BLACK SABBATH ORIGINAL 1970 1ST PRESSING MINT CONDITION
£
37
$
48
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Description
This original release is somewhat rare. It is done on double LP sleeve, with the left sleeve glued up. Inside, the background is black. On the left hand side are the words Black Sabbath (the Sabbath spills over on to the right sleeve.) On the right sleeve is an inverted cross. On the inside of the cross is a short poem that appears below. It has the Vertigo swirl on the label and on the record dust sheet.
This is an original - it was purchased my me on the release date 13th Feb 1970. (a friday!)
That makes it 37 years old ( and me considerably older!). I have played itoccassionally, but it has always been kept in a thick plastic cover and for that reason the orignal cover is like brand new.
The thin record sleeve is a bit yellowing (see pics) but otherwise it looks like it came out of the shop yesterday.
It is MINT!
I have tried to show how little wear there is in the pics.
Poem
Still falls the rain, the veils of darkness shroud the blackened trees, which contorted by some unseen violence, shed their tired leaves, and bend their boughs towards a grey earth of severed bird wings. among the grasses, poppies bleed before a gesticulating death, and young rabbits, born dead in traps, stand motionless, as though guarding the silence that surrounds and threatens to engulf all those that would listen. Mute birds, tired of repeating yesterdays terrors, huddle together in the recesses of dark corners, heads turned from the dead, black swan that floats upturned in a small pool in the hollow. there emerges from this pool a faint sensual mist, that traces its way upwards to caress the chipped feet of the headless martyr's statue, whose only achievement was to die to soon, and who couldn't wait to lose. the cataract of darkness form fully, the long black night begins, yet still, by the lake a young girl waits, unseeing she believes herself unseen, she smiles, faintly at the distant tolling bell, and the still falling rain.
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