DAVID BOWIE - The Man Who Sold The World - US 'reissue' LP SR 61325 - EX
£
50
$
66
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
Label: Mercury (2) ?– SR-61325
Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Unofficial Release
Country: US
Released: ?
Counterfeit of the original US Mercury edition of the album.
Not dated but it is fair to speculate pressed sometime post-1972 when Bowie was becoming more well known. The country is also unknown but judging by the sleeve construction probably USA. There are said to be many more 'reissues' of this album than real copies as it sold very few on release.
The 'reissue' is a very faithful reproduction of the original and appears almost exactly identical except for three prominent differences:
1- the matrix # is hand-scratched, NOT machine stamped
2- about 2 seconds of music is missing from All The Madmen, there is a jump cut which misses out the words 'all the same as' from the line 'For I'm quite content they're all the same as me' from the end of the second chorus. Someone who had not heard the album before would probably not notice this edit. This is not a skip it is quite smoothly done and sounds like a tape edit. It suggests there was some imperfection with the source material which was deliberately edited out. Therefore this also suggests the audio is taken from an archival copy of the vinyl and dubbed to tape, rather than a master tape transfer. Apart from this omission the music is of a professional sounding quality and artwork appears identical
3 - The rear cover speech bubble "Oh by jingo" on an actual Mercury cover is very close to the lyrics above it (less than a lyric line space below the lyric "So softly a supergod cries (second times dies)" ), whereas on counterfeits the speech bubble is almost three line spaces below.
Vinyl - EX (import drill hole bottom right, seam split top right)
Sleeve - EX (slight mark on vinyl - doesn't affect play)
Postage includes tracking and recorded delivery.
I can combine postage for multiple items
I DO NOT SHIP TO SOUTH AMERICA, MEXICO, POLAND
price rating
