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  PINK FLOYD - DARK SIDE OF THE MOON 

STUNNING - ORIGINAL MINT UK PRESSING

  Great Playing Record! Great Audio and Cover. Original UK PRESS Labels. 

Complete with Posters, Stickers, Original Inner Sleeve and Posters, all in great condition. Original Year and Date of Release: 1973, this is a great all round complete 2nd pressing with original posters, stickers and a rare A3 B3 U.K. PRESSING. With ORIGINAL NEAR MINT to MINT VINYL!!!

Matrix Press - SHVL 804 - A 3 / B 3 – very early matrix version. This is a rare A3 B3 matrix UK press of the great DARK SIDE OF THE MOON. Released not long after the Solid Blue triangle pressings, the A3 B3 pressings came just after that variant was taken off the market, and were released in small numbers. 

Although DSOM was produced in huge quantities, having any matrix variant with TOP Audio is a rarity, its such complex varied album, and prone to audio loss. Finding a Complete UK A3 B3 pressing in this wonderful condition is an extreme rarity and makes this a very special chance to own a genuinely rare collectors pressing in TOP condition with Superb Audio. This also comes with its original Cover, Inner Sleeve, stickers and Posters.

A brilliant package, getting rarer by the day!

CAT NO:....

Stereo 1973 Harvest Records SHVL 804   

LABEL PRESS DETAILS:

Original UK 1st HARVEST press. CAT NO: Q 4 SHVL 804  - STEREO, with small P next to the date of 1971. 

This is the rare A3 B 3 matrix UK press of the great DARK SIDE OF THE MOON. Finding a Complete press in this wonderful condition is very rare indeed and makes this a very special chance to own a genuinely rare early press.

MATRIX NOs. ON RUN-OUT GROOVE

Side 1. A 3 

Side 2. B 3 

MOTHER STAMPERS:

Side 1. '' 2       2               A     H     H '' 

Side 2. ''  2      3               C   O   M '' (extremely early press)

TRACK LISTING…

1. Speak To Me 2. Breathe 3. On The Run 4. Time 5. The Great Gig In The Sky 6. Money 7. Us And Them 8. Any Colour You Like 9. Brain Damage 10. Eclipse   

The band's most successful release, The Dark Side of the Moon spent 741 consecutive weeks (14 years) on the USA-based Billboard 200 album chart, the longest duration of ANY album in history. Additionally, the album holds the record of spending the highest amount of time on the Billboard charts, staying there for more than 1,500 weeks (that’s almost 29 years). It is one of three albums tied for the claim of second highest selling album globally of all time, selling over forty million or more units. In addition to its commercial success, The Dark Side of the Moon is often considered to be the group's defining work, and is still frequently ranked by music critics as one of the greatest and most influential albums of all time.

Sales of the album worldwide total over forty million as of 2004, with an average of 8,000 copies sold per week and a total of 400,000 in the year of 2002 — making it the 200th best-selling album of that year nearly three decades after its initial release.

A Fantastic pressing of what is undoubtedly one of the most iconic albums of the 20th century.    

ALBUM PLAYED FOR GRADING: 

Brilliant! - TOP AUDIO on this rare pressing. Dark Side Of The Moon is a musical masterpiece and is also famously a very sensitive piece of vinyl. Worn copies can have a lot of surface sound even on musically complex and busy tracks like ‘On The Run’. I am a huge fan of DSOTM, and also highly critical of the audio performance. I just cant stand to hear a pressing that is worn or plays with anything other than great clear sound. Plays with virtually no background static and the audio flaw is immaculate.

I am pleased to say that this rare pressing plays through with great, very bright un disturbed audio. It really is a tremendous example. Strong sound free of any loud pops or clicks. The channels are clean and unstressed and there is not a hint of distortion anywhere on the record. There is barely any light occasional static or light static tics, and certainly nothing prominent or repetitive or really that noticeable. The audio plays through with brilliant strong and clear sound, it is a stunning listen. I will give a detailed account below:

This great sounding record starts with surprisingly little static in that famous extremely long run in heart beat intro to 'Speak to Me'. Great clear sound, the track plays superbly with barely any detectable static at all, or even a static tic (the kind found on all vinyls) and not a single light pop anywhere on either side.

