Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here LP SHVL 814 UK 1st Press A-1/B-3 Inner EX/VG++
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Description
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here LP SHVL 814 UK 1st Press A-1/B-3 Inner EX/VG++
Artist: Pink Floyd
Title: Wish You Were Here
Label: Harvest
Catalogue Number: SHVL 814 / 0C 064-96918
Country: UK
Released: 1975
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Matrix / Runout
Side A: SHVL 814 A-1
Side B: SHVL 814 B-3
Condition
Sleeve: EX
Original UK picture sleeve in excellent EX condition. Artwork remains bright and clean with sharp edges, strong corners, and a fully legible spine showing only minimal, subtle age-toning around the white margins. Complete with its original heavy-card picture/lyric inner sleeve with notched corners (SHVL 814).
Record: VG++
Retains brilliant original surface gloss across both sides with exceptionally clean playing surfaces showing only faint paper-handling lines under direct light. Play-tested: delivers dynamic, wide-stage audio reproduction throughout with quiet passages playing crisp and clear. Handshake labels are immaculate on both sides.
Track Listing
Side 1
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Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
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Welcome To The Machine
Side 2
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Have A Cigar
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Wish You Were Here
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Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX)
Description
Offered here is an original UK first pressing LP of Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd, released on Harvest Records in 1975.
This desirable early issue features the earliest A-1 / B-3 machine-stamped matrix runout details. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, this progressive rock tour-de-force features iconic classics including Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Welcome To The Machine, Have A Cigar (featuring Roy Harper), and the immortal title track Wish You Were Here.
Housed in its original Hipgnosis-designed picture sleeve complete with the original heavy-card inner sleeve featuring notched top corners.
Grading EX/VG++, this is a top-tier, great-playing copy of a true progressive rock classic.
Please Note
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Genuine UK Harvest Records original 1st pressing (SHVL 814).
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Desirable early A-1 / B-3 matrix runout stampers.
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Includes original heavy card picture/lyric inner sleeve with notched corners.
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Professionally cleaned, play-tested, and accurately graded.
Professionally Prepared
Every record we sell is carefully inspected and professionally prepared before dispatch.
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Ultrasonically cleaned using our Degritter record cleaning machine.
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Discs housed in new premium anti-static rice paper inner sleeves while retaining original paper inners.
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Housed in a premium protective outer sleeve.
Packaging
Your record will be packed to the highest standard using:
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Premium heavy-duty LP mailer.
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Oversized cardboard stiffeners.
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Records shipped outside the sleeve to prevent seam splits during transit.
Buy with confidence from Impala Records.
Please study all photographs carefully as they form part of the description and condition report.
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