LED ZEPPELIN IV 1st UK PRESS PLUM/RED LABELS MiNt AuDiO

	£		416
	$		551

LED ZEPPELIN ''LED ZEPPELIN IV'' AWESOME ORIGINAL 1ST UK PRESSING!!! CAT NO. 2401012 TOP! TOP! AUDIO THROUGHOUT! !!!! WITH ORIGINAL MASTER PRESSERS SIGNATURE HAND ECHED ON THE RUN OFF GROOVES ''PORKY'' and ''PECKO DUCK''(ONLY 1ST PRESS)!!!! PLUM\RED LABELS (ONLY 1ST PRESS)  EXCEPTIONAL TOP AUDIO! (NO) CLICKS OR POPS!!! VIRTUALLY UNPLAYED NEAR MINT VINYL!! RICH DEEP BASSEY FEEL AWESOME SEPERATION!

RARE CROSSED OUT\CORRECTED MATRIX ON BOTH SIDES MISS SPELT TRACK ''MISTY MOUNTAIN HOP'' MISSPELT ''MISTY MOUNTAIN TOP''

''UNDER LICENCE.....'' Featured on the white strip (only early press)!!!!!

 NEAR MINT AUDIO!

Another from my personal collection, Being an avid collector of Led Zeppelin UK pressings I have accumilated many many copies of this album and many variations on both labels and audio mixes!! This album has been carefully stored in a case, with the sleeve and cover seperated from the vinyl!!!  I have many many copies of all of the Zeppelin UK albums!  The vinyl is in absolutely top condition and has obviously barely ever been played, you can still even see the plastic in the spindle hole (see photos) Near mint awesome top audio on all frequencies!! Remember this is an original 37 years old, very very rare to find like this! The 1st press cover has some light rubbing ware at the edges with age only but there is no creases worth to mention. This is complete with the 1st issue flipback lyric records sleeve also without splits or tares! The vinyl features crossed out/corrected matrix on both sides and also features the misspelt track ''Misty Mountain Hop'' Misspelt ''Misty Mountain Top '' on side two (only found like this on the earliest pressings) Very sought after like this!

Played at very loud volume on my system, this nearly shook the house down! Very near perfect audio through out!! Very important note! For all those audiophiles out there! it is so common on these early 70s pressings to experiance light static crackle in the form of light interfearace that is normally heard during quiet tracks on these vinyls, that are although tollerable in most cases it is still evedent. This copy is absolutely awesome throughout Having heard many many variations of this pressing and some sound extreemely blandand incipede this is awesome rich and very very vibrant with a real basey and raunchy feel that can only be heard on the earliest UK pressings in my opinion!! I would class myself as highly critical, Please look at my completed listings of records that I have sold of this calaber and you will see that I normally get it right!!! 

I have recorded from the actual vinyl a sample of the track ''Misty Mountain Hop'' Please click the link below this image.  

See My  Video of this album (in full screen mode) for a sample of the track  ''Misty Mountain Hop'' From this album Recorded in digital in stereo   (Please Click Below)

The untitled fourth album of English rock band Led Zeppelin was released on November 8, 1971. It has no official title mentioned on the cover and is commonly referred to as Led Zeppelin IV, in the style of the band's previous three albums. Atlantic Records catalogues have used the names Four Symbols and The Fourth Album, and it is also variously referred to as Untitled, Runes, Sticks, Man with Sticks, Four and ZoSo (after the appearance of the first character or symbol printed on the LP label). Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page frequently refers to the album in interviews as Led Zeppelin IV, while singer Robert Plant thinks of it as "the fourth album, that's it." It is one of the best-selling albums in history, with over 23 million units sold in the United States alone; estimates for worldwide figures usually top 37 million units!!!.

After the lukewarm, if not confused and sometimes dismissive, critical reaction Led Zeppelin III had received in the autumn of 1970, Jimmy Page decided that the next Led Zeppelin album would not have a title, but would instead feature four hand-drawn symbols on the inner sleeve and record label, each one chosen by the band member it represents. "We decided that on the fourth album, we would deliberately play down the group name, and there wouldn't be any information whatsoever on the outer jacket," Page explained. "Names, titles and things like that do not mean a thing!!."

