ROLLING STONES 1st LP 1964 Decca MONO RAREST EVER LIGHTER COVER

	£		143
	$		189

On offer here is a VERY rare LP (especially in this condition!!!!) by The Rolling Stones called "Rolling Stones" and is an 1964 MONO UK Pressing on the UNBOXED 'Grooved' Decca label!!!! THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!!!!  THIS WAS THE ROLLING STONES FIRST LP EVER - AND VIRTUALLY NEVER TURNS UP FOR SALE!!!!  JUST TRY AND FIND ANOTHER ONE!!!!  THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER LPs ON THE DECCA LABEL - AND IS INCREDIBLY TOUGH TO LOCATE TODAY!!!!  AND BEFORE I GET MANY EMAILS ABOUT THE MATRIXES ETC - THIS LP PLAYS THE '4.06' VERSION OF 'TELL ME' (AS EXPECTED).  HOWEVER, WHAT MAKES THIS LP REALLY SPECIAL IS THAT IT IS THE ALL TIME RAREST PRESSING OF THIS LP EVER MADE - AND FEATURES THE LEGENDARY 'LIGHTER' COVER, WITH COMPLETELY DIFFERENT COLOURS & CLARITY!!!!   PLEASE READ ON BELOW TO SEE JUST HOW RARE THIS LP REALLY IS:-

THIS LPs COVER WAS ONLY EVER MADE LIKE THIS, IN LATE 1964/EARLY 1965 ONLY - AFTER COMPLAINTS HAD BEEN MADE ABOUT THE DARKNESS OF THE ORIGINAL COVERS!!!!  HOWEVER, IT WAS EVENTUALLY REJECTED AND CHANGED AGAIN, AFTER IT WAS MADE TOO LIGHT, AND THE COLOURS WERE INCORRECT!!!!  AS YOU CAN SEE ON THIS ULTRA RARE 'LIGHTER' COVER - IT HAS MANY MANY DIFFERENCES THAT ALL OTHER COVERS NEVER HAD.  HERE ARE THE DIFFERENCES IN DETAIL:-

1) ON THIS ULTRA RARE 'LIGHTER' COVER - THE CLARITY OF THE PICTURE OF THE BAND IS FAR FAR BETTER, AND FAR FAR CLEARER THAN ALL NORMAL 'RELEASED' COVERS!!!!  UNLIKE MOST 1ST PRESS COVERS, THE ROLLING STONES SIT VERY MUCH IN THE FOREGROUND, AND ARE NOT 'HIDDEN' BY THE DARKNESS!!!!

2) ON NORMAL 'RELEASED' COVERS THE BACKGROUND IS EITHER JET BLACK, OR AN EXTREMELY DARK BLUE/GREY COLOUR.  HOWEVER ON THIS ULTRA RARE 'LIGHTER' COVER - YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THAT THE BACKGROUND IS A MUCH LIGHTER SHADE OF 'GREENY/BROWN' INSTEAD!!!!  SO NOT ONLY IS THE COVER MUCH LIGHTER - BUT IT IS ALSO A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT COLOUR ASWELL!!!!

3) THE COLOURS OF THE ROLLING STONES THEMSELVES ARE VERY DIFFERENT.  IN PARTICULAR YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENT HAIR COLOURS OF EACH BANDMEMBER - SOMETHING WHICH IS NEAR IMPOSSIBLE ON THE DARKER COVERS!!!!

4) THE 'DECCA' LOGO IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER IS NEARLY ALWAYS THE SAME AS THE BACKGROUND COLOUR ON NORMAL 'RELEASED' COVERS - BUT ON THIS ULTRA RARE 'LIGHTER' COVER - YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THAT THE 'DECCA LOGO' IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT COLOUR COMPARED TO THE BACKGROUND!!!!