'Breathe', another delicate track also sounds fantastically clear and the whole of the fist side really plays with superbly clear audio throughout. 'On the Run', so often heavily distorted and affected by clicks and hiss plays through with amazing clarity and bright loud sound.  Barely any detectable static at all, and no pops or tics.  

'Time' sounds great with super clear sound, no pops of clicks and barely any noticeable static. This track just sounds amazing, it's so bright and clear, and so is 'Breathe (reprise)' which is such a delicate down track and very hard to find with even half way clear sound. Here it's just brilliant. 

Even the stunning 'Great Gig in The Sky', such a difficult track to find with clear sound, plays superbly. Virtually no detectable light static during the outro, the sound quality is in Mint condition. This is a simply incredible DSOM pressing!

'Money' kicks in side 2. with amazing clear, largely flawless audio. It plays with an amazing bassy, 'sonic' feel, the original sound that is very hard to find, and lost on most pressings. 

'Us and them' starts amazingly clear with a tiny bit of light static only and a couple of random static tics. This slight static is low level, very infrequent, and very light, the kind you will find on all vinyl. This track is nearly always plagued by loud pops, clicks, static and even distortion, and this press has none of these, it just sounds superbly clean and bright. Any background static I have to insist is far in the background, and in no way dominates or interferes with the music. You have to get up close to the speakers to hear it. Then it's gone and the sound is great. 

'Any Colour you Like' sounds superb, great clear sound. No detectable static, no pops or clicks. 

'Brain Damage' sounds superb, bright clear sound leading to the albums climax, with a great pressing of 'Eclipse', with plays superbly, with brilliant clear audio. No pops or clicks or interference at all. Just great clear sound.

The record plays with staggering power, great audio with minimal interference to distract from the enjoyment of this great record. There is hardly even any surface or static noise between the tracks. Even at the end of 'Time' and the run in to the 'Great Gig In the Sky', it is clean, crisp and rich.

The music jumps out, with incredible definition and clarity, particularly on the percussion instruments, and vocals, which come through with tremendous power. As is the same with the bass and drums, whilst the guitars come through crisp and clear. This lp plays with superb, clear bright audio. I have given  a detailed account and l believe I have been unforgiving in pointing out the slightest audio interference on what is a tremendous rare early pressing. 

I would give an overall audio grading a very strict grading of NEAR MINT to MINT!

THE RECORD – Visual Grading 

A stunning piece of glossy vinyl, this rare second pressing is really thick and chunky, with amazing deep clear grooves.  A really wonderful example, it looks unplayed and unmarked. A really great example. 

Graded at NEAR MINT to MINT!

VINYL TESTED FOR ANY SIGNS OF WARPING:

Yes, NONE visible what so ever when tested be sight and on a moving turntable.    

THE LABELS 

A lovely set of labels with barely a single spindle trace. These are a great pair of labels with no slight age spots or fading. A really wonderful example!  

Graded at  NEAR MINT!

THE COVER 

A small batch of the 2nd pressings of Pink Floyd's masterpiece came with a Matt Black cover and a white poly lined inner sleeve with MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN printed on the lower right hand corner. These are incredibly rare and virtually never come up for sale, and are near impossible to find in great condition.

The Matt finish covers of  DSOM  have to be one of the most prone to wear, of all the classic vinyls from the sixties and early seventies. With a black tint and matt finish and not having the advantage of being laminated, these covers usually faired pretty badly, with serious ring wear and scuffed along the edges. The Spines are nearly always flattened, worn and scuffed. Not this one!

