ROLLING STONES STICKY FINGERS VERY RARE ORIG'71 UK LP w/ANDY WARHOL ZIPPER COVER

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·      ROLLING STONES - STICKY FINGERS - ORIGINAL  1971 BRITISH PRESSING WITH THE "ZIPPER COVER"  - ORIGINAL 1971 ROLLING STONES RECORDS STREEO LP COC-59100

·      ORIGINAL BRITISH PRESSING

·      NOTE: THE INFAMOUS ZIPPER IS INCOMPLETE: THE TOP 1/3 IS MISSING

·      ORIGINAL LP WITH ANDY WARHOL’S CLASSIC “ZIPPER” COVER – 100% GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING !!

·      ORIGINAL YELLOW ROLLING STONES RECORDS "STICKING TONGUE" LABEL WITHOUT THE WEA LOGO ALONG THE PERIMETER OF THE LABEL

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

·      ORIGINAL UNIPAK-LIKE CUSTOM-MADE COVER UNIQUE TO THIS TITLE; WITH  ARTWORK BY ANDY WARHOL AND WITH CONCEALED PHOTO OF A, UM… WELL-ENDOWED DUDE INSIDE – PROBABLY THAT OF MR. MICK “JUMPIN’ JACK” JAGGER HIMSELF (YOU WOULDN’T EXPECT ANYTHING ELSE FROM ANDY WARHOL, WOULD YOU?).

·      ORIGINAL BRITISH TOP-LOADER

·      THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·      MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

·      MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-A3/-B3'.

(►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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Pieced together from outtakes and much-labored-over songs, Sticky Fingers manages to have a loose, ramshackle ambience that belies both its origins and the dark undercurrents of the songs. It's a weary, drug-laden album -- well over half the songs explicitly mention drug use, while the others merely allude to it -- that never fades away, but it barely keeps afloat. Apart from the classic opener, "Brown Sugar" (a gleeful tune about slavery, interracial sex, and lost virginity, not necessarily in that order), the long workout "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" and the mean-spirited "Bitch," Sticky Fingers is a slow, bluesy affair, with a few country touches thrown in for good measure. The laid-back tone of the album gives ample room for new lead guitarist Mick Taylor to stretch out, particularly on the extended coda of "Can't You Hear Me Knocking." But the key to the album isn't the instrumental interplay -- although that is terrific -- it's the utter weariness of the songs. "Wild Horses" is their first non-ironic stab at a country song, and it is a beautiful, heart-tugging masterpiece. Similarly, "I Got the Blues" is a ravished, late-night classic that ranks among their very best blues. "Sister Morphine" is a horrifying overdose tale, and "Moonlight Mile," with Paul Buckmaster's grandiose strings, is a perfect closure: sad, yearning, drug-addled, and beautiful. With its offhand mixture of decadence, roots music, and outright malevolence, Sticky Fingers set the tone for the rest of the decade for the Stones.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY STEPHEN THOMAS ERLEWINE, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

This classic 1971 album, complete with zipper and male-in-the-underwear photo, custom inner sleeve and Andy Warhol’s original cover artwork is exceedingly hard to find - particularly in good shape and undamaged - despite having remained in print for more than 15 years after its release. This is a rare chance to grab this beautiful piece.

And the music…well, if you don’t know the music by now, you must have spent the last 36 years in some (very) uninhabited place or in solitary confinement. Track listing: Brown Sugar --- Sway --- Wild Horses --- Can't You Hear Me Knocking --- You Gotta Move --- Bitch --- I Got The Blues --- Sister Morphine --- Dead Flowers --- Moonlight Mile.

For its extraordinary contribution to the modern music, superb production, craftsmanship, fine musicianship, revolutionary significance and influence it exerted on numerous generations of musicians, writers and general public, or for some other innate quality, this album was voted one of top-200 albums of all time in one of the largest poll of critics, music reviewers, professionals and producers ever organized: the poll, which was conducted by Paul Gambaccini, legendary BBC Radio A&R man, surveyed more than 50 top music professionals (including Roy Carr, Jonathan Cott, Robert Christgau, Cameron Crowe, Chet Flippo, Ben Fong-Torres, Charlie Gillett, Greil Marcus, Murray the K., Lenny Kaye , Bruce Morrow (a/k/a "Cousin Brucie"), Tim Rice (of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita" fame), Lisa Robinson, Robert Shelton (who wrote liner notes for Bob Dylan's first album), Ed Ward, Joel Whitburn, Pete Wingfield, etc.). For more details, see: "Critics Choice: Top-200 albums" compiled by Paul Gambaccini, Omnibus Press, Library of Congress Catalog No.785556

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A NOTE ON ANDY WARHOL ALBUM COVERS

Warhol did album covers throughout his entire life - the most well-known being the 1967 Velvet Underground album featuring a banana and the 1971 cover for The Rolling Stones' album Sticky Fingers, co-designed with Craig Braun, which featured an image of a man's crotch in a pair of jeans with a functioning zipper. The Nations Nightmare was probably the first album cover featuring Warhol's work. Concidentally, it dealt with the use of recreational drugs - a theme that would often be associated with Warhol and his entourage throughout the 1960s as a result of films like The Chelsea Girls which showed Brigid Berlin shooting up speed on camera. Warhol would also became known for his use of transvestites in his films. In approximately 1952, the same year that he won the award for The Nation's Nightmare, Warhol also did some of his earliest drawings of a man in drag when he sketched the photographer, Otto Fenn, dressed as a woman. Warhol's drawings were similar to photographs that Fenn had taken of himself dressed as a woman.

Other than these, Andy Warhol also did fine cover artwork for albums by Artie Shaw, Count Basie, Kenny Burrell (3 covers), Johnny Griffin, Joe Newman, Bennie Green, Diana Ross, John Cale (2 covers), John Wallowitch, Rolling Stones (2 covers), Velvet Underground (2 covers), Moondog, Liza Minelli, John Lennon, Thelonious Monk, Paul Anka, Billy Squier, Tennesse Williams and many, many others.

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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)         WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG VERY GOOD+(+) . CAUTION: The vinyl is NOT MINT or NEAR MINT, but is nevertheless in a very nice and clean condition. There are some surface marks and abrasions, mostly light and superficial, although some may be longer than 1.1/4 inches (1 inch = 2.5 centimeters)  (NOTE: A VISIBLE SMUDGE-LIKE SURFACE ABRASION NOTED ON 'CAN'T YOU HEAR ME KNOCKIN', MAY PRODUCE SOME CLICKS AND POPS)

(b)         The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

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

·                          THE COVER  (THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 'ZIPPER' COVER)

THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT EXCELLENT OR VERY GOOD++ (VG++).

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-       The top of the zipper (roughly 1/3) has been ripped out and is missing.

-       The cover has a few tiny pressure/scratch marks on both sides (this is a common copy with most surviving copies of this album, as the covers were shipped with protruding zippers pressing into the adjoining covers without any protection)

-       Cover has some light ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 3

-       Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

-       The belt "buckle" has separated along the perforated line, but is otherwise whole and complete.

-       Cover has three corners slightly worn / dinged (nothing significant)

-       Cover has a light "wrinkle" (crease)  in one of the corners.

-       Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the seams  (nothing significant)

-       Cover has a small, round sticker residue (small yellowish discoloration from the removed price sticker)  (nothing significant)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS AND IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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