David Bowie - Young Americans - MINT 1975 UK Pressing with A-2E/B-2E Matrices

	£		74
	$		98

Artist & Title: David Bowie – Young Americans

Rare MINT 1975 UK pressing 8-track LP, including John Lennon guesting on Across The Universe and Fame, in the original MINT picture sleeve complete with original inner, which is also in MINT condition. The sleeve looks as new and the vinyl looks – and sounds – barely played. A superb copy!
Highly desirable for its early A-2E/B-2E matrices and Mint condition and increasingly difficult to find in reasonable condition, this could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to add this immaculate rarity to your collection at an extremely advantageous price

Catalogue Number: RCA Victor ?– RS 1006

Release date: 7 March 1975

Overall Grade: MINT/MINT (LP/Cover)

Matrix/Runout: Side 1: RS-1006-A-2E A2Z PN   Side 2: RS-1006-B-2E A5G

This version has "Stereo" printed at the top of each of the face labels.
? 1975 RCA Records.
Manufactured by RCA Limited, England from master recordings of RCA Records, TM(S). ®Marca(S) Registrada(S). Used by Authority of RCA Corporation.
Printed in England by Robert Stace.
Price code HH.

This is the original version of the album.

This essential LP from David Bowie is hardly ever offered for sale in this condition.

“Young Americans remains one of the most influential records of Bowie's influential career.”

This is the extremely rare real thing: a genuine Mint/Mint condition UK pressing. The record, cover and inner sleeve are all in immaculate, as new, condition, without any defects like scratches, tears, creases, stickers, writing, dog ears, stains and the like. See pics. All items are the genuine originals bought together by me in 1975 not reprints or replacements. The LP is the original UK 1975 stereo LP, which was only played a few times on top-end audiophile equipment and lovingly cared for.

THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF THIS ESSENTIAL BRITISH ROCK ALBUM EVER OFFERED FOR SALE IN RECENT TIMES

Young Americans is the ninth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released in 1975. For the record, which showed off his 1970s "obsession" with soul music, Bowie let go of the influences he had drawn from in the past, replacing them with sounds from "local dance halls", which, at the time, were blaring with "lush strings, sliding hi-hat whispers, and swanky R&B rhythms of Philadelphia Soul". Bowie is quoted describing the album as "the squashed remains of ethnic music as it survives in the age of Muzak rock, written and sung by a white limey". Because of the strong influence of black music on the album, Bowie used the term "plastic soul" (originally coined by an unknown black musician in the 1960s) to describe the sound of Young Americans. Although Bowie was an English musician bringing up touchy American issues, the album was still very successful in the United States; the album itself reached the top ten in the US, with the song "Fame" hitting the number-one spot the same year the album was released.

“…the full-blown blue-eyed soul of Young Americans came as a shock.”

This may be your only ONCE IN A LIFETIME chance to own this rare piece of rock history in this condition.

The title song of David Bowie's Young Americans is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul. The band plays great and Tony Visconti's production is flawless – just a touch of old-fashioned slap-back echo to give the tracks some added mystery. The rest of the album works best when Bowie combines his knowledge of English pop, rather than opting entirely for one or the other. Thus, "Win," one of his best pop ballads, makes great use of an R&B chorus; it works much better than the straight James Brown impersonation "Right." He does a plaintive version of John Lennon's "Across the Universe," while "Fame" and "Fascination," besides being complementary titles, continue his merger of styles on a positive note.

A fantastic time warp example of this rarity in amazing condition, a true investment grade item - get it while you can!

AND IT MUST SELL IN THIS ONCE ONLY AUCTION

You can read more about this album HERE and all over the web.

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