7 INCH MADONNA Lucky Star UK SUNGLASSES P/S

	£		520
	$		621

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The item available here is a copy of the mega rare original September 1983 edition of MADONNA's "LUCKY STAR" in it's SEVEN INCH SINGLE EDITION and along with it's original SUNGLASSES design picture sleeve ! ! !  The SIRE record label on this item is also the earliest edition which features a much larger SIRE logo design and was issued only a few months before SIRE records changed their UK label design to the smaller SIRE logo for all of their future releases (which include Madonna's November 1983 release "HOLIDAY" and of course the re-release of "LUCKY STAR" in February 1984)  The re-release in 1984 had exactly the same catalogue number (W 9522) but the label design and picture sleeve had changed from the 1983 edition available here.  I have owned this copy since the original week of release in 1983 and until now have been reluctant to part with it.  The vinyl is still shiny and generally looks in pretty good condition although when looking under a good light I can see there are definite signs of use as there are light surface scratch marks  (best described as paper scuffs), but it's nothing too serious, but I just want to be as honest as I can with the description.  The picture sleeve has no splits at all, although there is some minor rubbing on the bottom edge and both sides of the picture sleeve have a few creases here and there (but I am probably describing this at it's possible worst, and anybody can see exactly for themselves how this really looks from the original scans I made today, which isn't bad at all.  Considering just how impossibly rare this is, and how infrequently it is offered for sale, this really is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be one of only a select handful of fans who own one of MADONNA's earliest and rarest 7" vinyl releases.

LUCKY STAR . . .  and it's UK record release history

From my experience it seems this original UK 7" edition of "LUCKY STAR" was withdrawn from sale only one week after it's original September 1983 release as it really was absolutely impossible to obtain another copy from the record company after only one week!  Back in those days I was working at the local branch of the HMV chain store, and as I was also an over enthusiastic record collector with more spare money than sense, I collected one copy of every British 7" single release.  Many of the records released each week were not available directly at the shop as they were not priorities for the record company and had to be specially ordered, and MADONNA's "LUCKY STAR" was certainly a low priority release for her record company back in September 1983  (just the same as "EVERYBODY" some nine months earlier) and was not even stocked on 7" by the major record shops like HMV and Virgin.  I had noticed "LUCKY STAR" in the Record Mirror dance charts some weeks earlier and with also reading a review by James Hamilton, I ordered a copy of the 7" vinyl edition some weeks before the release date and in hindsight was very lucky to have the one copy that the shop received that week reserved for me.  I did try to order a second copy for a friend the following week and then for about six more weeks but the delivery invoices each week described the item as out of stock and then finally around the 6th week after it's release the invoice described the item as deleted.  By this time, November 1983 Madonna's latest dance track "HOLIDAY" was already buzzing around the club scene with a far better reception in the clubs than "LUCKY STAR" had done and as for Madonna's UK singles history, well everybody knows what happened with "HOLIDAY" and everything else that came after !  I have only ever seen this early UK 7" edition of "LUCKY STAR" available for sale a couple of times and the last one, which from the description would appear to be in a similar condition to the copy I have on auction this week, and was also auctioned on eBay in April 2005 and eventually sold for £775 (or $1,370 or EUR 1,148 equivalent).  This item even appeared in the UK's RECORD COLLECTOR magazine as one of eBay's Top Ten bids of the month (details of this can be seen on the picture scans).  This is one of my prize possession rarities and has been sitting in my record collection for more than 20 years now, so I will certainly be sad to finally see it go.  However if it doesn't reach the reserve price, and I would be looking for at least around two thirds of the price that the previous copy sold for last time, then I will certainly not be disappointed either!

LUCKY STAR ... some details about the UK 12" Sunglasses  edition

Although the 12" version of Madonna's "LUCKY STAR" with the sunglasses sleeve is also quite rare now (although it can not be compared anything like the extreme rarity of the 7" I have on auction), it does seem to be long forgotten that the 12" 'sunglasses' picture sleeve design was also re-released back into the shops in 1985, and along with most of Madonna's other earlier 12" single releases was part of a HMV chain store's promotional campaign for MADONNA around the time she was hitting number one with "INTO THE GROOVE".  I was working for HMV at the time and clearly remember the shop display with racks of each Madonna 12 inch.  The 'sunglasses' edition of "LUCKY STAR" was one of the best sellers of the 1985 campaign being the only one that most MADONNA fans hadn't owned the first time around!  Even these 1985 re-releases were quite limited though and once the initial batches had sold out they were no longer available after a few weeks.   For some reason MADONNA's earlier 12" release "EVERYBODY" was not re-released on 12" in 1985 and was therefore not included in the promotional campaign.  I always wondered why Warner's decided to re-press the original 12" sunglasses sleeve design for a limited run in 1985 and not the second 'television' design sleeve that had been used on the successful 1984 releases.  There is every possibility they were the original 'deleted' copies from the warehouse as the second 'television sleeve' had already been exhausted.   After this copies were available to shops from Warners but by then only issued in the black Warner's die cut sleeve of the mid 1980's period.

