Vinyl: JOHN LENNON Imagine LP GENUINE UK 1st PRESS EXCLUSIVE TO OCT 1971 UNPLAYED MINT 1st ISSUE SHAPED COVER, POSTER, POSTCARD & LYRIC INNER

Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky. Imagine all the people, Living for today. Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too. Imagine all the people, Living life in peace. You may say that I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one, I hope someday you'll join us, And the world will be as one. Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can. No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people, Sharing all the world. You may say that I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, And the world will live as one.

JOHN LENNON: "Imagine" LP. VERY FIRST UK PRESSING, 10th OCTOBER, 1971. A John Lennon masterpiece and a huge selling album in every decade every since, tracing the UK genuine first pressings is very easy because every item was unique to October, 1971 and "Imagine" is stacked with exclusive features. An unplayed first pressing is very rare, confirmed by easily marked textured picture Apple labels, complete lack of any spindle contact traces, I must and will respect that rarity and not play the ultimate condition first issue record myself. SOFTLY TEXTURED APPLE LABEL, WITH JOHN'S PICTURE ON SIDE 1: PAS 10004. SIDE 2's LABEL HAS THE UNIQUE FIRST PRESSING ONLY TEXT FOR "Oh My Love." "All Songs Published By Northern Songs Ltd. NCB" is on both sides, but Side 2 also has this legal disclaimer: "Joint Copyright Claimed By Ono Music Ltd" for "Oh My Love." All Paul and John's first pressing only records from this very difficult early 1970's period, have some form of copyright text for new co-written material. In the wake of the Beatles breaking up in May, 1970, they were involved in legal courtroom battles and attempts to break free from outside ownership of their solo song publishing. That was still contractually tied into the no longer functioning 'Beatles' and 'Lennon and McCartney' had severed their songwriting partnership in May 1970, they were solo artists and no longer working together, well, they were not even talking to each other! If they added another name to their's as co-composers, 'Northern Songs' still insisted on collecting 'Lennon / McCartney' song publishing royalties. John & Yoko and Paul & Linda countered that greed by forming new music publishing companies, to at least have the copyrights shared when they were in new songwriting partnerships. Not much to ask when they were outside of the previous contract that had earned untold fortunes from those 'Lennon / McCartney' songs. Not according to 'Northern Songs' though, they insisted they owned the rights to anything written by John and Paul individually, based on the contract signed way back in March,1963, after the original 'Dick James' agreement. It was still only a year after the Beatles had broken up and none of legal disputes had been resolved yet, even if "Imagine" was now John's second solo album since the Beatles disbanded. MAITRIX: YEX 865 - 1U / YEX 866 - 1U Please read on below, because this genuine 'first of the first' maitrix configurations does NOT exclusively belong to the authentic October, 1971 first pressings. Including the above "Joint Copyright Claimed By Ono Music Ltd" and heavyweight, deep grooved 1971 vinyl, if every single one of the features I will detail here is in place, then the above maitrix does indeed signify the 'first of the first' maitrix machine stamping. EMI STAMPING CODES; AD 2 / AL ? The consistency of first pressings is once again established, nearly six months ago I sold a first pressing of "Imagine," it was in the same true Mint condition and had all the exclusive features. This first pressing was pressed in the same batch and from the same mothers, only the actual order of the record's pressing differ. The coded letters at 3 o'clock had to be changed far, far more than the 9 o'clock digits representing the mothers. I will now repeat exactly the same comments I made in November, 2016, this has nothing to do with coincidences, just the meticulous indexing that guaranteed perfect