Sold Date: March 10, 2024
Start Date: February 29, 2024
Final Price: £225.00 (GBP)
Bid Count: 32
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ORIGINAL ULTRA RARE FIRST PRESS CLEAR BLUE SKY UK VERTIGO  70` VERTIGO 6360 013
DISCARDED TITLE "PLAY IT LOUD" BLOTTED OUT WITH RED INK.(ON THE SPINE) ORIGINAL UK VERTIGO FIRST PRESS GATEFOLD.1970 ORIGINAL RECORD FIRST PRESS VERTIGO UK.1970 ORIGINAL CLEAN VERTIGO LEBELS. ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVE. BEAUTIFUL ANALOG SOUND ON UK VERTIGO VINYL AND NOT INFERIOR DIGITAL COMPRESSED SOUND.

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST UK VERTIGO STEREO PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING. ULTRA RARE .

:  PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

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REVIEW FROM PROGARCHIVES:

Clear Blue Sky biography
Originally a trio of friends from school, John Simms (guitar), Mark Sheather (bass), and Ken White (drums) grew up in the Acton area of London and started as a college circuit blues-rock band called JUG BLUES (later MATUSE and then X). Impressing manager Ashley Kozak, the band were given a deal with Vertigo, changed their name to CLEAR BLUE SKY and recorded a self-titled record under the production of Patrick Campbell-Lyons. Still only eighteen, the three musicians mixed hard blues with progressive and psychedelic rock in an unusually mature way, and the LP was released in January 1971 sporting one of Roger Dean's earliest album covers. The group was occasionally compared to CREAM, LED ZEPPELIN and early JETHRO TULL, though the music had a firm prog sensibility unlike CREAM or ZEPPELIN and sometimes may even remind of RUSH.

CLEAR BLUE SKY's 1971 debut (reissued on Repertoire,1991) is considered their most important and the LP is a collector's item. The second record, "Destiny" [Saturn, 1990], released twenty years after the first (and then again in 1999 on Aftermath in CD format), is old material but shows an improvement in form and approach from the first session. 1996 saw the part-concept album "Cosmic Crusader" and later another theme record "Mirror of the Stars". "Out of the Blue", a collection of live and unreleased material, came out in 2001.

Considering their partially forgotten status, CLEAR BLUE SKY is a surprisingly tight and accomplished band that probably deserve more attention than they got the first time around. 


-- Atavachron (David) ?

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WE WILL ALWAYS PREFER TO GRADE OUR RECORDS FAIRLY AND PROFESSIONALLY.

CONDITION:

VINYL:

VINYL IS SHINY AND BEAUTIFUL. SOME VERY, VERY ,VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL ABRASIONS-MOSTLY SLEEVE SCUFFS -ARE (BARELY)VISIBLE ,BUT ARE PROBABLY INAUDIBLE, AND DO NOT AFFECT VISUAL INTEGRITY OR BEAUTY OF THE VINYL.

VI GRADE VINYL :(WEAK )NEAR MINT

SLEEVE:

SOME STICKER WAS HERE. MISSING THE SURFACE PART OF THE COVER ON BOTH SIDES IN THE MIDDLE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FRONT COVER(SEE PICTURE). MAYBE IT WAS SEALED WITH THE STICKER ON.

SOME VERY SMALL DRILL HOLES UPP ON THE RIGHT CORNER AND DOWN ON THE LEFT CORNER.

SOME WEAR ON THE CORNER UPP IN THE MIDDLE AND SMALL CUT OUT.COUPLE OF CM. 

COVER COLOR CHANGE DUE TO AGE .NOTHING SIGNIFICANT. 

BEAUTIFUL INTACT SPINE.

SOME YELLOWING OF THE INNER SLEEVE DUE TO AGESS. NOTHING SIGNIFICANT.

OTHERWISE GOOD FEELING AND OK SLEEVE.

VI GRADE SLEEVE VG(VERY GOOD) 

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