completely, to the battlefield at Verdun in France to take the pictures for the sleeve. Pete had just read a book called- 'The Price Of Glory' Verdun 1916, by Alistair Horne, and he suggested Verdun as an idea. I seized on the idea immediately and Adrian and I were soon disembarking at Boulogne in an undrivable hired Rover with an arse-end three miles in the air and a steering wheel on the wrong side. We hurtled down France for half a day surviving a period where it rained cats and dogs and at the end of which we walked, stoned and soaked, into a Pension and I asked for a room for the night in my schoolboy French. "Avez vous une chambre ce soir....... etc. And a lizard woman looked us up and down.

What we saw the following day brought me to tears on a few occasions. A sea of graves, surmounted by a monument the like of which I'd never seen anywhere. In style, it is pure art deco, in deference it is Egyptian, and in effect it is devastating. And it is full of the bones of hundreds of thousands of men; visible through the windows of the basement around the building. We took the pictures, even though it seemed like a sacrilege. And isn't that the nature of our beast?: a very certain irreverence may seem to help with the wisdom. The pathos is deep and beckoning. Guilt barbs the understanding. And there was too much to try to understand. And down the hill on all sides seemed to disappear into a distant desert of excuses. I can't remember the journey home, except for its silence.

SIDE 1

Playing Games
I'm in Love With You
The Flycatcher
You
Old Faces

SIDE 2

Short & Sweet
First Thing In The Morning
The Unknown Soldier
Ten Years Ago
True Story

THIS IS QUITE SIMPLY A STUNNING VERSION OF THIS LANDMARK LP!

A lovely UK Original 1st Pressing copy of Roy Harper's ''Unknown Soldier'' LP.

ROY HARPER: "UNKNOWN SOLDIER" LP
1ST UK PRESSING 1980
HARVEST SHVL 820
MATRIX: SHVL 820 A-1 / SHVL 820 B-4
The record itself has probably been played only once since new. No spindle marks to Side 1 & just one that I can see to Side 2. 
LP IS GRADED MINT/MINT-

ORIGINAL SINGLE NON-LAMINATED BLACK & WHITE COVER
Perfect other than just light creasing minor indentations and 1 small scuff to front.
COVER IS GRADED EXCELLENT++++/MINT-

ORIGINAL CARDBOARD LYRIC INNER SLEEVE
Features colour map of Verdun France to one side & lyrics on reverse.
INNER SLEEVE IS GRADED MINT/MINT-

There are no scribbles, price stickers or shop stamps anywhere to be found on this LP, Cover or Inner Sleeve.

IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!

Will be supplied with Heavyweight Plastic Sleeve for the  Cover in which I will place the original sleeve and the LP will be packed out of the cover in new clean white inner sleeve and a new cardboard outer sleeve and then placed in a polythene cover to protect your investment and mailed in a Professional Mailer surrounded by heavy-duty cardboard to ensure it arrives with you in the same condition as it leaves me.

SHIPPING INFORMATION

UK SHIPPING
UP TO THE VALUE OF £41 FIRST CLASS RECORDED £4.00
OVER THE VALUE OF £41 NEXT DAY SPECIAL DELIVERY £8.00

EUROPE
INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR £12.00

REST OF THE WORLD
INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR £18.00

IN THE EVENT OF YOU WINNING MORE THAN ONE ITEM I WILL NOTIFY YOU OF COMBINED SHIPPING POST AUCTION END.
PLEASE BE ASSURED THAT THIS WILL BE NO MORE THAN MY ACTUAL COSTS.

GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR BIDDING!

From my own personal collection assembled over 25+ years with constant upgrading whenever available so this is a unique opportunity to acquire a pristine example of  a RARE and COLLECTIBLE LP that has been lovingly cared for. 

All LP covers were stored in the highest quality plastic sleeves and the records stored in separate archival white inners out of the cover to prevent damage to the original sleeves and ring wear of the record through to the original cover.

Lots of rarities will be listed over the coming weeks and you will be hard pressed to improve on these as I was relentless in the pursuit of the finest examples at whatever cost!!!!!

THIS IS A REAL ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY. ONCE THEY'RE GONE, THEY'RE GONE!!