GENESIS Genesis To Revelation LP 1969 1st + EXTRAS

	£		1,131
	$		1,350

On offer here is a VERY rare LP (especially in this condition!!!!) by Genesis called "From Genesis To Revelation" and is an ORIGINAL 1969 1st Press on the 1st Press UNBOXED Decca label!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!!!!  THIS WAS GENESIS'S FIRST LP EVER (AND IS THEIR RAREST BY FAR!) - AND VIRTUALLY NEVER TURNS UP FOR SALE!!!!  JUST TRY AND FIND ANOTHER ONE!!!!  BACK IN 1969 MOST RECORD SHOPS MISTAKENLY THOUGHT THIS WAS A RELIGIOUS LP(!) DUE TO COVER DESIGN & LPS TITLE AND PUT IT IN WRONG SECTION!!!!  BECAUSE OF THIS MISTAKE & UNDER PROMOTION BY DECCA - IT SOLD VIRTUALLY NOTHING ON RELEASE BACK IN 1969 - AND WAS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY DELETED!!!!  AS A RESULT IT IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE TO LOCATE!!!!  BUT THERE ARE TWO VERY IMPORTANT DETAILS - THAT MAKES THIS LP THE RAREST GENESIS LP EVER TO OFFERED FOR SALE!!!!  FIRSTLY - THIS LP HAS THE BEST CONDITIONED 1ST PRESS COVER I HAVE EVER SEEN FOR THIS LP!!!!  THIS COVER IS NOTORIOUS FOR TERRIBLE WEAR (WITH AN UNLAMINATED BLACK BACK!) - AND IS ONE OF THE MOST FRAGILE COVERS EVER MADE!!!!  BUT THE COVER ON THIS LP IS SIMPLY AMAZING AND IS AS CLOSE TO 'RECORD SHOP' CONDITION AS YOU WILL EVER FIND!!!!  JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES!!!!

BUT THE MAIN DETAIL THAT MAKES THIS LP THE RAREST GENESIS LP EVER - IS THAT IT IS COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL FULL SET OF LYRICS (WITH ANNOTATIONS BY THE BAND!) & MUSIC SCORE!!!!  I WILL EXPLAIN EXACTLY HOW THIS ALL CAME TO BE WITH 1 LP!!!!  THE 1 PREVIOUS OWNER OF THIS LP WORKED AT DECCA IN 1969 AND HELPED TO PREPARE THIS LP FOR RELEASE!!!!  HE LOVED THIS LP - AND WAS ALLOWED TO KEEP ALL PARTS OF THE LP FOR HIS OWN COLLECTION (SADLY THEY WOULD USUALLY HAVE BEEN THROWN AWAY!) AFTER HE HAD FINISHED OVERSEEING ITS RELEASE.  HE REMEMBERS THAT THERE WERE MANY PROBLEMS WITH GETTING THE LP READY FOR RELEASE.  FIRSTLY THE BAND HADNT EVEN DECIDED THE TITLE NAMES FOR ALL THE TRACKS - AND AT THE LAST MINUTE IT WAS DECIDED TO INCLUDE A 'LYRIC' INSERT!!!!   ONCE IT WAS DECIDED THAT THIS LP WAS TO HAVE A 'LYRIC' INSERT - IT WAS HIS JOB TO OVERSEE IT (ALONG WITH THE COVER & LABELS!)!!!!  HE HAD THE LYRICS WERE ROUGHLY 'HAND TYPED' ON 12 SHEETS OF PAPER (CORRESPONDING TO THE 12 SONGS ON THE LP!) AND SENT THEM OFF TO THE BAND FOR APPROVAL!!!!  HOWEVER - WHEN HE RECIEVED THEM BACK HE NOTICED THAT THERE WERE MANY CHANGES MADE TO THE LPS LYRICS - AND EVEN THE TITLES OF SOME SONGS (WHICH WERE CHANGED AT THE LAST MINUTE!)!!!!  SHOWN IN MANY OF MY PICTURES BELOW ARE MANY OF THESE CHANGES - BUT IN MORE DETAIL HE ARE THE CHANGES THAT WERE MADE:

