SPRING. Neon label

	£		465
	$		616

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Album will be shipped with at least recorded delivery within the U.K. for £4.25 P+P.

Outside the U.K postage charges will depend on location of buyer and method of postage required.

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SPRING

NEON LABEL

1st press.

Extremely sought after piece of vinyl history

Black Inner sleeve.

Excellent Vinyl.

Outer sleeve undamaged but shows some sign of age to the edge.

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Matrix info.

Side one AGBS 0521 - A - 1

Side one AGBS 0522 - B - 1

outer sleeve.

Original triple fold sleeve. Made & printed by HOWARDS PRINTERS (SLOUGH) LTD

Vinyl: Excellent condition

Sleeve: Very good condition

Artist: Spring.

Album: Spring

Label: RCA, NEON very clean and undamaged.

Format: Stereo.

Date of release: 1971.

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INNER SLEEVES:

The black polly lined Inner sleeve is in perfect condition,

PLAY GRADING:

After listening to all track on both sides of this album both sides played without problems. Just very slight static on the run in, and end run off. no skips or jumps.

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vinyl is graded as Excellent. According to the rare record price guide.

Vinyl labels have no unwanted writing on them and are undamaged. slight spindle marking.

Vinyl has no more than very light sleeve removal whispers. no visible scratches or marks other than these.

Track listing:

A side

The Prisoner (Eight By Ten) (5:34)

Grail (6:44)

Boats (1:53)

Shipwrecked Soldier (5:08)

B side

Golden Fleece (6:59)

Inside Out (4:49)

Song To Absent Friends (The Island) (2:47)

Gazing (5:54)

ABOUT SPRING:

Spring were a Leicester-based British progressive rock band that represented the early 1970s progressive rock movement. A one-shot band, it recorded only one album in its career, a self-titled LP released in 1971. Spring's music is notable for the use of the mellotron, with three of the its five members credited with playing that instrument on the album.

Spring originally consisted of Pat Moran (vocals), Ray Martinez (guitars), Kips Brown (keyboards), Pick Withers (drums) and Adrian Maloney (bass), all of whom had previously played in various local Leicester bands.

A turning point in Spring's fortunes happened after a gig in Cardiff, when the band's van broke down somewhere in the Welsh countryside, coincidentally very near where producer/engineer Kingsley Ward had recently set up Rockfield Studios. Ward would later marvel at the "coincidence of meeting a group with a broken down truck in your own home town when you have previously spent months tyrapsing around the country in search of talent". He was particularly intrigued by the fact that they owned a Mellotron, and "invited them down the following week for an audition with my brother Charles and myself", the outcome of which was "good enough for us to want to be involved with them". Several demo sessions followed. The band were rehearsing at Rockfield when producer Gus Dudgeon (of David Bowie and Elton John fame) dropped by to check the studio out, heard them play and expressed interest in producing them. A few months later, sessions took place at both Rockfield and London's Trident Studios, and the resulting album was released on the RCA/Neon label in 1971.

In spite of supporting Velvet Underground on a UK tour, plus Keith Christmas and The Sutherland Brothers on various dates, the band broke up in 1972 following aborted attempts at recording a second album. Two previously unreleased songs from these sessions (featuring new bassist Peter Decindis) appeared on The Laser's Edge's 1992 CD reissue of the album, along with "Fool's Gold" from the first album sessions. Moran later worked as sound engineer at Rockfield Studios, notably for Van der Graaf Generator and Robert Plant. he passed away in early 2011. Martinez became an in-demand session guitarist, working with the likes of Alkatraz, Michael Chapman, Gypsy, Tim Rose and Robert Plant. Pick Withers later became the drummer for Dire Straits, playing on their first four records.

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Returns are accepted providing that there is a problem that has not been covered in the above description, and the item is returned within seven days of receiving it., all items above £30 are sent recorded delivery to the U.K

The Packaged weight of these albums is 800 grams as there is two outer sleeves, two vinyl’s, two inners and one poster.

?Royal Mail Standard in the U.K will be £4.30. including packaging. Recorded delivery but not insured

To Europe is around £6.00 including packaging

Example of rest of the World.

USA £11-00

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Packaging.

All albums will be . Vinyl’s and inserts will be packed separately The complete package will then be placed into a stiff card package and two stiffeners added.

The package will be clearly marked

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Buyers address will be put on both sides of the package and also my own address just to be safe in case, god forbid the album was lost in the post.

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