This press comes with its original Matt Black Cover. These are just so hard to find with out heavily worn edges, corners and surfaces, as well as serious ring wear.

This is a great example and has very little scuffing to the corners or rubbing along the edges, and that is virtually un heard of for any pressing of DSOM, let alone an original A3 press. The opening edges are very square and totally un frayed, with virtually no detectable ring wear. The back cover is nice and clean, again with little ring wear, which is very unusual for these delicate covers. 

The inside Gatefold is clean and virtually unmarked. The Spine shows no only, and is a nice square example.  All round, this is a great example! A really wonderful example. 

Graded at EXCELLENT to EXCELLENT PLUS.

The album was originally released in a gatefold LP sleeve designed by Hipgnosis and George Hardie, and bore Hardie's iconic dispersive prism on the cover.

The Cover design was aimed to represent three elements; the band's stage lighting, the album lyrics, and Richard Wright's request for a "simple and bold" design. A spectrum of light moves through to the gatefold sleeve — an idea that Waters came up with.  Added shortly afterwards, the gatefold design also includes a visual representation of the heartbeat sound used throughout the album, and the back of the album cover.

The light band emanating from the prism on the album cover has six colours, missing indigo compared to the traditional division of the spectrum into red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The concept was continued with two posters and a sheet of pyramid-themed stickers. One poster bore pictures of the band in concert, overlaid with scattered letters to form PINK FLOYD, and the other an infrared photograph of the Great Pyramids of Giza, created by Powell and Thorgerson.

In 2003 VH1 declared that The Dark Side of the Moon had the 4th-greatest album cover of all time,  and in 2009 listeners of the UK radio station Planet Rock voted the packaging the greatest album cover of all time.  

THE INNER

A small batch of the 2nd pressings of Pink Floyd's masterpiece came with a Matt Black cover and a white poly lined inner sleeve with MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN printed on the lower right hand corner. The inner sleeve has flipped backs, for that over onto one side, and a slightly domed top, following the format of the first pressing black inner sleeves.

These are incredibly rare and virtually never come up for sale, and are near impossible to find in great condition.

The original white poly lined inner sleeve in EXCELLENT condition. No tears, stains, just some light creasing and NO seem splits. Crisp and clean the top edges and completely un worn. These are so rare now in any type of condition, and this is a great example. 

POSTERS 

This rare pressing of Dark Side of the Moon comes with BOTH original posters, in great condition. 

No tears or stains. Nice crisp edges. NO tape marks or pin holes! A really wonderful set. 

Graded at NEAR MINT!

STICKERS 

Two original Fasprint CRACKBACK stickers, in great condition. No tears. Nice crisp edges. No tape marks or pin holes. The stickers will come in a separate envelope to ensure that they do not get bent or damaged. 

Graded at EXCELLENT.

The Dark Side of the Moon is the sixth studio album by Pink Floyd. The album was developed as part of a forthcoming tour of live performances, and premièred several months before studio recording began. The new material was further refined during the tour, and was recorded in two sessions in 1972 and 1973 at Abbey Road Studios in London. Pink Floyd used some of the most advanced recording techniques of the time, including multitrack recording and tape loops. Analogue synthesisers were given prominence in several tracks, and a series of recorded interviews with staff and band personnel provided the source material for a range of philosophical quotations used throughout.

The Dark Side of the Moon was an immediate success, topping the Billboard 200 for one week. It subsequently remained in the charts for 741 weeks (fourteen years), longer than any other album in history. With an estimated 45 million units sold, it is Pink Floyd's most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling albums worldwide. It has twice been re-mastered and re-released, and has been covered by several other acts.

The Dark Side of the Moon is one of Pink Floyd's most popular albums for fans and critics alike, and is ranked as one of the greatest vinyl albums of all time.            

RARITY

Dark Side has been re produced in massive quantities, being one of the most iconic albums of the 20th century. On saying that, finding an original UK early press in great condition is extremely rare indeed.

