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LEONARD COHEN - SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN LEONARD COHEN S FIRST ALBUM INSANELY RARE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHED SLIPCASE PRESSING WITH BEAUTIFUL PRESS KIT - ORIGINAL COLUMBIA RECORDS 1967 STEREO LP CS-8733
ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING
INSANELY RARE STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST STEREO PRESSING
PERSONALLY AUTOGRAPHED BY LEONARD COHEN PLEASE SEE THE MAGNIFIED DETAIL OF HIS SIGNATURE, SHOWN BELOW
INCREDIBLY RARE PROMOTIONAL-ONLY RELEASE WITH A CRUDE PAPER BAGGY ENVELOPING THE ENTIRE ALBUM, AUTOGRAPHED BY LEONARD COHEN, WHICH SERVES AS A POUCH WHICH HOLDS THE ORIGINAL ALBUM, PLUS THE MASSIVE, GORGEOUS PRESS KIT
THE ALBUM COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC, AND BIZARRELY RARE PRESS PUBLICITY KIT SOME OF WHICH WAS USED FOR THE 2010 LEONARD COHEN DELUXE SERIES CD REISSUES CONSISTING OF:
THREE AWESOME 11 X 11 -INCH GLOSSY, BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS IN INCREDIBLE STATE OF PRESERVATION -- PRACTICALLY UNTOUCHED.
1- A 4-PAGE BLACK WHTE PHOTO-ILLUSTRATED LETTER OF INTRODUCTION FROM THE LABEL THE ARTISTS S BIO ON COLUMBIA RECORDS STATIONARY
2- B W PHOTO-ILLUSTRATED 11 X 11 SHEET CONTAINING BOOK REVIEW EXCERPTS FROM TRADE MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS.
3- CRUDE, DRAWING PAPER-TYPE BROWN PAPER BAGGY PERSONALLY AUTOGRAPHED BY LEONARD COHEN, WHICH HOUSES ALL THESE INSERTS SEE THE PHOTO
ACCORDING TO THE SOURCES CLOSE TO LEONARD COHEN HIMSELF, LESS THAN 50 OF THESE WERE EVER MADE, AND THESE RARE COPIES WERE MAILED OUT STRICTLY TO THE INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS AND MUSIC INDUSTRY EXECUTIVES. WE WOULD HAZARD A GUESS THAN LESS THAN 20 COPIES SURVIVE, OF WHICH PROBABLY LESS THAN 10 FULL AND COMPLETE. YOU ARE LITERALLY LOOKING AT THE PROVERBIAL HOLY GRAIL OF ALL LEONARD COHEN PRESSINGS
GUARANTEED ORIGINAL RED WHITE COLUMBIA 360 STEREO SOUND LABEL, LATE 60 s STYLE , SUCH AS THE ONE SHOWN BELOW, FROM OUR PREVIOUS AUCTION
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.
FOUR BREATHE AIR HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP TWO ON EACH SIDE
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER AMERICAN STYLE
VERY RARE ORIGINAL , FIRST VERSION OF THE COVER WHICH SHOWS LEONARD COHEN S NAME SPLIT IN TWO 2 LINES AND HIS LAST NAME SPILLING OVER ONTO THE BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO OF OUR HERO PRACTICALLY ON HIS FOREHEAD THE LATER PRESSINGS PUSH COHEN ABOVE HIS PHOTO AND ONTO THE BLACK BORDER AND COMPRESS HIS NAME INTO ONE LINE
NOTE: WHILE ALMOST ALL MONO PRESSINGS OF THIS ALBUM WHICH ARE EXCEPTIONALLY RARE HAVE THIS, RARE COVER, VERY FEW STEREO COVERS WITH FOREHEAD TITLE EXIST: THIS IS ONLY THE FIFTH STEREO FOREHEAD COPY WE HAVE SEEN IN A LIFETIME OF COLLECTING ALL EUROPEAN COVERS ARE THE TWO-LINE VARIETY, THOUGH
INCLUDES ORIGINAL FOLDOUT INSERT LYRICS SHEET , STILL NEATLY FOLDED AROUND THE OPENING SIDE
THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING
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
At a time when a growing number of pop songwriters were embracing a more explicitly poetic approach in their lyrics, the 1967 debut album from Leonard Cohen introduced a songwriter who, rather than being inspired by serious literature, took up music after establishing himself as a published author and poet. The ten songs on Songs of Leonard Cohen were certainly beautifully constructed, artful in a way few if any other lyricists would approach for some time, but what s most striking about these songs isn t Cohen s technique, superb as it is, so much as his portraits of a world dominated by love and lust, rage and need, compassion and betrayal. While the relationship between men and women was often the framework for Cohen s songs he didn t earn the nickname the master of erotic despair for nothing , he didn t write about love rather, Cohen used the never-ending thrust and parry between the sexes as a jumping off point for his obsessive investigation of humanity s occasional kindness and frequent atrocities both emotional and physical . Cohen s world view would be heady stuff at nearly any time and place, but coming in a year when pop music was only just beginning to be taken seriously, Songs of Leonard Cohen was a truly audacious achievement, as bold a challenge to pop music conventions as the other great debut of the year, The Velvet Underground Nico, and a nearly perfectly realized product of his creative imagination. Producer John Simon added a touch of polish to Cohen s songs with his arrangements originally Cohen wanted no accompaniment other than his guitar , though the results don t detract from his dry but emotive vocals instead, they complement his lyrics with a thoughtful beauty and give the songs even greater strength. And a number of Cohen s finest songs appeared here, including the luminous Suzanne, the subtly venomous Master Song and Sisters of Mercy, which would later be used to memorable effect in Robert Altman s film McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Many artists work their whole career to create a work as singular and accomplished as Songs of Leonard Cohen, and Cohen worked this alchemy the first time he entered a recording studio few musicians have ever created a more remarkable or enduring debut.
EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY MARK DEMING, ALL MUSIC GUIDE /ALLMUSIC.COM/
Finding a still sealed original copy with the RARE COVER, personally AUTOGRAPHED by our hero and with a MASSIVE PRESS KIT? ? ? Forget it not even a HOPE Not in this vale of tears, you won t. This may be the last one you will ever see.