Owing to the lack of an official title, Atlantic Records initially distributed graphics of the symbols in many sizes to the press for inclusion in charts and articles. The album was one of the first to be produced without conventional identification, and this communicated an anti-commercial stance that was controversial at the time (especially among certain executives at Atlantic)!!.

Led Zeppelin IV remains a perennial favorite on classic rock radio and features "Stairway to Heaven", one of the most famous and popular rock songs ever recorded!!.

THE MATRIX

SIDE 1. 2421012 A#3''PEKO DUCK'''' (HAND ETCHED ON THE RUN OFF GROOVES ONLY 1ST PRESS) RARE CROSSED OUT\CORRECTED MATRIX ON SIDE 1.

SIDE 2. 2431012 B#3''PORKY'' (HAND ETCHED ON THE RUN OFF GROOVES ONLY 1ST PRESS) RARE CROSSED OUT\CORRECTED MATRIX ON SIDE 2.

THE VINYL

THIS IS THE HEAVIER AND THICKER ORIGINAL TYPE OF VINYL AND THEREFOR MUCH MORE ROBUST!! LATER PRESS WERE MUCH MORE FLIMSIER!!! THE VINYL LAYS PERFECTLY FLAT ON THE TURNTABLE!

INITIAL INSPECTION THE VINYL LOOKS SUPERBE AND I CAN HARDLY SEE A BLEMISH!!! ONLY IN STRONG LIGHT COULD POSSIBLY ANY , OR VERY FEW LIGHT WHISPY SURFACE SLEEVE REMOVAL MARKS BE SEEN!!! THESE ARE NON AUDIO SOUNDING THAT I HEARD!!! (IN FACT I NEVER HEARD ANY LOUD CLICKS OR POPS THROUGHOUT!  THE AUDIO WAS SUPERBE!! CRYSTAL CLEAR AND VIBRANT WITH (NO) SIGNS OF ANY GROOVEWARE OR THAT THIS HAS BEEN OVERPLAYED AT ALL!!SO RARE FOR A LED ZEP VINYL ORIGINAL THAT IS 36 YEARS OLD!!! ABSOLUTELY TOP AUDIO!! POINTS TO NOTE I HEARD PERHAPES TWO OR THREE LIGHT DISTANT STATIC TICKS ONLY IN ONE PLACE AT THE INTRO TO STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN BUT NOTHING THAT DETRACTED FROM THIS AWESOME TOP AUDIO IN MY OPINION!!

POINTS TO NOTE! THIS ALBUM HAS BEEN STORED IN A CASE LAYING DORMANT FOR AT LEAST 25 YEARS! FROM MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE THIS VINYL WOULD BENEFIT FROM A CONSTANT CLEAN BEFORE EACH PLAY! ,,AS BIULD UP OF DIRT AND DUST IN THE GROOVES OVER A PERIOD OF LAYING DORMANT CAUSES STATIC CRACKLE! CONSTANT CLEANING DRASTICLY REDUCES THIS AND GREATLY IMPROVES THE AUDIO QUALITY! 

ALL TRACKS PLAY AWESOME WITH (NO) LOUD CLICKS POPS OR ANY MAJOR  INTERFEARANCE. PLEASE NOTE! I ALWAYS ASK! PLEASE ALLOW FOR VERY LIGHT STATIC CRACKLE NOT CONSISTANT THROUGHOUT THE AUDIO PERHAPES ONLY REALLY HEARD PLAYED AT LOUD VOLUME IN SOME VERY QUIET PLACES OR IN BETWEEN TRACKS, THIS AUDIO IS ABSOLUTELY SUPERBE AND I HEARD NOTHING AT ALL, THAT WOULD SPOIL THE OVERALL ENJOYMENT OF THE AUDIO!!!! AND CERTAINLY NO JUMPS OR SKIPS!!! I WOULD CLASS MYSELF AS HIGHLY CRITICAL, PLEASE LOOK AT MY COMPLETED LISTINGS OF RECORDS THAT I HAVE SOLD OF THIS QUALITY AND YOU WILL SEE THAT I NORMALLY GET IT RIGHT !!!!!ABSOLUTELY TOP AUDIO ON ALL FREQUENCIES!!!!

