The Who Tommy (Incredibly rare original 1969 UK 1st Pressing Limited Edition LP)
£
129
$
170
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
Artist & Title: The Who - Tommy : Limited edition double LP
The Who's 'Tommy'. Incredibly rare original 1969 UK 1st pressing two LP album also including the large format photo booklet printed with limited edition number 71697, containing lyrics and images to illustrate parts of the story, which was never sold separately, all housed in a superb laminated outer Ernest J. Day picture triptych-style fold-out cover with 'Patents Pending' lettering.
Catalogue Number: Track Record 613 013/4
Release date: 1969
Overall Grade: EX+/EX (Discs are near mint)
Pressing: First UK Limited Edition
UK First press. The records and sleeve are immaculate for their age, (with only the usual patina of 40+ years). The included booklet is also in Excellent condition. See pics. All items are the genuine originals bought together as a set in 1969 (not the reprints often supplied to complete the set). The LPs are the original issue 24-track LPs on the Track Record label (Not Polydor or Decca).
Examples of this numbered, limited edition, UK first pressing, double album are almost never offered for sale in ANY condition.
A fantastic time warp copy of this rarity in amazing condition, a true investment grade item - get it while you can!
Tommy is the fourth album by English rock band The Who, released by Track Records and Polydor Records in the United Kingdom and Decca Records/MCA in the United States. A double album telling a loose story about a "deaf, dumb and blind boy" who becomes the leader of a messianic movement, Tommy was the first musical work to be billed overtly as a rock opera. Released in 1969, the album was mostly composed by Pete Townshend. In 1998 it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant value". It has sold over 20 million copies worldwide.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 96 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album was ranked number 90 on VH1's 100 Greatest Albums of Rock & Roll and appears in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. NME named it the 16th on "NME Writers All Time Top 100" in 1974. Q ranked it 9th on their list of "The Music That Changed The World: Part One 1954–1969" in 2004. Upon its release in 1969, Life declared, "For sheer power, invention and brilliance of performance, Tommy outstrips anything that has ever come out of a rock recording studio.
Tommy was originally released as a two-LP set with a booklet including lyrics and images to illustrate parts of the story. The cover is presented as part of a triptych-style fold-out cover. All three of the outer panels of the triptych are spanned by a single pop art painting by Mike McInnerney. The drawing is a sphere with diamond-shaped cutouts and an overlay of clouds and seagulls rendered with a figure-ground ambiguity. To one side a star-spangled hand bursts from the dark background, index finger pointing forward. In the U.K. the Tommy album was first issued as a numbered limited edition ONLY before going on general release. This is one of those numbered limited edition albums in near mint condition.
THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF THIS UNIQUE ALBUM EVER OFFERED FOR SALE ON EBAY
AND IT MUST SELL IN THIS ONCE ONLY AUCTION
Check out my other items!
price rating
![Ready to Die [LP] by The Notorious B.I.G. (Vinyl, 9/2013, 2 Discs, Atlantic) NM](https://www.popsike.org/php/thumbnail.php?url=https://www.popsike.pics/pix/20170928/322789341428.jpg)
