Yes - Yesterdays - Genuine MINT 1974 UK First Pressing LP with A1/B1 Matrices

	£		21
	$		28

Artist & Title: Yes – Yesterdays

MINT 1974 UK FIRST PRESSING 8-track LP compilation of early Yes recordings, including an up-tempo art-rock reworking of Paul Simon's 'America', in a picture sleeve with credits inner. The picture sleeve and inner sleeve are both in MINT condition and the vinyl looks – and sounds – MINT. A stunning copy of this early Yes compilation!
Highly desirable for its A1/B1 first pressing matrices, and Mint condition and increasingly difficult to find in good condition, this could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to add this superb rarity to your collection at an extremely advantageous price.

Catalogue Number: Atlantic ?– K 50048

Release date: 1974 (UK)

Overall Grade: MINT/MINT (LP/Cover)

Matrix/Runout: Side 1: K 50048-A1 PORKY   Side 2: K 50048-B1 PECKO

First UK press.
Picture labels.
Made in UK
? 1969, 1970, 1972
Cover design and illustration by Roger Dean
An Atlantic record distributed by WEA Records Ltd©and? 1974

This is the original UK version of the album.

This essential Yes compilation LP featuring tracks from their first two LPs is hardly ever offered for sale in this condition.

“Getting this one for the cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s America alone would be justified.”

This is the extremely rare real thing: a genuine Mint/Mint condition UK first pressing. The record, cover and inner sleeve are all in superb condition, without any obvious defects like scratches, tears, creases, stickers, writing, dog ears, stains and the like. See pics. All items are the genuine originals bought together by me in 1975 not reprints or replacements. The LP is the original UK 1974 stereo LP, which was only played occasionally on top-end audiophile equipment and lovingly cared for.

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

Yesterdays is a 1974 compilation album by the British progressive rock band Yes. Released as the band were about to explore their own solo projects, it consists mostly of material from their first two albums, Yes and Time and a Word. In addition, it features the b-side "Dear Father" and their cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "America" which was featured on an Atlantic Records sampler album in 1972 called The New Age of Atlantic. An edit of this extended recording was also released as a US single that year.
All of the tracks on this album feature Yes’s original line-up with Peter Banks and Tony Kaye except "America," which includes Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman.
This was the last Yes album until Drama to use cover artwork by Roger Dean. The front cover incorporates imagery from the cover of Time and a Word, while the back cover was designed to be used as an alternate front cover

“As far as compilation albums go this one is a great asset IMO. I listen to it regularly which can´t be said about Yes and Time and a Word.”

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

Take a little trip back, to Dear Father and Astral Traveller and a place called America too. Sure it’s product, designed to fill in the spaces while the band tested their wings: Olias of Sunhillow, Beginnings, Fish Out of Water, Ramshackled, The Story of I. Those works are worth hearing (some more than others), but if you haven’t heard their first two albums, Yesterdays beckons. The album brings the best bits from their first two albums to the fore: “Survival,” “Time And A Word,” etc. It also includes the non-album “Dear Father” and “America,” arguably the best tracks on here. The latter first appeared on a label compilation record called The Age of Atlantic (the snipe in the woods as it were) and is the only track on here to feature Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman. Otherwise it’s all about Banks and Kaye, who get a well-earned curtain call for their efforts (on vinyl anyway). The here’s-what-you-might-have-missed compilation isn’t anything new to the progressive woods of course. It’s been done to Renaissance (In The Beginning), Rush (Archives), Pink Floyd (A Nice Pair) and many others. But Yesterdays does it better by including some hard-to-find tracks and serving a genuine purpose in the band’s discography. Despite the fact that I personally enjoy “Beyond And Before” and “The Prophet,” I’ll let you off the hook if you own Yesterdays. Time And A Word is a brocaded bore; their first album interesting but unripened. Here was an opportunity to get acquainted with Yes before Howe and (later) Wakeman undertook the venture. It put a magical face on their first works by wrapping them into the Deanian fold, ushering them into the mythology proper.

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 Yes 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.

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