sound for every record made. You cannot say anything else when the legendary George Peckham had signed his logo next to the perfectly clear digit on Side 1. Side 1 was sourced from the second mother, Side 2's digit at 9 o'clock in the run-out grooves is totally unreadable, maybe '1' or '2', but just about anything, so I am unable to give to give a positive interpretation. With '2' on Side 1, there is no question it was pressed at the beginning of the records first made for releasing on the 10th October, 1971. I have included the '2' digit in a close up picture, as the logo of the highly respected sound engineer who first mastered "Imagine" in Britain, was hand scribed very close to it. The same was not true for the maitrix on Side 2, showing a 'blob' of unformed plastic, no problem there with the wealth of unique features attached to the very first pressings of "Imagine." WITH GEORGE PECKHAM'S LOGO'S SCRIBED ON EITHER SIDE IN THE RUN-OUT GROOVES, HE WAS THE UK'S FINEST EVER VINYL CUTTER; "Pecko" & "Porky'" "

"Gimme Some Truth, I Only Want The Truth..... (John Lennon, 1971)

All re-issues have that in the run-out grooves, most copies being sold on ebay are indeed later 1970's re-issues, but straight after John was murdered, the 1980's pressings of "Imagine" were made in astronomical numbers and EMI still used the same 'YEX 865 - 1U / YEX 866 - 1U' maitrix, there any similarity ended. The thin cardboard cover was not laminated on both sides, a thin paper poster with a sheen surface was inside with with an equally thin postcard, there was not a lyric inner sleeve, just a standard 1980's EMI type, usually dated on the bottom of one side. The vinyl was painfully thin and so was the sound, but based entirely on "Pecko" & "Porky'" and the maitrix, those plentiful 1980's pressings are being presented on ebay as the 1971 first issues. For genuine very first pressings like this, unused /unplayed condition for all the items is extremely rare , I must stress again, the details given here are exclusive to only very first printed items and of course to the top standard 1971 first pressed EMI / Apple vinyl. VERY FIRST ISSUE ONLY, UNIQUELY SHAPED FULLY LAMINATED FRONT & BACK COVER, THERE WAS NOT A SPECIFIC PRINTER CREDIT GIVEN, JUST "Printed In England" ON THE BACK BOTTOM RIM. ALWAYS A MAJOR CLUE RECORD COMPANIES WERE USING MORE THAN ONE OR SEVERAL PRINTERS, DUE TO THE DISTINCTIVE DESIGN,'Garrod' MADE THIS SHAPE IN THE 60's , A FLAT MAIN SECTION, WITH THE TOP AND BOTTOM TAPERED INTO POINTED ENDS. I HAVE TAKEN AN EXTENDED CLOSE UP PICTURE OF THE TOP SECTION OF THE SPINE, WITH THE FULL LP TITLES AND INCLUDING TO THE END. 1.) The spine has pointed endings with the main part flat, the distinctive gradually tapered pointed endings, suggesting it was 'Garrod & Lofthouse' who made the first issue only covers. 2.) The top and bottom edges are not folded flat or square, a sloping or 'bowed' like finish to exactly match where the contours of the spine's initial tapering position, before becoming pointed, therefore a sloping shape to the top & bottom edges. Depending on individual cover's assembling and gluing, the 'bowed' shape can be on the front or back, often both or a mixture for the top and the bottom. 3.) The front or the back only, has the laminated edges finished just before the top & bottom edges furthest points, not wrapped over them. I have never seen the front and finished on either side, it is possible there might be a few out there, but after all those years I do not believe they exist. I will state the fixing potions are always on one side only, if this sounds too complex please don't worry because specific details as intricate as this were always a specialist field, my close up picture of the top of the spine will easily identify these unique, first issue only covers 4.) In spite of the spine's shape, there was not a ridge created where the front and back's vertical edges meet the spine. So the front's far left side and the back's far right side slope down towards the spine, creating yet another dipping effect that no other "Imagine" cover was ever made like again. 