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DAVID BOWIE BY DAVID BOWIE ORIGINAL 1969 PHILIPS RECORDS UK TEST PRESSING On those very rare occasions in your life.
It is so difficult.When you come across an item, that the very instant your eyeballs scan what is in front of you.
You have to think.....
Get a grip, to control your heartbeat.Your fascial expression, indeed your whole body.
I had a moment like that when I came across this CORKER Keep cool and smile thats what I did when I bought this ULTIMATE DAVID BOWIE GEM.
From a beautiful woman hi Mary .
Who was a regular at the Beckingham arts lab and told me she had lost count how many times she had seen Bowie perform there.
Building this collection I have met some really amazing people like Mary who not only saw Bowie dozens of times in the late 60s .
She had many drinks with him in the three tons pub.
Her stories were so ordinary they just had to be true.
I also had the pleasure of meeting 2 sisters, one who went out with Mick Ronson and said her parents loved Mick, what a nice guy, but not his friend, David.
Who always seemed to phone looking for Mick but phoned very late at night with no concidderation for anyone else , it would anger her dad.
You know....
Stories like that, you just know are the truth.
I bought this LP and a few other things from her about 25 years ago.
I wanted to hear her say, yes Alan, David Bowie gave this record to me , but that simply was not the case.
If you look at the inner sleeve you will see its from the Kensington music Library .
Disappointingly true.
Well not all that disappointing .
You can walk to Kensington from Beckingham where Bowie lived in 15 minutes so were in the ballpark so to speak.
Collecting David Bowie records seldom gets more serious than this.
A test pressing of David s second LP also called DAVID BOWIE and with a beautiful ORIGINAL poster/ flyer from one of the most famous David Bowie concerts he ever did.
It was this concert that was the final nail in the coffin for poor old Kenneth Pitt, David s first manager and long time father figure and friend.There was confusion over the responsibility for promoting this gig Between Ken Pitt and Bowie s new ally Calvin Mark Lee.Whom if you are as sad as I am, and have looked at the inside of this great sleeve you will read David Bowie Vocals 12 string acoustic then all the instruments David plays ....
Below that it says Design concept by David Bowie /CML thats Calvin Mark Lee .
Anyway between Lee and Pitt they messed up the promotion and Bowie was FURIOUS.
This gig was attended by so few journalists its impact was lost.
Read the passage it states Ken Pitt saying Bowie happened that night, I have never seen him perform so well,either before or since.
Had the press been there everything that happened to him in 72 would have happened in November 69 .
So a very important document in the story of David Bowie for the winner of this to frame for his music room wall.
I love the ticket prices 10s 8s and 5s ,thats in the S is for shillings in old money before decimalisation which came in 1971.
I think the 5s would be 25 pennies not a lot when pre 71 we had 240 pennies to a pound and not the 100 after 1971 The poster is about 9 inches by 7 inches so ideal for framing.
The sleeve is IMMACULATE.
ONE OF THE BEST I HAVE EVER SEEN.
These sleeves are prone to ware because they were never laminated.
Many are faded by exposure to light not so the case here.
Double click the pictures.
See the colours are still vibrant both inside and outside the gate fold .
The spine is IMMACULATE .
The labels are near mint with just a few spindle trails on each side.
The vinyl has a few hairlines and side one has an unsightly hairline visible if you double click the shot with the sleeve stood up.
IT HAS NO EFFECT AT ALL ON THE WAY THIS BABY PLAYS.
It plays SUPERBLY.
ALL THE WAY The tiniest amount of surface noise is only present when your straining to hear it.
This plays like the real cracker that it is.
I love this LP .
I am sad it is going but im embracing the changes in my life.
I get this LP out regularly and I play it and I stare at the sleeve.
Colette walks past with the phone welded to here ear, and says to whoever one of her sisters Yeah hes here but his gawping like some tit in a trance at a record and talking to himself .
Why dosen t she understand ? She got me into Bowie I mean there are female collectors , ive met some.
There are female experts on the Antique programs .
I think she has not grasped that there is something great about the rarity of this item that bewilders me.I love her, I just dont understand her.
If she sees this.
I am dead.
I understand that How many of the worlds David Bowie collectors, THE MOST COLLECTABLE SOLO ARTIST EVER .
CAN SIT THERE PLAYING THIS BRILLIANT LP .
AN ORIGINAL 1969 UK TEST PRESSING AND STARE JUST LIKE A TIT IN A TRANCE, TALKING TO HIMSELF AT THIS GENUINE PIECE OF DAVID BOWIE ROCK HISTORY.
This is right up there with the highest of the high SELL YOUR DRESS COVER SELL YOUR ROUND COVER SELL 20 VALUABLE RECORDS AND GET YOUR HANDS ON THIS ITEM.
OVER TIME ALL THE OTHERS CAN ONE DAY BE REPLACED.
MARK MY WORDS I KNOW FIRST HAND HOW HARD THIS PRESSING IS TO FIND .
IF YOU LIVE YOUR LIFETIME ALL OVER AGAIN.
YOU MAY NEVER EVER, SEE THIS ITEM AGAIN.
REALISE WHAT IS GOING ON HERE....
I AM DISMANTLING, PIECE BY PIECE, ONE OF THE FINEST DAVID BOWIE LP COLLECTIONS EVER ASSEMBLED .
IT HAS TAKEN MY WHOLE LIFE TO BUILD THIS....DONT THINK YEAH I WILL GET THAT IN A YEAR OR TWO.
YOU WONT As the time ticks away watch this beauty leaving your life.
FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE IT IS A RARE PRIVELIDE TO OWN THIS.
YOU ARE ONLY THIS WAY.
THE ONCE IF YOU WANT THIS.
DEMAND IT.
AND HOW YOU DO THAT.
IS.
YOU WIN IT DAVID BOWIE.
BY DAVID BOWIE.
ORIGINAL 1969 PHILIPS RECORDS.
UK.UK.UK.UK.UK.UK.UK.
TEST PRESSING.
WITH THE HISTRIONIC PURCELL ROOMS CONCERT FLYER .
RARE.RARE.RARE.RARE.RARE.
A penny start .
And NO RESERVE POSTAGE AND PACKING IS AS FOLLOWS UK INLAND TRACKED FULLY INSURED IS 16.50 To Germany it is 18.50 and USA is 26.10 .
I no longer ship to the Russian Fed, Ukraine or Italy.
BOWIE COLLECTORS BOTH OLD AND NEW.
PLEASE KEEP WATCHING.
I WILL BE SELLING SOME OF THE RAREST DAVID BOWIE LPS THAT WERE EVER PRESSED.
Overseas bidders be aware if this item goes for a high price it will require extra insurance.
As a guide I recently mailed a record to France valued at 1600 it cost me 108.20 please used this as a guide and factor it into your bidding.