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I have been enthusiastically collecting and selling records for more than 20 years and with having owned a record shop during the 1980's to the early 1990's I was in a position to store one copy each of a great many items for my own private collection. The majority of these records have never been played even once due to the large amount of items I kept back each week. I have recently moved to a new house and with not having as much storage space as earlier I have now decided to trim down my large collection of many thousands of records and CD's. Good luck with your bidding! 

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LUCKY STAR . . . 

The item available here is a copy of the mega rare original September 1983 edition of MADONNA's "LUCKY STAR" in it's SEVEN INCH SINGLE EDITION and along with it's original SUNGLASSES design picture sleeve ! ! !  The SIRE record label on this item is also the earliest edition which features a much larger SIRE logo design and was issued only a few months before SIRE records changed their UK label design to the smaller SIRE logo for all their forthcoming releases, although they changed back to the larger SIRE logo later in 1984.  Sire used the smaller SIRE logo on Madonna's November 1983 release "HOLIDAY" and of course the re-release of "LUCKY STAR" in February 1984 and "BORDERLINE").  The re-release in 1984 had exactly the same catalogue number (W 9522) but the label design and picture sleeve had changed from the 1983 edition available here.  I have owned this copy since the original week of release in 1983 and until now have been reluctant to part with it.  The vinyl is still shiny and generally looks in pretty good condition although when looking under a good light I can see there are definite signs of use as there are light surface scratch marks  (best described as paper scuffs), but it's nothing too serious, but I just want to be as honest as I can with the description.  The picture sleeve has no splits at all, although there is some minor rubbing on the bottom edge and both sides of the picture sleeve have a few creases here and there (but I am probably describing this at it's possible worst, and anybody can see exactly for themselves how this really looks from the original scans I made today, which isn't bad at all.  Considering just how impossibly rare this is, and how infrequently it is offered for sale, this really is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be one of only a select handful of fans who own one of MADONNA's earliest and rarest 7" vinyl releases.

LUCKY STAR ... some details about the UK 12" Sunglasses  edition

Although the 12" version of Madonna's "LUCKY STAR" with the sunglasses sleeve is also quite rare now (although it can not be compared anything like the extreme rarity of the 7" I have on auction), it does seem to be long forgotten that the 12" 'sunglasses' picture sleeve design was also re-released back into the shops in 1985, and along with most of Madonna's other earlier 12" single releases was part of a HMV chain store's promotional campaign for MADONNA around the time she was hitting number one with "INTO THE GROOVE".  I was working for HMV at the time and clearly remember the shop display with racks of each Madonna 12 inch.  The 'sunglasses' edition of "LUCKY STAR" was one of the best sellers of the 1985 campaign being the only one that most MADONNA fans hadn't owned the first time around!  Even these 1985 re-releases were quite limited though and once the initial batches had sold out they were no longer available after a few weeks.   For some reason MADONNA's earlier 12" release "EVERYBODY" was not re-released on 12" in 1985 and was therefore not included in the promotional campaign.  I always wondered why Warner's decided to re-press the original 12" sunglasses sleeve design for a limited run in 1985 and not the second 'television' design sleeve that had been used on the successful 1984 releases.  There is every possibility they were the original 'deleted' copies from the warehouse as the second 'television sleeve' had already been exhausted.   After this copies were available to shops from Warners but by then only issued in the black Warner's die cut sleeve of the mid 1980's period.

LUCKY STAR ... some details about the UK 12" Sunglasses  edition

Although the 12" version of Madonna's "LUCKY STAR" with the sunglasses sleeve is also quite rare now (although it can not be compared anything like the extreme rarity of the 7" I have on auction), it does seem to be long forgotten that the 12" 'sunglasses' picture sleeve design was also re-released back into the shops in 1985, and along with most of Madonna's other earlier 12" single releases was part of a HMV chain store's promotional campaign for MADONNA around the time she was hitting number one with "INTO THE GROOVE".  I was working for HMV at the time and clearly remember the shop display with racks of each Madonna 12 inch.  The 'sunglasses' edition of "LUCKY STAR" was one of the best sellers of the 1985 campaign being the only one that most MADONNA fans hadn't owned the first time around!  Even these 1985 re-releases were quite limited though and once the initial batches had sold out they were no longer available after a few weeks.   For some reason MADONNA's earlier 12" release "EVERYBODY" was not re-released on 12" in 1985 and was therefore not included in the promotional campaign.  I always wondered why Warner's decided to re-press the original 12" sunglasses sleeve design for a limited run in 1985 and not the second 'television' design sleeve that had been used on the successful 1984 releases.  There is every possibility they were the original 'deleted' copies from the warehouse as the second 'television sleeve' had already been exhausted.   After this copies were available to shops from Warners but by then only issued in the black Warner's die cut sleeve of the mid 1980's period.