AT THE LAST MINUTE THE TITLE OF ONE TRACK WAS CHANGED TO 'THE SERPENT' (YOU CAN SEE ON THE SHEET IT WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO CALLED 'BEWARE THE FUTURE').    IN THE TRACK 'AM I VERY WRONG' 1 WORD IN THE SECOND VERSE WAS CHANGED FROM 'EYES' TO 'EARS' (HANDWRITTEN CORRECTION).    THE TRACK 'IN THE WILDERNESS' WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO TITLED 'MUSIC' (THIS IS OVER-TYPED ON CORRECTION).   THE TRACK 'ONE DAY' WAS ORIGINALLY ENTITLED 'DONT GET ME WRONG' (AGAIN THIS IS AN OVERTYPED CORRECTION).    A WHOLE LINE WAS CHANGED IN THE LAST VERSE OF 'WINDOW' FROM 'LONG SEARCH IS OVER, THE' TO 'THUNDER AWAKES ME, IT'.    AND IN THE TRACK 'A PLACE TO CALL MY OWN' THERE ARE 2 MORE LYRIC CHANGES (HANDWRITTEN CORRECTION)!!!!  THERE ARE ALSO OTHER MORE MINOR HANDWRITTEN CORRECTIONS TO OTHER SONGS TOO!!!!  SO IT IS VERY OBVIOUS THE WHOLE LP COULD HAVE SOUNDED VERY DIFFERENT INDEED!!!!  AND IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT MY PICTURES BELOW - YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THESE CORRECTIONS!!!!  NOW - TWO PEOPLE MADE CORRECTIONS TO THE LYRICS - ONE IN RED PEN & ONE IN BLACK PEN.  THE RED PEN LOOKS LIKE A CORRECTION MADE AT THE DECCA FACTORY THEMSELVES (THE 1 PREVIOUS OWNER SEEMS TO REMEMBER THIS) AND DOES NOT CORRECT ANY LYRICS - BUT THE EX-DECCA EMPLOYEE (THE 1 PREVIOUS OWNER) DEFINITELY REMEMBERS THAT THE BLACK PEN CORRECTIONS WERE MADE BY A BANDMEMBER (WHEN THE LYRICS WERE GIVEN TO THEM FOR APPROVAL!).  NATURALLY ALTHOUGH HE IS 100% CERTAIN THE CORRECTIONS WERE MADE BY THE BAND - HE HAD NO WAY OF KNOWING WHICH BANDMEMBER MADE THEM!!!!  HOWEVER - THIS TRULY IS A 'PIECE OF HISTORY'!!!!  TO FIND THE ORIGINAL HANDTYPED LYRICS WHICH HELPED PREPARE THIS INCREDIBLE LP - WITH 'ANNOTATIONS' BY THE BAND - STILL COMPLETE WITH THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING EVER MADE IS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE & OBVIOUS UNIQUE!!!!  THIS REALLY IS A 'ONCE IN A LIFETIME' CHANCE FOR ANY GENESIS FAN TO OWN WHAT MUST CONSIDERED AS THE MOST IMPORTANT GENESIS RECORD EVER TO COME UP FOR SALE - EVER!!!!   

BUT NOT ONLY THAT - BUT THE 1 PREVIOUS OWNER ALSO KEPT THE ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE TO 'SILENT SUN' - WHICH HE PUT WITH THE LP!!!!  THE 'SILENT SUN' 45 WAS RELEASED SEPARATELY TO THE LP OF COURSE - (IT WAS THE BANDS FIRST EVER 45!) - AND AGAIN THE MUSIC SCORE HAS MINOR HANDWRITTEN CORRECTIONS.  HE REMEMBERS THE MUSIC SCORE WAS INTENDED TO BE USED AS A BASIS FOR PRINTED SHEET MUSIC (AS WAS CUSTOMARY WITH SINGLES AT THE TIME!) - BUT HE CANNOT REMEMBER IF THIS EVER TOOK PLACE.  EITHER WAY - THIS MAKES THIS LP EVEN RARER STILL!!!!  BECAUSE NOT ONLY DOES THIS LP HAVE THE FULL SET OF HANDTYPED LYRICS (WITH ANNOTATIONS BY THE BAND!) FOR THE LP - BUT IT ALSO COMES WITH THE ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE TO 'SILENT SUN' - THE BANDS FIRST EVER 45!!!! 

