Pink Floyd’s The Wall - 1st UK Pressing.

Great Playing Record! Great Cover. Original FIRST PRESS Labels, from my own personal collection. 1st press 'one piece' cover and rare 1st press 'Roger Waters' inner sleeves.

1ST PRESS , BRICKS DO NOT ALIGN RIGHT TO BOTTOM OF THE SLEEVE, THE INNER SURFACE OF THE SLEEVE

IS HEAVYWEIGHT CARD, THE 8TH BRICK STATES "PRODUCED BY DAVID GILMOUR" 

9TH BRICK "WORDS AND MUSIC ROGER WATERS EXCEPT "YOUNG LUST" "COMFORTABLY NUMB" ETC

THE INNER SLEEVE HAS ROUNDED EDGES AND THUMB NOTCH ALONG TOP EDGE

CAT NO:...

Harvest SHSP 411 / 4111 / 411  / 4112

LABEL PRESS DETAILS:

An original pressing, first released on November 30, 1979. Picture label with text around the top edge of the label starts at 7 o'clock and says:

All rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved. Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting and copying of this record prohibited. Made in Great Britain. EMI RecordS (UK)

MATRIX NOs. ON RUN-OUT GROOVE

Side 1: SHSP 4111 A - 2 U     Side 2:  SHSP  4111 B - 3 U

Side 3: SHSP 4112 A - 3 U      Side 3:  SHSP  4112 B - 3 U

MOTHER STAMPERS:

these are very feint but look as though they read as follows

Side 1.  2 T X       Side 2.  3  G (TMLX)

Side 3.  4 C R      (X T L)     Side 4.  2    (T M L - X X)

TRACK LISTING…

Side One:

In the Flesh? - The Thin Ice - Another Brick in the Wall Part One - The Happiest Days of our Lives - Another Brick in the Wall Part Two - Mother

Side Two:

Goodbye Blue Sky - What Shall We Do Now? - Money Lust - One of my Tears - Don’t Leave Me Now - Another Brick in the Wall Part Three - Goodbye Cruel World

Side Three

Is There Anybody Out There - Nobody Home - Vera - Comfortably Numb - Hey You

Side Four

The Show Must Go On - In the Flesh - Run Like Hell - Waiting for the Worms - Stop - The Trial - Outside the Wall

The Wall is the eleventh studio album by Pink Floyd. Released as a double album on 30 November 1979, it was subsequently performed live with elaborate theatrical effects, and adapted into the feature film, Pink Floyd The Wall.

As with the band's previous three studio albums The Wall is a concept album, and deals largely with themes of alienation and personal isolation. It was first conceived during the band's 1977 In the Flesh Tour, when bassist and lyricist Roger Waters's frustration with the spectators' perceived boorishness became so acute that he imagined building a wall between the performers and audience. 

The Wall features a notably harsher and more theatrical style than Pink Floyd's previous releases. The album was recorded in several locations. In France, Super Bear Studios was used between January and July 1979, with Waters recording his vocals at the nearby Studio Miraval. Michael Kamen supervised the orchestral arrangements at CBS Studios in New York, in September. Over the next two months the band used Cherokee Studios and The Village Recorder in Los Angeles. A plan to work with the Beach Boys at the Sundance Productions studio in Los Angeles was cancelled. For a week in November they worked at the Producers Workshop, also in Los Angeles.

Keyboardist Richard Wright left the band during the album's production but remained as a salaried musician, performing with Pink Floyd during The Wall Tour. Commercially successful upon its release, the album was one of the best selling of 1980, and as of 1999, it had sold over 23 million RIAA certified units (11.5 million albums) in the United States.

The Wall was released in the UK on 30 November 1979, and about a week later in the US. The album topped the Billboard charts for 15 weeks, and in 1999 was certified 23x platinum. It remains one of the best-selling albums of all time in the US, between 1979 and 1990 selling over 19 million copies worldwide. In this sense The Wall is second only to 1973's The Dark Side of the Moon.

ALBUM  GRADING: 

Yes – brilliant! 

Will Rate The LP a EX/EX/EX/EX Throughout and a great copy of this LP

Visually, this is a superb set of glossy vinyls, and a really thick pressing. Deep clear grooves that can only be found on the original pressings, the record has great shine, with NO scratches and NO hairlines. Inspected under a spot light, there are barely any paper removal marks, a couple of  light surface scratches, that you really have to squint to see.  Easily grades  EXCELLENT Throughout.