FAIRPORT CONVENTION w/SANDY DENNY CHRONICLES RARE SEALED ORIG '76 A&M 2-LP SET

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·       FAIRPORT CONVENTION - FAIRPORT CHRONICLES - A CAREER-SPANNING FAIRPORT CONVENTION ANTHOLOGY - ORIGINAL 1976 A&M RECORDS STEREO 2-LP SET (DOUBLE ALBUM) SP-3530

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

THIS ITEM COMES FROM THE INCREDIBLE, SINGLE-OWNER COLLECTION WE ACQUIRED A WHILE AGO, IN WHICH ITEMS ORIGINALLY BOUGHT BY THE OWNER FROM THE MID-1970s to THE MID-2010s WERE KEPT STILL SEALED IN A NEAR-LABORATORY, TIME-CAPSULE CONDITIONS AND IN PRACTICALLY CLIMATE- AND HUMIDITY- CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT.  CONDITIONS OF SOME OF THESE ITEMS RANGE FROM IMPECCABLE TO TRULY UNBELIEVABLE. SOME OF THESE BEAUTIFUL MUSEUM PIECES LOOKED SO PERFECT THAT WE HAD TO REINSPECT AND RE-EXAMINE THEM A FEW TIMES TO MAKE SURE THEY OUR EYES ARE NOT DECEIVING US.

·       BELIEVED TO BE PRESSED ON THE ORIGINAL SILVER-GRAY A&M LABEL WITH A&M LOGO FADING INTO THE BACKGROUND (mid-to-late 70’s STYLE

·       THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

·       TWO “BREATHE” (AIR) HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER

·       COVER HAS A NIFTY 'HYPE' (ADVERTISEMENT) STICKER STILL AFFIXED TO THE SHRINK WRAP.

·       FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least thick, and  10 being the thickest), we assess the thickness of the vinyl as 7.

(?PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you’ll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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A flawless greatest-hits package. "Percy's Song", with its ever-growing layers of instrumentation, is one of the best Dylan covers ever recorded. These days, it would take a multi-disc box set to fully encompass the history of Britain's greatest folk-rock band, Fairport Convention, who started out in 1967 and were still at it (albeit in very different form) nearly 35 years later. But even the staunchest Fairport loyalist would likely concede that the band's moment of true glory was encompassed in the years 1968 (when they released their first album) through 1972 (by which time vocalist Sandy Denny and guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson had departed the group). Fairport Chronicles is a superbly compiled double set that's an ideal introduction to Fairport Convention's golden era; it brings together 20 songs cherry picked from the group's first five albums, Sandy Denny's first solo album, the sole album from the short-lived Fairport offshoot Fotheringay, and the one-off studio project The Bunch, in which the Fairports and their friends arranged a set of '50s rock classics in their own distinctive ways. Approaching British traditional music with the passion and abandon of a crack rock & roll band, or playing a Bob Dylan tune with the purity and grace of a Child ballad, Fairport Convention embraced their music on no terms other than their own, and when the group as at their peak, the unerring taste and remarkable gifts of these musicians (especially Denny, Thompson, violinist Dave Swarbrick, and guitarist and singer Simon Nicol) was truly a thing of beauty to behold. Fairport Chronicles may not capture every moment of magic this band committed to vinyl, but it gathers together enough of them to serve as an ideal introduction for beginners, and a satisfying sampler for loyal fans. Simply wonderful stuff.

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·       CONDITION:

·       THE RECORD:

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ?click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID).

(b)          The records are believed to come in their  original stock inner sleeves.

(c)             The records are  apparently pressed on a RELATIVELY  thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy ('dynaflex' type),  vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl, either.

(d)          Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       THE COVER

COVER IS STRONG NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ?SHRINK WRAP   (A SMALL PIECE OF SHRINK WRAP IS MISSING)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has some tiny, faint writing on its back side (a microscopic price code written in one corner) (THE WRITING HAS BEEN COMPLETELY ERASED; ONLY THE FAINTEST PRESSURE MARK REMAINS)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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