PINK FLOYD - Obscured By Clouds

Item Description

Vinyl, , 1st pressing
LP Album Stereo

1st UK issue has the 'normal' cut matrixes SHSP 4020 A-1 / SHSP 4020 B-1. Additional letters and/or digits are mothers/stampers identifiers (see variants).

Harvest labels.

Original sleeve has pinched ends to the spine with mat-finished textured sleeve and rounded corners (see images).

Text position on label side B has two variants (see images).

Labels:
Top rim text :
The Gramophone Co.Ltd. All rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved.

Boxed "EMI" logo
℗ 1972 The Gramophone Company Limited
World Copyrights Ltd.

Bottom rim text :
Made in GT Britain.
Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting, and copying of this record prohibited.

Backcover:
E.M.I Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd)
Hayes • Middlesex • England
Made and printed in Great Britain

Harvest - Regd. Trade Mark of The Gramophone Company Ltd - A Company of The [url=https://www.discogs.com/label/359207]EMI[/url] Group

7206 TPS Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd

Subtitle (backcover):
Music from La Vallée


Note:
First cut (end of runouts A-1 B-1) was quickly rejected because of too much high-end eq (see "Pink Floyd in Pompeii" film).
This copy has got this distortion.

Some copies were exported to France with a white round sticker on front cover (IMPORT england EMI PATHE MARCONI).

Two type of EMI inners are known for this album:
- plain white one with "PATENT Nos. 1,125,555," and "MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN" on bottom, with shaped corners and flipback.
- polyline (plastic bag inside) with advertising of other LPs, on bottom has "THE GREATEST RECORDING ORGANISATION IN THE WORLD" on one side and EMI's address on the other side, with shaped corners and flipback.

All runouts are stamped.