BLIND FAITH - Blind Faith

Item Description

Vinyl, , B&W Sleeve
LP Album Stereo

Compared to [r=13598395], this version has on labels:
1. Bold letters on producer's and arrangement credits.
2. The word "and" is in the third line of the arrangement credits.

Cat# on spine and back cover '583 059B', on labels '583059'.
℗ 1969

Publishers:
A1, A2, B1: Island
A3: Southern
A4: Throat
B2: P. E. Baker

[a=Steve Winwood] and [a=Rick Grech] appear through the courtesy of [l=Island Records Ltd.]

Printed and made by MacNeill Press
Manufactured by Polydor Records Limited London

When Blind Faith was promoted before release - there was a lot of 'outrage' because of the 'girl' cover. Many companies (and in some cases whole countries) refused to sell the LP with the 'girl' cover. In the UK it was expected that many shops would refuse to stock the LP with the 'girl 'cover' - so quickly another cover had to be developed. However many shops in the UK 'rolled over' and stocked the 'girl' cover anyway - which of course is why the 'girl cover' is so common today. However a very very few shops decided not to stock it - and so this 'other' cover was developed. However not many of these covers were ever sold at all. The cover that was developed for shops that refused to sell the 'girl' cover is very different from the standard (and common) cover!!!
It is a single sleeve which is fully laminated. It is very probable that this mega rare cover was only stocked for a very short amount of time during the records chart run - and once the 'hype' and 'shock' about the cover had subsided - the few shops that had refused to stock the cover soon went back to stocking the standard cover.

Runouts are stamped, except 'DC 264' in variant 4 which is etched.