NOT ONLY THAT, BUT AS YOU WOULD EXPECT FROM THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING EVER MADE - IT HAS THE 'EARLIEST POSSIBLE 1/B 1/B MOTHER & STAMPER CODINGS!!!!  AND THIS CLEARLY SHOWS THAT THIS IS THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING EVER MADE - ON THE VERY FIRST DAY OF PRESSING - WAY BEFORE THE RELEASE DATE!!!!  NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS LP IS IN ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT CONDITION!!!!  THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1969 UK 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING ON THE 1ST PRESS UNBOXED DECCA LABEL, 1ST PRESS 1/B 1/B MOTHER & STAMPER CODINGS, 1ST PRESS BLUE STEREO INNER SLEEVE, 1ST PRESS 'LYRIC' INSERT, A FULL SET OF HANDTYPED 'LYRICS' ON 12 SEPARATE SHEETS WITH ANNOTIATIONS BY THE BAND!), THE MUSIC SCORE TO SILENT SUN', AND 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS LAMINATED 'ROBERT STACE' COVER (WITH 1ST PRESS MONO/STEREO EYE HOLE ON THE REVERSE!)!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!!  This is the ORIGINAL Decca UK 'Earliest' 1st Pressing from 1969 and is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  The record is pressed on THICK quality vinyl.  The Cat. No is SKL 4990 on the ORIGINAL 1st Press UNBOXED Decca label (see picture) and is a 1969 Stereo 1st Pressing!!!!

The record labels are in STUNNING condition (see pictures) with NO writing, NO wear, and only a few light spindle marks!!!!  The vinyl is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  Most of these 60s LPs had been to a lot of wild parties and are usually found totally worn out, and almost unplayable. This one is NOT and has NO scratches, only 2 or 3 VERY light hairlines, only 2 or 3 MEGA light scufflines, and only a VERY few of the lightest paper scuffs only visible under light!!!!  THE RECORD STILL RETAINS ITS ORIGINAL 'JUST PRESSED' LOOK!!!!  It is also great to find that the playing of the record is as STUNNING as the visual!!!!  It plays with NO nasty loud pops, barely ANY clicks AT ALL, NO jumps, NO sticks, a VERY brief surface sound on 1 run on groove, and barely ANY crackle!!!!  Not only that but the sound quality is SUPERB with NO groovewear and NO distortion either!!!!  The record must grade Very Good++ if not better!!!!  Believe me this record is NOT overgraded in ANY way!!!! I use STRICT RC grading standards - it is not in my interest not to!!!! Brillant!!!!  The record also comes in its ORIGINAL 1st Press Blue Stereo inner sleeve which is in SUPERB condition!!!!  THE MEGA RARE INSERT IS IN SUPERB CONDITION AND CLEARLY HASNT EVER LEFT THE COVER!!!!  ALL THE ORIGINAL 'HAND-TYPED' LYRIC SHEETS & ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE ARE IN AWESOME CONDITION - AND HAVE BEEN KEPT INSIDE THE COVER EVER SINCE IT WAS FIRST MADE - BACK IN 1969!!!!  The 1st Press Laminated 'Robert Stace' Cover is in AWESOME condition - and must be one of the BEST conditioned 1st Press covers left in existence!!!!  It has NO edge wear, NO spinal wear, barely ANY corner wear AT ALL (NOT through the colour), barely ANY creases AT ALL (cover is VERY flat looking indeed!), AWESOME shiny UNGLAZED laminate, and NO writing!!!!  The opening edge is beautifully straight with NO feathering!!!!  Even the unlaminated back is in AWESOME condition with NO writing, NO yellowing, NO ringwear, NO record impression(!), NO rubbing, and NO grubbyness!!!!  This cover is simply IMPOSSIBLE to find like this and MUST grade Excellent++++ if not better!!!!  AWESOME COVER!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!! 

HAVE A LOOK AT MY PICTURES - I DO MY BEST TO SHOW THE RECORD FROM ALL ANGLES AND MAKE THE PICTURES AS CLEAR AS POSSIBLE - THERE IS NOTHING TO HIDE!!!! It really is a GREAT looking LP and it is truly rare to find any copies of this MEGA RARE LP in this sort of condition!!!! THIS WILL BE YOUR ONLY CHANCE TO BUY AN ORIGINAL 1969 UK 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSING OF "FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION" BY GENESIS, IN BRILLIANT CONDITION!!!!  Dont forget to take a look at all my other items including many other TOP LPs and contact me with any queries you may have. P&P £3 in the UK, £4 Europe, £6 Rest Of The World (Postal discounts are available - see below for details).  Paypal, Bank Transfers, Cheques, International Money Orders, and Postal Orders accepted. Thanks for looking! Cheers!!!!!

 

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