5.) Without the ridges alongside the spine, the laminate was easily and perfectly smoothed down as it was wrapped over the spine, I have never seen one of these rare very first issue covers where the laminate never made contact there, but it still left the the extremely difficulty of laminating over the extreme tips of the pointed spines. Indeed, this is yet another example of the laminate not taking evenly there, a tiny area near the back top point and a laminate line running from the tip on the top left front corner. Very hard to see without tilting the cover and I am being over zealous in describing a spine design from the 60's that would be discontinued very soon. 6.) For the scenario outlined directly above, approximately 90% of all first issue UK "Imagine" covers have ultra slim, but without the tapered into pointed spine endings. Plus with the standard square or flat non rounded centres, it made them much more effective for the printed titles and catalogue number. 7.) Finally, the actual internal folded connecting top cardboard strip was ridiculously thin, made to try to compensate for the pointed endings, but it made no difference and laminating was still very difficult when it covered the front and back of covers. If you look inside the top cover, the very first issue covers can be identified from that alone, they usually became unstuck due to the small size with average use of the record. THERE IS LITERALLY NO WEAR OR AGEING ANYWHERE ON THIS REALLY BEAUTIFUL, AGE DEFYING, STUNNING COVER. ANYTHING ON HERE, SUCH AS A FEW TINY LAMINATE EDGE LINES, WAS PRECISELY HOW IT WAS MADE IN 1971 OR FACTORY HANDLING. I HAVE INCLUDED THE LAMINATION'S APPLICATION DIFFICULTIES, FACTORY FINISHES ARE NOT PART OF GRADING, USE AND STORAGE ALONE COME INTO THAT EQUATION, A RARE UNPLAYED RECORD LIKE LIKE THIS DEMANDS COMMON SENSE TAKES THE PRIORITY. I ALWAYS INCLUDE THE EFFECT OF NATURALLY JUST STANDING FOR 45 YEARS WITH A HEAVYWEIGHT RECORD AND A HUGE FOLDED BULKY POSTER INSIDE, WHICH FOR FIRST ISSUES, MEANT AT LEAST THREE TIMES AS THICK PAPER. HOW CAN I BE THAT POSITIVE? My first bought, day of issue "Imagine" has this design and a few tiny laminate edge lines, I still have the album and kept it in a plastic sleeve and never allowed the sloping shape to be squashed flat, the horrific creases that caused will be seen on ebay. I accept that is not enough and I deal in solid facts not speculation, no design ever made could hold a heavy circular circular object and a huge poster and not end up with some degree of an impression from within, that particularly affected fully laminated covers. That impression was absolutely minimised though by the sloping shape of the cover, creating a wider, more spacious centre as well, easily accommodating the first pressing only heavy record and massively thick poster. The record has hardly left an impression, to even see it will require tilting the cover acutely into a light source. PERFECTLY STORED, LOOKING LIKE NEW, THE STRICTEST GRADING IS NEAR MINT CONDITION. FIRST ISSUE ONLY, MATT AND TEXTURED OUTSIDE AND INSIDE, THICK PAPER "Imagine" POSTER. No other following poster was made on such thick, textured paper like this, there was a sheen finish applied to the next made and they had a smooth non textured finish. Once again I believe 'Garrod' made these stunning, deluxe quality posters. MEASURING 33" x 22", THE EXTRA ABSORBENT PAPER DOES NOT HAVE ANY AGING, SO I MUST INSIST ON SAYING THIS AS CLOSE TO BEING THE ORIGINAL PURE WHITE 46 YEARS ALLOWS. PLUS 100% AUTHENTIC AND NOT AS COMMONLY FOUND , A MUCH LATER POSTER SWAPPED FOR THE ORIGINAL. POSITIVELY UNUSED, WITH ONLY THE ORIGINAL PRINTER'S FOLDS AND RELATED LIGHT RIPPLES. IN 'NEVER LEFT COVER' MINT- CONDITION. FIRST ISSUE "John Lennon with pig mocks the "Ram" cover" THICK POSTCARD, WITH PHOTOGRAPHIC SHARPNESS PRINTING. IN A DIFFERENT CLASS COMPARED TO ALL THE RE-ISSUE CARDS, IN UNAGED MINT CONDITION. STRICTLY FIRST ISSUE ONLY, LYRICS AND CREDITS INNER SLEEVE, PURE WHITE, UNUSED, UNAGED, UNSPLIT AND ONLY A GENTLE RECORD IMPRESSION, HOW COULD THERE NOT BE ONE IN THE SOFT PAPER? THESE FIRST ISSUES WERE PRINTED ON A MATT TOP SURFACE, VIRTUALLY WITHOUT ANY AGEING