EVENTUALLY HOWEVER, ALL THIS EFFORT OF A RE-DESIGN WAS UNSUCCESSFUL - AND IT WAS ULTIMATELY REJECTED!!!!  IT WAS REJECTED AS BEING TOO LIGHT IN SHADE, AND THE WRONG BACKGROUND COLOUR.  HOWEVER, THIS 'LIGHTER' COVER, ALTHOUGH REJECTED - DID SERVE A PURPOSE EVENTUALLY!!!!  BECAUSE AS MOST ROLLING STONES FANS WILL ALREADY KNOW - CHANGES WERE MADE ON LATER COVERS OF THIS LP FROM 1965 & 1966 ONWARDS (THOUGH NOTHING LIKE AS DRASTIC AS THIS 'LIGHTER' COVER!).  HOWEVER, THESE EVENTUAL CHANGES WERE ONLY MARGINAL DIFFERENCES - SUCH AS FRACTIONAL LIGHTENING IN THE COLOUR, AND SLIGHTLY LESS THICKNESS TO THE COVERS AS THE 60s WORE ON.  HOWEVER NOTHING LIKE THIS 'LIGHTER' COVER WAS EVER MADE AGAIN, EITHER BEFORE OR SINCE - WHICH IS WHY IT IS ONE OF THE MOST DESIRABLE ROLLING STONES VARIATIONS EVER MADE!!!!  AND ALSO PLEASE NOTE - THIS COVER IS A 100% GENIUNE UK 1964 COVER IN EVERY RESPECT - BEING MADE BY 'MacNEILL PRESS', THE COMPLETE UK TEXT ALONG THE BOTTOM, BEING THE SAME SIZE AS OTHER 1964 COVERS (AND NOT LARGER LIKE THE LATE 1960s COVERS WERE!), AND HAVING THE USUAL DISTINCTIVE 'DECCA SPINE' - BEING 'PLEATED' ON EITHER END (LATER ONES DONT!)!!!!

BARELY ANY COPIES WERE EVER MADE OF THIS 'LIGHTER COVER' - AND IT WAS NEVER EVER USED AGAIN!!!!  IT IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE RAREST EVER VERSION OF THIS LP EVER MADE - AND THE CHANCES OF EVER SEEING ANOTHER ONE AGAIN ARE VIRTUALLY ZERO!!!!


NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS LP IS IN GREAT CONDITION!!!!  JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES!!!!  THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1964 MONO 'LIGHTER COVER' PRESSING ON THE UNBOXED 'GROOVED' DECCA LABEL, 'HANDLING/PLAYING' INNER SLEEVE AND ULTRA RARE 'MacNEILL' LAMINATED MONO 'TRIAL' COVER (WITH DIFFERENT SHADE, CLARITY, & COLOUR!)!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!!  This is the Decca UK MONO Pressing and is in GREAT condition!!!!  The record is pressed on THICK quality vinyl. The Cat. No is LK 4605 on the UNBOXED 'Grooved' Decca Label (see picture) and is a UK MONO Pressing!!!!

The record labels are in SUPERB condition (see pictures) with NO wear, NO writing, and only a few VERY light spindle marks!!!!  The vinyl is GREAT 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 nasty concentric marks AT ALL, only 3 or 4 VERY light hairlines, NO nasty 'tick' marks AT ALL, only 3 or 4 light scufflines, only 2 or 3 TINY surface marks, 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 record plays as STUNNINGLY as the visual!!!!  It plays with NO pops, barely ANY clicks, NO sticking, NO jumps, barely ANY crackle AT ALL, and only some EXTREMELY low level background sound on the run on grooves & gaps - NOT in the music AT ALL!!!!  The sound quality is simply SUPERB with NO distortion and NO groovewear either!!!!  The record must grade Very Good (PROPERLY graded, NOT trashed!) if not better - and is still a very VERY decent record indeed!!!!  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 'Handling/Playing' inner sleeve which is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  The ULTRA RARE 'MacNeill' Laminated MONO 'Lighter' Cover (with different shade, colour & clarity!) is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  It has NO edge wear, NO spinal wear, only VERY slight corner wear (NOT through the colour!), NO annotations, only a few VERY light creases (cover is VERY flat looking!), NO splits, shiny laminate, NO annotations, and NO writing!!!!  The opening edge is beautifully straight with barely ANY feathering AT ALL!!!!  Even the unlaminated back of the cover is in BRILLIANT condition with NO grubbyness, only 1 TINY wear trace to the bottom edge, NO ringwear, NO rubbing (apart from a VERY faint wear mark to the top left corner!), NO yellowing, and NO writing!!!!  This cover must grade Very Good+ if not better!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY!!!!

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