KING CRIMSON - Islands

Item Description

Vinyl,
LP Album Stereo

This 1st edition comes in a sleeve with flipback.
Released on a pink rim palm tree label with a gatefold lyrics inner sleeve with inside opening.

This version has a side A label with slightly tighter leading (line spacing) between song titles than that found on the otherwise identical [r=1578634]. The two label variants were likely both in use at the time of the very first pressings. Both versions have the tighter leading on their side B labels. There is also a third version with wider leading on both labels: [r=32403417]

℗ 1971 (on center labels).
Recorded at Command Studios, Piccadilly, London.
Produced for E.G. Records.
All songs published by E.G. Music Ltd. © 1971.
Printed and made by the E.J. Day Group, London and Bedford.

Catalogue numbers:
- ILPS-9175 on center labels
- ILPS 9175 on inner sleeve
- no designations on outer sleeve whatsoever

This version has a hidden track (1:36), about 1 minute after the end of 'Islands' side B. It is an excerpt from a 'Prelude: Song of the Gulls' studio session (R. Fripp talking and ensemble instruments tuning). It does appear also on CD issues, again after 1 minute of silence.

All runout variants are stamped.