The cover is almost impossible to find without serious wear, even modestly worn examples are scarce and this one is a brilliant example. Finding a great cover like this, with a barely played piece of vinyl, rare white inner sleeve and all the original and correct inserts, fantastic!.

A DSOM pressing in this type of condition is very scarce. The vinyl is so often played so much, heavily marked, scratched, with noisy, poor and distorted sound. Any DSOM examples with a record in this type of condition, that plays practically perfectly, very rare. An ORIGINAL pressing, with ORIGINAL Cover, original inner sleeve and ORIGINAL posters and stickers, all in great condition, makes this very rare indeed!

RARE COMPLETE CLASSIC ORIGINAL VINYLS WITH TOP AUDIO AND GREAT CONDITION THROUGHOUT

AT TRADE MARK RECORDS WE SPECIALISE IN RARE COLLECTABLE PRESSINGS - WITH GREAT SOUND UNINTERRUPTED BY INTERFERENCE. 

SELLING GREAT VINYLS FOR OVER 20 YEARS, WITH NO LOUD POPS OR CLICKS, JUMPS OR REPEATS - GUARANTEED!

GREAT ORIGINAL COVERS WITH NO SEAM SPLITS, TEARS, WRITING OR STICKERS!

VINYL

We sell the highest quality examples of Classic Vinyl. Large format art work covers with the original sound and mix unique to the best original pieces, giving the highest audio depth and performance. Vinyl prices have soared over the last ten years, making classic examples a great financial and cultural investment.  

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SCRUPULOUS EXAMINATION and TESTING:

All our records are play tested on highly sensitive equipment to ensure the sound quality and accuracy of description. We aim to give a precise and concise description of the sound, pointing out the slightest defect so that you know exactly what you are buying. We aim to describe all records as accurately as possible, and offer a full refund on return if for any reason you are not completely happy with the item description.

VINYL SOUND - PLEASE NOTE:

Highest quality vinyl with clear sound is rare, and what we always aim for. We only sell records that play with TOP AUDIO performance; super clear sound uninterrupted by hiss or other interference. Even with the cleanest pressing you will find occasional static or occasional light tics during playback, caused by a build of dust in the grooves. This is clearly different from the distortion, loud pops, repeating tics or clicks that are found on heavily played and worn pieces of vinyl. Any static build up will reduce when played, and we advise a light clean between plays for optimal performance. 

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IMAGES and INFORMATION

We only use photographs of the item for sale taken with professional digital cameras. The images are designed to be as clear as possible, giving an exact representation of the item. We aim to give sufficient and accurate detail as possible, so that you know exactly what you are buying. Please let us know if you need any further information and we will be happy to oblige.

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SOME EXAMPLES OF FEEDBACK –

BRILLIANT LP MINT CONDITION, AWESOME SELLAR, 1ST CLASS PACKAGING, NO PROBLEMS A+

Absolutely fantastic! Worth every single penny! Trust you are in careful hands!

ITEM RECEIVED.. AS DESCRIBED... PACKED GREAT...MANY THANKS..RECOMMENDED.. A*******

Great LP from a great seller. Thanks !! Very well packaged. AAA+++

Item arrived quickly, well packaged and in excellent condition. Very pleased.

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RETURN POLICY:

100% Satisfaction Guaranteed ; - returns accepted without question. If you are not happy then any item can be returned, we cant say fairer than that!

WE ONLY SELL RARE RECORDS THAT ARE IN GREAT CONDITION. IF THERE IS ANY SLIGHT DEFECT, IT WILL BE CLEARLY STATED.

If in the unlikely event that you may want to return an item, or that we have missed something in the listing, we offer a no quibble return policy. Items must be returned within 12 Days of receipt, and returned in the same condition that they were sent out in. Return postage must be paid by buyer, unless there is a particular fault with the item, and then we will pay the full postage costs!