WORTHY OF DISCUSSION, NO CREASES, TEARS OR FOLDS. UNHANDLED, THE TOP OPENING HAS SHARP, CRISP EDGES, IN MINT- CONDITION. The above is describing the vast majority of first issue inner sleeves, only one variation exists and they are extremely rare and seldom seen. A die-cut centre to see the labels through on both sides, I must stress only a few were made with that design. I am delighted to offer an undamaged, unused and virtually unaged standard inner sleeve, the previous "Imagine" I mentioned selling last year, just happened to have the die-cut centre variant and that reminded to include it today. THE RECORD HAS IMMACULATE LABELS, BEING SOFLY TEXTURED, I CAN POSITIVELY SAY THERE IS NOT A SINGLE TRACE OF EVER BEING ON A SPINDLE OR A TURNTABLE. THE ULTRA GLOSSY VINYL IS TOTALLY UNMARKED AND UNHANDLED ,IN UNPLAYED, MINT CONDITION.

SIDE 1 "Imagine" "Crippled Inside" "Jealous Guy" "It's So Hard" "I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama,I Don't Wanna Die" SIDE 2 "Gimme Some Truth" "Oh My Love" (Lennon / Ono) "How Do You Sleep?" "How?" "Oh Yoko!" John Lennon - vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, piano, harmonica & whistling George Harrison - electric guitar, slide guitar & dobro guitar Nicky Hopkins - piano Klaus Voormann - bass Alan White - drums,Tibetan cymbals & vibraphone John Barham - harmonium, keyboards & vibraphone Steve Brendell - upright bass & maracas King Curtis - saxophone Andy Davis - acoustic guitar Tom Evans- acoustic guitar John Tout - acoustic guitar Ted Turner - acoustic guitar Rod Linton - acoustic guitar Joey Molland - acoustic guitar Jim Gordon - drums Jim Keltner - drums Michael Pinder - tambourine Phil Spector - backing vocals The Flux Fiddlers - strings All Songs Written By John Lennon, Except "Oh My Love", Co-Written With Yoko. Recorded 23rd June 1971 – 5th July 1971, At John's Ascot Sound Studios Produced By John Lennon, Yoko Ono & Phil Spector.

I strongly disapprove of ridiculous terms like, 'museum', 'archive', 'investment opportunity' etc. being applied to our musical heritage but for such a stunning genuine very first pressing of "Imagine," I will give my all to providing essential details of the vinyl pressing and all connected printed items. How could those soul searching lyrics be at the top of the page and have any connection to such inappropriate terms that are more suited to antique furniture? For all the magnificence of Lennon's input to the Beatles recording's, the "Imagine" album artwork, LP title and the song itself placed as the opening track, were all directly inspired by all that had proceded this album in the 1960's, including his superb first solo LP, "Plastic Ono Band." For a philosophical view of the world, John had also been inspired by Yoko, but the haunting melody and the actual lyrics are the genius of Lennon the songwriter and his actual vocal performance was so intensive, the out-takes demonstrated how he had to compose himself and find the exact feel to produce the vocal you hear on the record. He had written the greatest song and lyrics of all time, for all his anti-war, Peace efforts, "Imagine" said it all, but for the album itself, John felt he had to use alternate production techniques found on his "Plastic Ono Band" first solo album, in order to express those sentiments. John Lennon was also into performing very heavy rock and "I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama,I Don't Wanna Die" is still an underrated masterpiece of a track, 'Lennon the dreamer' and the writer of beautiful love songs like, "How", "Oh My Love" and "Jealous Guy", also represent the musical genius and 'The Legend.' By the album opening with "Imagine", it was a statement of intent and and so was the choice of "Gimme Some Truth" for Side 2, it might not be generally known that was originally written for and performed by the Beatles in 1969 in it's embryonic stages. Then you had that astonishing character attack on Paul McCartney with George Harrison playing a really mean slide blues lead guitar on "How Do You Sleep?", one of the out-takes went so far, not even Lennon would have issued it! The actual song and production