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It s a God-awful small affair, To the girl with the mousy hair, But her mummy is yelling, No And her daddy has told her to go , But her friend is nowhere to be seen , Now she walks through her sunken dream, To the seat with the clearest view, And she s hooked to the silver screen.
But the film is a saddening bore, For she s lived it ten times or more, She could spit in the eyes of fools, As they ask her to focus on...
Sailors, fighting in the dance hall, Oh man Look at those cavemen go, It s the freakiest show, Take a look at the lawman, Beating up the wrong guy, Oh, man Wonder if he ll ever know, He s in the best selling show, Is there life on Mars? It s on America s tortured brow, , That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow Now the workers have struck for fame, Cause Lennon s on sale again.
See the mice in their million hordes, From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads, Rule Britannia is out of bounds, To my mother, my dog, and clowns.
But the film is a saddening bore, Cause I wrote it ten times or more, It s about to be writ again, As I ask you to focus on....
Sailors, fighting in the dance hall, Oh, man Look at those cavemen go, It s the freakiest show.
Take a look at the lawman, Beating up the wrong guy, Oh, man Wonder if he ll ever know, He s in the best selling show, Is there life on Mars? DAVID BOWIE: Hunky Dory LP, VERY FIRST UK PRESSING, 17th DECEMBER 1971.
ORANGE MATT,TEXTURED RCA LABEL, BUT WITH A POSITIVE SHEEN TO SURFACE: SF 8244 LSP 4623 That is not intended to be contradictable, only a well intended visual description of the labels, I use exactly the same terms for matt covers with a protective thin sheen.
As I will remark next, please see my pictures because I use sunlight to highlight features that words can become contradictory for, for example, I describe some labels as, softly textured with a rough finish, that was last used for a 1969 pink Island Jethro Tull record.....
pressed by Pye MAITRIX: A1 APRS 5947 - 3E / PRS 5948 - 3E Often the machine stamped letters and digits are unclear, with long experience I have become accustomed to give an opinion, but never claim that opinion is not open to different interpretations.
In this case, the above is perfectly clear until you reach the final letter after the 3 digit.
As it happens, 99.9 of any Pye / RCA pressing in the early 1970 s, a 3 digit on both sides was automatically followed by the letter E because 3 E denoted a very first pressing.
In my opinion, visually both sides have the fundamental shape of the letter E as Pye machine stamped it, a picture is worth a thousand words and by creating a shadow, the close up photo s do confirm my opinion made by eye, so I sincerely believe I have typed the maitrix correctly.
At the same time, I accept anyone could disagree, if you do, please do not send me emails, I can only state my opinion and besides that, following details are exclusive the very first pressings of Hunky Dory , when first issued in December, 1971.
The music publishing credits on the labels are Titanic Chrysalis , the later re-issues have them as MainMan Chrysalis Limited.
The end digits and letters place this as the very first pressing, issued in a matt cover not the ultra rare fully laminated, but the record is so early, it could have been placed inside one of the few made.
ALSO HAND SCRIBED IN THE RUN-OUT GROOVES AND UNIQUE TO THE VERY FIRST PRESSINGS: SIDE 1: Bobil SIDE 2: Rasputin Very lightly engraved and hard to get a clear picture of, but easily read by eye, once again I did my best with the pictures and the black white pictures created the best definition.
I did say the first pressings had unique features and the two names were not exactly common in 18971, let alone 2015 ORIGINAL 1971 RCA / PYE INNER SLEEVE, PLAIN WHITE WITH A DIE-CUT CENTRE, UNSPLIT UNUSED, THIS IS HARDLY EVEN AGED, IN NEAR MINT CONDITION.
The glue lines of the seams and where the inner sleeve had contact with the internal fixing positions, the same glue and they were also affected.
Ageing does not happen in perfectly straight lines FIRST ISSUE Hunky Dory 12 x 12 LYRICS INSERT, UNUSED, UNAGED AND UNCREASED, JUST A VERY LIGHT RECORD IN INNER SLEEVE IMPRESSION, OTHERWISE VERY CLOSE TO BRAND NEW, SO NEAR MINT CONDITION.
I ran out of close up pictures for of the Titanic Chrysalis music publishing credit to confirm the authenticity.
The sheer printing clarity on the bottom of Side 2 s lyrics, will be readble if you click on the pictures to enlarge them to full screen.
Robert Stace FIRST ISSUE COVER WITHOUT THE MainMan LOGO ON THE BACK, ONLY A Gem Production.
The cover was never used and apart from a handfull of ultra laminated covers, all the covers were made from very thin cardboard and being unlaminated, they wore really poorly and rank among the weakest UK covers from the early 1970 s decade.
Especially for the era, requiring a super human effort made to perfectly store it to prevent that almost inevitable wear, well, I cannot and will not claim the impossible, but this has survived exceptionally well and great to see the colours of the artwork without any fading or rubbing, only the black border have the usual traits but to an absolute minimum.
This is one of the few 1971 first issue covers that had a plastic outer sleeve and absolutely perfect storage for the last 44 years.
