Label: DECCA RECORDS unboxed

Catalogue number: LK 5025

The matrices: XARL 9363P-2A

                      XARL 9364P-1A  

                       FIRST EVER PRESSING!

Year : 1969

Details of the specific copy: Complete copy,

condition: (VISUAL GRADING most of times)

The Sleeve : NEAR MINT

     Front Side  : Very beautiful, light crasing on back side ,

                               not any yellowing sign, not any writing.

•   Back Side : Light creasing no cuts no writing no ringwear  

• Spine: perfect, no edgewear, no bends , fully readbale.

•   Edges: No any edgewear or bend. perfect

• Spine: The spine is fine and fully readable .

The Labels: Side one label suffers from a sign let after I remive a sticker (some daker area as shown on the image) The second side label is perfectly clear with light only  spindle marks .

The Vinyls : Both sides looks like have been  played carefully VERY GOOD PLUS PLUS at least.

Not a mint copy but a solid player . Runs smoothly , without skips or pops . Warm mono sound with a few clicks on the slowest parts.

         A side: VERY GOOD PLUS PLUS  Very few  papers scuffs only, and even fewer thin hairline scrathes.

         B Side: VERY GOOD PLUS PLUS Very few  papers scuffs only, and even fewer thin hairline scrathes. jet black shiny ,

The Poster: Nice condition not cuts or writing or holes condition , glossy paper Uk press Poster.

Let It Bleed is the eighth British and tenth American album by English rock band The Rolling Stones, released in December 1969 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and London Records in the United States. Released shortly after the band's 1969 American Tour, it is the follow up to 1968's Beggars Banquet and the last album by the band to feature Brian Jones.

[edit]History

Although they had begun the recording of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" in May 1968, before Beggars Banquet had been released, recording for Let It Bleed began in earnest in February 1969 and would continue sporadically until October.[citation needed] Brian Jonesperforms on only two tracks, playing the autoharp on "You Got the Silver" and percussion on "Midnight Rambler". His replacement, Mick Taylor, plays guitar on two tracks, "Country Honk" and "Live With Me". Keith Richards, who had already shared vocal duties with Mick Jagger on "Connection", "Something Happened to Me Yesterday", and "Salt of the Earth", sang his first solo lead vocal on a Rolling Stones recording with "You Got the Silver".[citation needed]

The album was published in US as LP record, reel to reel tape and 8-track cartridge in 1969, and as a remastered CD in 1986. In August 2002, it was reissued in a remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records.

Released in December, Let It Bleed reached #1 in the UK (temporarily knocking The Beatles' Abbey Road out of the top slot) and number 3 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart in the US, where it eventually went double platinum.

[edit]Reception

In his 2001 Stones bio, Stephen Davis said of the album "No rock record, before or since, has ever so completely captured the sense of palpable dread that hung over its era."[6] Indeed, the day after its December 5 release is the date of the infamous Altamont Free Concert. But the album was critically well-received.

Let It Bleed is the second of the Stones' run of four studio LPs that are generally regarded as among their greatest achievements artistically, equalled only by the best of their great 45s from that decade. The other three albums are Beggars Banquet (1968), Sticky Fingers (1971), and Exile on Main Street (1972).[7]

In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Let It Bleed the 69th greatest album of all time, while in 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 28 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2001, the TV network VH1 placed Let It Bleed at number 24 on their best album survey. In 2003, it was listed as number 32 on the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

[edit]Cover

The cover displays a surreal sculpture designed by Robert Brownjohn.[8] The image consists of the Let It Bleed record being played by the tone-arm of an antique phonograph, and a record-changer spindle supporting several items stacked on a plate in place of a stack of records: a tape canister labelled Stones - Let It Bleed, a clock face, a pizza, a tyre and a cake with elaborate icing topped by figurines representing the band. The cake parts of the construction were prepared by then-unknown cookery writer Delia Smith.[9] The reverse of the LP sleeve[10] shows the same "record-stack" melange in a state of disarray. The artwork was inspired by the working title of the album, which was Automatic Changer.[11]

The album cover for Let It Bleed was among the ten chosen by the Royal Mail for a set of "Classic Album Cover" postage stamps issued in January 2010.[12][13]

[edit]Track listing

The track listing on the back of the album jacket did not follow the one on the album itself. According to Brownjohn, he altered the track listing purely for visual reasons; the correct order was shown on the record's label. Additionally, "Gimme Shelter" is rendered as "Gimmie Shelter" on the jacket.

All songs written and composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted. 

†Early U.S. editions of the album credit the song using Johnson's pseudonym Woody Payne

[edit]Personnel

• Mick Jagger – lead vocals, backing vocals, harmonica on "Gimme Shelter" and "Midnight Rambler"
• Brian Jones – autoharp on "You Got the Silver", percussion on "Midnight Rambler"
• Keith Richards – acoustic, electric, and slide guitar, bass guitar on "Live with Me", backing vocals, lead vocals on "You Got the Silver"
• Mick Taylor – electric guitar on "Live with Me", slide guitar on "Country Honk"
• Charlie Watts – drums (except "You Can't Always Get What You Want")
• Bill Wyman – bass guitar (except "Country Honk" and "Live with Me"), autoharp on "Let It Bleed", vibes on "Monkey Man"

• Ian Stewart – piano on "Let It Bleed"
• Nicky Hopkins – piano on "Gimme Shelter", "Live with Me", "You Got the Silver" and "Monkey Man"; organ on "You Got the Silver"
• Byron Berline – fiddle on "Country Honk"
• Merry Clayton – vocals, backing vocals on "Gimme Shelter" (credited as "Mary Clayton" on the LP and 2002 CD remaster)
• Ry Cooder – mandolin on "Love in Vain"
• Bobby Keys – Tenor saxophone on "Live with Me"
• Jimmy Miller – percussion on "Gimme Shelter", drums on "You Can't Always Get What You Want", tambourine on "Monkey Man"
• Leon Russell – piano and horn arrangement on "Live with Me"
• Jack Nitzsche – choral arrangements on "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
• Al Kooper – piano, French horn and organ on "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
• Nanette Workman – backing vocals on "Country Honk" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (not actress Nanette Newman as credited on the LP)
• Doris Troy – backing vocals on "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
• Madelaine Bell – backing vocals on "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
• Rocky Dijon – percussion on "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
• The London Bach Choir – vocals on "You Can't Always Get What You Want"[14]

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