on "How Do You Sleep?" had a sound that became unique to all the tracks, so unique, he could not replicate it again and he never tried to either, well, only once and he deliberately recordeda track to directly mirror another personal onslaught in song and lyrics. That time it was Allen Klein who raised Lennon's anger in 1974, I have recently mentioned "Steel And Glass" in a description of a superb first pressing, "Walls And Bridges." He named it as a 'Son of "How Do You Sleep?" in interviews, but that was a one-off and purpose made use of the "Imagine" album's sound. That very special 'sound' can only be named as 'Imagine.' Such was the biting intensity immediately after the Beatles broke up, John and Paul had a few tense unproductive meetings, then they virtually stepped straight into a courtroom as enemies on the opposite sides, perhaps that is better expressed as former best friends/ brothers falling out after spending so long living under intensive pressures. Just returning to that first solo recording and the presentation of the songs, they had a different but very special sound exclusive to the the previous "Plastic Ono Band." Lennon was howling out his pain on that first solo album, a wonderful raw and earthy sound, not to everyone's taste and he felt the Peace message was too important to end up buried on an album the majority of fans ignored. For "Imagine," he used everything he had learnt in nine years experience of recording studios, he now utilised an amazing ability to craft some of the world's most stunning records, which "Imagine" certainly is. I started writing this with the firm conviction it would be incorrect to play such an ultimate true mint record after being kept so perfectly stored and unplayed for fourty six years now. A huge seller, but with this unique cover and poster etc. I tend to think in terms of these being more like a 'limited edition' for my own copy! It would be purely indulgence to play it even once, this is a loved album and it is well documented how perfectly EMI mastered and pressed "Imagine." It had to be with Lennon still living in England and 'breathing down EMI's necks' and personally checking these first pressings! In fact even when he was living in New York and preparing "Shaved Fish" in 1975, John refused to accept EMI's dubs of his singles and would only allow Abbey Road's master tapes to be used for the compilation. Today sellers on ebay reap the rewards of the mistakenly used mix of "Tomorrow Never Knows" on the UK "Revolver" album. I regularly see most now tying themselves in knots trying to understand the simple spelling anomalies of "Doctor Robert," if not for John Lennon's scrutiny of all his just released records, none of the changes would have been noticed or the amendments made, if not for his refusal to allow anything unless it was how he intended it to sound and even spelled or abbreviated. = I would dearly love to describe every track, I'm bursting with info and have complete studio out-takes, according to a knowledgeable source, they were given to a collector by John Lennon as a thank you for giving him several vinyl bootlegs with Beatles material on them. John also collected boots and loved the idea of underground music, he apparently said, "Make sure these are circulated, there's some great stuff on the tapes!" Without playing the record I had no idea what to write here after all the pressing info and credits, I wanted to exhaust all of them in my main headings, with the extensive text and the above twelve pictures, I would have no further details to give here and for once, I toyed with the idea of just writing nothing else and simply end the description with, "THE RECORD IS IN UNPLAYED MINT CONDITION." If ever there was one album I ever wanted to write the very basics only about, but the paradox of only wanting to sell a first pressing in true Mint condition, cannot be resolved. In our 16 years trading on ebay, now my fifth listing of a Mint, unplayed "Imagine" and I am rather proud to present this revered album in the ultimate condition as the very first pressing. {Roy}

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