There is so little rubbing I have described it by mentioning the thin black border, the main panels on the front and back are without creases, fading or scuffing, even the back is ultra clean and still like brand new.
A gentle record impression from the record and the related unavoidable tiny edge paper lines and a few minor ripples.
The rarity of an unplayed very first pressing is enormous and it seems petty to even mention unavoidable storage traits, I have sold the laminated covers and both copies had similar storage traits and certainly had creases from the heavyweight vinyl Pye used for these very first pressings.
THE HARSHEST POSSIBLE GRADING OF THIS UNUSED COVER IS EXCELLLENT / NEAR MINT- CONDITION THE IMMACULATE LABELS ARE LITERALLY LIKE BRAND NEW WITHOUT ANY SPINDLE ALIGNMENT TRACES THE EQUALLY PRISTINE, AS NEW GLEAMING RECORD IS IN UNPLAYED, MINT CONDITION.
I am fed up having to include factory and record shop handling, especially when the labels have no form of spindle contact traces like this.
Yes, fingertips left feather light, near invisible traces and the metal stamping discs also had very thin lines that made an imprint, all that happened before the records were sold as brand new.
Experienced vinyl lovers can immediately tell the difference between stylus scratches or uncaring use, the middle of labels is the equivalent of a car s speedometer, zero miles is the same as zero spindle traces.
Nobody perfectly aligned the hole to a spindle in 1971 and yet I feel obliged to state the obvious, because not every ebay buyer experienced the early 1970 s or the reality of vinyl production, that continues to apply to 2015 records.
SIDE 1 Changes Oh You Pretty Things Eight Line Poem Life On Mars? Kooks Quicksand SIDE 2 Fill Your Heart Biff Rose / Paul Williams Andy Warhol Song For Bob Dylan Queen Bitch The Bewlay Brothers David Bowie - vocals, guitar, alto and tenor saxophone piano Mick Ronson - guitar, vocals mellotron Rick Wakeman - piano Trevor Bolder - bass trumpet Mick Woodmansey - drums All Songs Written By David Bowie, Except Fill Your Heart Recorded In April 1971 At Trident Studios, London.
Mick Ronson - arrangements Ken Scott - recording and mixing sound engineer.
Produced By Ken Scott David Bowie.
I love offering ultimate condition records and I am thrilled to offer this stunning first pressing of Hunky Dory , we all have we all have a personal favourite David Bowie 45 and LP, for me Hunky Dory is still Bowie s best album.
The songs alone make it compulsive listening because the sheer variety of musical styles never allowed it to become stale or ever sound dated.
I did check the lyrics for Life On Mars? from the insert, but even when typing them just now, but they just roll off the tongue like a fine wine, once you start the first verse, they just pop into your mind with the memorable melody.
As I wrote them I came to the conclusion this was such a loved album worldwide, there was very little I could contribute after giving all the pressing info and album credits.
All the pieces in the credits were like a jigsaw, apart from Rick Wakeman fresh from The Strawbs, if you do re-arrange them, you can create a completely different picture, like the Strawbs, Tony Visconti had vacated and Tom Scott was the co-producer and sound engineer.
The musicians on Hunky Dory would become the inhabitants or the life on Mars and evolve into Ziggy Stardust s Spiders From Mars and David Bowie would become Ziggy.
So this album was a very special link between David s 1960 s career and the phenomenon of the 1970 s decade in his adopted persona.
The music did not have to fit a theme and that was the magical part, Bowie was paying his dues to the Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan, with Lennon getting a name check as well.
Song For Bob Dylan speaks for itself and Andy Warhol and Queen Bitch acknowledged the Velvet Underground as his major inspirations, The Man Who Sold The World had revelled in the heavy rock of the Velvet s etc.
but in Hunky Dory I thoroughly enjoyed Bowie s return to the stunning melodies I had first heard when I bought the Space Oddity single in 1969.
Not that Hunky Dory neglected more serious subjects and heavy rock, a greatest balance of material creates masterpieces and this fantastic album effortlessly moved between the wonderful melodic pop music of Oh You Pretty Things and Quicksand .
That entered Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin territory with references to Crowley, the 1970 Led Zeppelin 3 had messages in the run-out grooves like Do What Thou Wilt , Bowie wrote a whole song about the occult.
Then you had the superb Changes as an opening track, it was only 1971 and Bowie had mapped out his future and predicted how the next decades would pan out for him.
On the subject of run-out grooves, I have no idea about the meaning of Bobil and Rasputin hand scribed on either side, but they are exlusive to the very first pressings.
In spite of critical acclaim Hunky Dory failed to sell enough copies to chart first time around, RCA only had to wait for the rise of Ziggy Stardust in 1972.
Then Hunky Dory shot up to No.3 in the British charts after Ziggy hit the big time, September 1972 was not too long to wait and new fans discovered such a stunning album,many grew to love it even more than Ziggy Stardust.
Well considering I had nothing to say, I did make a reasonable input, I will respect the unplayed status of the record and offer it how it has been since leaving Pye s pressing plant...unplayed in 44 years.
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