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RECORD GRADING SYSTEM IS AS FOLLOWS - ( BASED ON RECORD COLLECTOR MAGAZINE U.K. )

MINT: Virtually unplayed. The record itself is in brand new condition with no surface marks or deterioration in sound quality. Cover is pristine.

EXCELLENT: The record shows some signs of having been played, but there is very little lessening in sound quality. The cover and packaging might have slight wear and/or creasing.

V.G PLUS: The record will still be nice and shiny, but may have a few light marks, and will play well. Slight wear and tear on the cover.

V.G: The record has obviously been played many times, but displays no major deterioration in sound quality, despite noticeable surface marks and occasional light scratch. Normal wear and tear on the cover or extra items.

GOOD: The record has been played so much that the sound quality has noticeably deteriorated, perhaps with some distortion and mild scratches. The cover and contents suffer from folding, scuffing of edges, spine splits, etc.

FAIR: Fair. It is noticeable that the record has been played so much that the sound quality has deteriorated very noticeably. The cover and contents are showing signs of folding, scuffing of edges etc.

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All items will be extremely well sealed and securely wrapped. We use the best possible packaging for safe handling and delivery. 

All records can be sent by Express Courier if an extra fast delivery is desired. 

We send items all round the globe with 100% success! We sell top quality rare records to discerning buyers. We do not make money from the postage costs and aim to keep the prices at a reasonable rate, while never offering a cheap or second rate service. 

IT IS AN ABSOLUTE PRIORITY THAT THE RECORDS YOU BUY GET TO YOU IN PERFECT CONDITION. All RECORDS ARE REMOVED FROM THEIR MAIN COVER AND PLACED IN A BRAND NEW REPLACEMENT INNER SLEEVES TO AVOID ANY CHANCE OF EDGE SPLITS OR KNIFING. THEY ARE HELD SAFELY IN EXTRA THICK PLASTIC SLEEVES, AND THEN SECURED WITH SEVERAL EXTRA LAYERS OF REINFORCED CARD BOARD AND PADDING, DOUBLE BOXED IN EXTRA STRONG PROFESSIONAL RECORD CONTAINERS TO ENSURE SAFE ARRIVAL. WE HAVE A 100% SUCCESS RATE AND AIM TO KEEP IT THAT WAY.

Example of packaging used

UK - First Class Signed For Recorded Delivery with Insurance : = £9.00

EUROPE - International Airmail Signed For Recorded Delivery with Insurance : = £9.95

INTERNATIONAL, Non-Europe e.g. USA, Japan, Russia, Australia etc. International Airmail Signed For Recorded Delivery with Insurance : = £18.95

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Reduced postage for multiple records up to 30% off extra items.

POSTAGE WILL BE FIRST CLASS OR THE FASTEST AND SAFEST POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE, - RECORDED WITH TRACKING AND INSURANCE. ALL ITEMS ARE FULLY INSURED AND COVERED FOR THE SAFEST DELIVERY POSSIBLE, AT NO EXTRA COST TO YOU. GUARANTEED!

POSTAGE RECEIPTS AND PROOF OF POSTAGE IS ALWAYS AVAILABLE. 

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PAYMENTS 

Payments must be made within 3 days of purchasing unless an alternative arrangement has been agreed upon. 

Pay Pal or bank transfers are accepted for International buyers. We accept Pay Pal, bank transfers or postal orders within the UK. Records will be sent out immediately on receipt of payment.

Please Note: If no contact is made by the winning bidder following the mandatory Ebay 3 days, we will reserve the right to offer the item to the next highest bidder, unless prior notice of any delay is arranged beforehand.  Any bidder who has missed the chance to purchase a record can still email to make a priority second chance offer.   

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CUSTOMS CHARGES 

If this record is purchased from outside of the European Union there may be a customs fee charged. Unfortunately we cannot advise about the exact customs fees in individual countries and suggest that if you are concerned about potential fees that you contact your own Customs and Excise Department.