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A number of select Rare, Collectible Vintage PUNK, HARD CORE, POST-PUNK, NEW WAVE and related VINYL LPs being listed now ...including several PROMOS, STERLING Masters and IMPORTS.

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This listing is for:
U2
WAR
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ISLAND Records 90067-1
Original 1983 issue Stereo LP
TRUE 1st PRESS PURPLE Labels
Gatefold Cover

VINYL is NEAR MINT
Full Gloss Vinyl looks and plays Like New. Labels are super clean both sides with no spindle trails.
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COVER is NEAR MINT-
Snapping bright, extremely clean Gatefold cover is very close to full NM, with only a couple of barely bumped (still sharp) corner-tips. No wear, creases, writing or soil. Inside Gatefold is pristine. All edges straight, all corners sharp. Seams and spine 100% intact with no wear or splits.

*Please excuse any 'grainy' look to pictures (...from low-light photos).

STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

Rare TRUE 1st Press with earliest PURPLE Labels. GATEFOLD Cover.

One of U2's greatest LPs - and the one that finally won them international acclaim and stardom.
with the hits Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Year's Day and Two Hearts Beat as One.

“First U.S. pressing, with purple labels. Issued in gatefold jacket with lyrics inside.”
*NOTE: ISLAND's Purple label was introduced in 1982; by mid-1983 it was phased out. VERY FEW copies of this 1983 LP got the original Purple label - only the very first pressings (1st Allied and Specialty plant pressings).

In mid-1983 Island brought out a fairly hideous ‘bluish’ (blue/yellow) label that all later 1983 presses of U2 WAR are found on.
The next year (1984) Island phased out that label and introduced a BLACK label with BLUE RIM border. Any record found (most early pressings) with those labels are repress/reissue. Buyers beware: many copies on the later labels are being falsely sold here on eBay as first pressings!
also: by some point in 1984, ISLAND began releasing the album in a standard Non-Gatefold cover.

...all the described FIRST PRESS indicators here can be verified at DISCOGS. For the correct LABEL year and sequence go to VINYLBEAT, even Discogs gets confused on that as Island changed their labels 3 times in 3 years during that period.
FULL 1982-1984 USA ISLAND Label sequence: 1982: PURPLE / mid 1983: 'BLUISH' (Blue/Yellow)  / 1984 BLACK (with blue rim border)
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Catalog # 90067-1 on labels, rear cover.
Catalog # 7 90067-1 on spine.

℗ & © 1983 Island Records Ltd.
Recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin
Mastered at Sheffield Lab Matrix Inc.
Pressed by Allied Records Co.
Produced by Steve Lillywhite.

TRACK LISTING SIDE ONE
Sunday Bloody Sunday    4:38
Seconds    3:09
New Year's Day    5:38
Like A Song…    4:48
Drowning Man    4:12
SIDE TWO
The Refugee    3:40
Two Hearts Beat As One    4:00
Red Light    3:46
Surrender    5:34
"40"    2:36
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TRUE FIRST PRESSING in ARCHIVE CONDITION
Very hard to find on this original label, especially so clean.
Vinyl inside anti-static lined inner sleeve
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve

Please see my other listings for more First Press U2
and other Rare Vintage Collectible NEW WAVE, PUNK, POST-PUNK, 1980s ROCK
and related LPs.
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From an utterly vast and deep record collection, from my life-long best friend
who was a DJ at the Radio Station I co-founded in the 1970's - and who worked for me at my California record store in the '70s and '80s. . Sadly he has now left this mortal coil, bequeathing me his deep Vinyl Mine.
We had very similar tastes - so numerous prime duplicates are being listed.
Many PROMOS, IMPORTS and 1st PRESSINGS are included
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Several thousand records (mostly LP's, but also hundreds of 45's), several hundred collectible and Rare, Out of Print CDs and Box Sets, plus posters and other memorabilia will all eventually be listed.

Truly a great (and enormous) collection! _______________________________________________________________________
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