LED ZEPPELIN - Led Zeppelin Ii

Item Description

Vinyl,
LP Album Stereo

This release shows a number of features taken from Australian pressings of Led Zeppelin II like:
- the typical cover grey on the back, with "Printed in the USA"
- the pressing ring seen on a couple of other pressing,
- the US stampers are used for a number of releases and most importantly, that very same stamper had been used by Festival Records for the 2nd AU pressing (the famous silver/green label unique to AU and NZ) for the local market Led Zeppelin II
- "MX" BAOI (found on bottom of labels) that is used for both CBS Artarmon and Festival (AU)
- misprint "Led Zeppelin 11" that is common to a number of AU pressings

but:
- differently vs most AU pressings is the rim text (bottom of the label): just "Atlantic Recording Corp.". This doesn't look AU at all and there's no other Zep II label like this
- the cat # / BAOI (MX162950): it's a bit unusual to see it far from the main cat # SD8236
- this is also similar to other Singaporean releases that I have and have seen (among other Black Sabbath, Zep, etc)
- mot important, this kind of white label Atlantic do not belong to Australia (not even for promo releases which just show a red round sticker on the labels)

this is most likely a Singaporean (possibly unofficial) pressing.