PLEASE NOTE!! I ALWAYS ADD THIS DISCLAMER! I HAVE DESCRIBED AS USUAL THIS VINYL GIVING MY HONEST OPINION ON THE AUDIO QUALITY! PLEASE ALLOW FOR THE ODD STATIC TICK OR CRACKLE   (NOT) CONSISTANT THROUGHOUT THE AUDIO!! THIS IS A GENUINE ORIGINAL 36 YEAR OLD VINYL THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ORIGINALLY PLAYED ON A 37 YEAR OLD SYSTEM!!! IN MY PERSONAL OPINION THIS PLAYED THROUGH WITH (NO) CLICKS POPS AND CERTAINLY (NO) SKIPS OR JUMPS AND IS GRADED AT THE VERY TOP! ON ALL FREQUENCIES!! !!

TOP AUDIO WILL BE HARD TO SURPASS!!GRADED AT LEAST EXCELLENT PLUS TO VERY NEAR MINT!

THE LABELS

SUPERBE ORIGINAL ATLANTIC PLUM\ORANGE LABELS VERY MINIMAL SPIDERING PERHAPES BARELY A HANDFUL IF THAT,  CAN BE SEEN ONLY ANGLED TO THE LIGHT (UNBELEIVABLE) IN MY OPINION THIS HAS BARELY EVER BEEN PLAYED AT ALL AND CERTAINLY NOT BEEN OVERPLAYED! (NO) WARE THAT I CAN SEE AROUND THE SPINDLE HOLE AMAIZINGLY YOU CAN STILL EVEN SEE THE PLASTIC IN THE SPINDLE HOLE,, ALSO INDICATING THAT THIS HAS BARELY EVER BEEN PLAYED! (IT IS PERFECTLY ROUND)!!! MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN IS FEATURED (UK PRESSING) PLEASE NOTE! ''UNDER LICENCE.......'' IS FEATURED ON THE WHITE STRIP (ONLY EARLIEST LABELS) LATER ISSUES FEATURE THIS OBOVE THE WHITE STRIP!!  MISS SPELT TRACK ''MISTY MOUNTAIN HOP'' MISSPELT ''MISTY MOUNTAIN TOP'' !!

THE COVER

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL HEAVY DUTY 1ST UK PRESSING GATEFOLD COVER  UNLAMINATED (MAT FINISH)  (NO) SPLITS OR TARES PLEASE NOTE! THIS IS  UNLAMINATED INSIDE AND OUT! VERY VERY HARD TO KEEP IN GOOD CONDITION ! PLEASE NOTE, THERE IS LIGHT STORAGEWARE ONLY WITH AGE WITH SOME RUBBING WARE AT THE EDGES TOP AND BOTTOM AND SPINE EDGE CORNERS . THE SPINE END BOTTOM CORNER LOOKS LIKE THIS HAS BEEN CLIPED BY CUSTOMS (PROBABLY BEEN EXPORTED OUT OF THE COUNTRY AT SOME TIME)   THIS IS STRONG AND STRAIGHT. GRADED AT EXCELLENT IN MY OPINION!  

THE RECORD SLEEVE

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL (FLIP BACK) SLEEVE (ONLY 1ST PRESS later press do not have flipback) ANOTHER IMPOSSIBLE THING TO FIND (NO) SPLITS OR TARES AT THE EDGES! !(THIS IS NOW STORED SEPERATELY FROM THE VINYL)  THE ORIGINAL !  37 YEARS OLD!!!

HOW I SEND MY RECORDS!

THIS ALBUM WILL BE SENT IN A LARGE BOX WITH CARDBOARD STIFFENERS THE ALBUM IS ALWAYS PUT IS A POLY SLEEVE AND ENCASED IN THE BOX WITH PLENTY OF BUBBLEWRAP FOR ADDED PROTECTION (SEE PHOTOS)

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I offer a postage discount for multiple purchases!!!,, but i do insist that the buyer pay for the items as they are won! I can not any longer allow winning bidders to run up a large bill and then not pay! I do not have a problem with holding the goods to be despatched untill they are ready (at the buyers request), for multiple items purchased!!!!!

PLEASE LOOK AT MY OTHER RARE 1ST UK PRESSINGS LISTED NOW!!!! (click the link bellow)

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See My  Video of this album (in full screen mode) for a sample of the track  ''Misty Mountain Hop'' From this album Recorded in digital in stereo   (Please Click Below)

PLEASE LOOK AT MY OTHER RARE 1ST UK PRESSINGS LISTED NOW!!!! (click the link bellow)

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