Rick Wakeman - No Earthly Connection - Rare MINT 1976 UK First Pressing LP

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Artist & Title: Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble – No Earthly Connection

Original MINT 1976 UK FIRST PRESSING 4-track vinyl LP in the original Near Mint picture sleeve with Mint illustrated credits/lyrics inner.
The record is in immaculate Mint condition and sounds as wonderful as ever, while the cover and inner sleeve fully merit an Excellent Plus grading (many dealers would describe them as Mint). See pics. A superb copy of one of the definitive progressive-rock concept albums.
Highly desirable for its A2/B2 first press matrices and Mint condition vinyl, and increasingly difficult to find in good condition on vinyl, this could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to add this superb rarity to your collection at an extremely advantageous price.

Catalogue Number: A&M Records ?– AMLK 64583

Release date: May 1976

Overall Grade: MINT/EX+ (LP/Cover)

Matrix (Runout): Side 1: AMLK•64583•A2    Side 2: AMLK•64583•B2

Labels: Original sound recording made by A & M Records Inc.
? 1976 A & M Records Inc.
Produced by Rick Wakeman
Words and music by Rick Wakeman
Rondor Music (London) Ltd.
Sleeve: Recorded at Le Chateau Studios, Herouville, France during January, February and March 1976
Sleeve printed and made in England by MacNeill Press Ltd., London, S.E.1

This seminal progressive-rock concept LP from Rick Wakeman at his creative peak is hardly ever offered for sale in this condition.

“If you like any of Rick Wakeman's albums or, for that matter, Yes, then this is a must have for your collection.”

This is the extremely rare real thing: a genuine Mint/EX+ condition UK first pressing. The record is in Mint condition and the cover and illustrated lyrics/credit inner are in Excellent Plus condition. All items are free from any major defects like scratches, tears, dog-ears, stickers, writing, stains or the like. See pics. All items are the genuine originals bought together by me in 1976, not reprints or replacements. The LP is the original 1976 UK stereo LP, which was only played once or twice on top-end audiophile equipment and lovingly cared for.

“The album is full of wonderful melodies and harmonies, with some hauntingly beautiful moments that stay long in the memory.”

THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF THIS ALBUM EVER OFFERED FOR SALE IN RECENT TIMES

No Earthly Connection is a 1976 progressive rock concept album by Rick Wakeman. It was recorded in France.
The LP record's sleeve attributes the album to Rick Wakeman and the English Rock Ensemble. In addition to Wakeman with his wide variety of keyboard instruments, including harpsichords, Mellotrons, Moog synthesizers, organs, and pianos, musicians on the album are vocalist Ashley Holt, Roger Newell (bass guitar and vocals), John Dunsterville (guitars, mandolin, and vocals), Tony Fernandez (drums and percussion), Martyn Shields (trumpet, French horn, and vocals), and Reg Brooks (trombone and vocals).
The album is currently out of print in Europe and the USA, but a remastered CD release is available in Japan and one is forthcoming in the States. There are currently no plans for an official CD reissue in the rest of the world.
The original art was created by Chris Moore at Moore Morris

This may be your only ONCE IN A LIFETIME chance to own this rare piece of music history in this condition.

“Overall, No Earthly Connection is a stylish collection of prog-rock pieces - neither as showy as Journey, nor as dazzling as some of Wakeman's other works, but more satisfying musically.”

Released in 1976, just as prog-rock's hold in the popular imagine was starting to slip, No Earthly Connection is, comparatively, a streamlined album by Rick Wakeman. It is not as elaborate and ambitious as its immediate predecessors -- which tackled Henry VIII, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, and King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table, respectively -- and only the length of a single vinyl album, with the first side devoted to the half-hour suite "Music Reincarnate" (it spills over to the second side in the original vinyl pressing) and the second splitting the difference between two songs, "The Prisoner" and "The Lost Cycle." Wakeman shows some slight hints of funk infatuation here -- "The Warning" works out its clavinet songs, with its second part buttressed by brass -- and the entirety of the "Music Reincarnate" side is a bit more forceful than expected in both its rhythms and attack. The other two songs have an element of breathing room -- even "The Lost Cycle," which begins with farting analogue synths that never quite disappear over the course of the track -- but they're more distinguished by the flourishes Wakeman lays over the basic track, indications of how the keyboardist is so taken with his technique he thinks of it as nothing special, just something that deserves to be on ample display.

A fantastic time warp example of this rarity in amazing condition, a true investment grade item - get it while you can!

AND IT MUST SELL IN THIS ONCE ONLY AUCTION

You can read more about this album and Rick Wakeman all over the web.

I pack my records professionally in stiff corrugated cruciform record boxes leaving the Vinyl (housed in anti-static bags) outside the Sleeve.

Postage discounts for multiple orders are available: £1 per additional LP, up to a maximum of 4, in the UK.
£4 per additional LP, up to a maximum of 4, in the Rest of the World.

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