Sold Date: December 13, 2020
Start Date: December 6, 2020
Final Price: £109.00 (GBP)
Bid Count: 39
Seller Feedback: 884
Buyer Feedback: 87

URIAH HEEP -

SALISBURY

VERTIGO  6360 028

1st UK 1971 

machined matrices 1Y*1 2Y*1

"URIAH HEEP - SALISBURY" RAREST EVER TO FIND, LARGE VERTIGO SWIRL! IT IS BELIEVED THAT JUST A COUPLE OF THOUSAND WERE PRESSED ON THIS LABEL! THE ORIGINAL SWIRL INNER SLEEVE IS ALSO STILL THERE WITHOUT ANY DAMAGE.

 Salisbury is a remarkable album with very bright, touching moments. I consider Uriah Heep (next to Black Widow) as far ahead of British hard rock bands of the 70's. This album makes a rough combination between interludes of progressive wandering (epic keyboards arrangements) and comfortable, conventional heavy rock based passages. "Time to live" is an evident, catching heavy rock tune with an effective, inflexible guitar rhythm section accompanied by the powerful, emotional and screaming David Byron's vocals. "Lady wore black" is one of my all time favourite Uriah Heep composition, really rock with a folk touch and impressive vocals parts. Everything is accomplished with a tremendous energy and a great sense of melody. "The Park" is a ravishing ballad with outstanding, very emotional, sad vocals. A tune that can really give you shivers. This band beats all the 70's and 90's challengers in the progressive hard rock genre, stylistically, emotionally and technically. I highly recommend a listen on this convincing album. (Taken from : "Progarchives (Philipe)" )

Vinyl: VG+ . Stunning deep glossy and heavy vinyl. This has certainly not been overplayed. A beautiful glossy vinyl with just a few wispy hairlines and one longer hairline on side B which is barely audible on replay with just two or three low level pops. Under a strong light retraction paper traces can be seen. These are barely visible in normal light. I subjected the record to a detailed listen on my high end system and it sounded great. Lovely channel separation without any distortion and very little crackle. A little static mainly on the beginning of each side which is just a normal feature really on most LP's from the era. I would say that this LP is above average condition and will sit nicely in a quality collection.

Gatefold sleeve: VG+.  Without doubt one of the harder gatefolds to still find intact!! A great matt sleeve with just only the very light storage wear. In most cases the black coloured fields have worn badly. NOT THIS ONE!! It still looks incredible. Only some storage wear on the edges top and bottom. The spine is still 100% legible with some light storage wear.  One light crease near the top centre, no writing or foxing anywhere. The inside gate is fantastic. NO price stickers or writing. NO tears, NO splits.  This has to be seen in the flesh to be properly appreciated. The pictures give you some impression of the quality at hand in this auction.

The original swirl inner sleeve is in EX condition with the polythene still firmly attached. NO split NO tears.

This is a unique investment opportunity!!! The next prog album to go completely through the roof. Finding this album in any condition at all is nearly impossible so late in the day. Get this while you still can. This value of the album is only going to go one way ... up and up ... until it will be totally unavailable at all for a reasonable price.

Important : International postage will be registered and insured if over GBP 30.00.  In the UK, if over £100.00 this will be sent special delivery. Please wait for an amended invoice before paying. Postage will be according to Royal Mail rates. Postage is NOT a money spinning exercise for me.

Though there are rarely ever any problems with my items, I always try my very best to describe everything exactly!  PLEASE REMEMBER to contact me FIRST,  if you have any problems at all, before you leave feedback and star ratings, so I get a chance to turn any negative experience into a positive one!  I can always happily sort anything out for you, if you let me know you have a problem!  This way no one has to leave Negative/Neutral feedback - and we both walk away happy! Similarly with the amount of stars, anything less than a full 5 * rating is effectively detrimental to a seller's rating as lower ratings will incur higher Final Value Fees  and lower priority in the bidlists eventually making it unattractive to list items on Ebay at all. I know of at least one major previous Ebay seller who has decided not to list via Ebay again. Please do NOT bid if you cannot give me at least 1 chance to sort everything out to your FULL satisfaction in the unlikely event of a problem.  Thanks again!!

This an excellent investment opportunity!!! Any questions please ask me and I will try to answer soon.

This an excellent investment opportunity!!! Any questions please ask me and I will try to answer soon.

Though there are rarely ever any problems with my items, I always try my very best to describe everything exactly!  PLEASE REMEMBER to contact me FIRST,  if you have any problems at all, before you leave feedback and star ratings, so I get a chance to turn any negative experience into a positive one!  I can always happily sort anything out for you, if you let me know you have a problem!  This way no one has to leave Negative/Neutral feedback - and we both walk away happy! Similarly with the amount of stars, anything less than a full 5 * rating is effectively detrimental to a seller's rating as lower ratings will incur higher Final Value Fees  and lower priority in the bidlists eventually making it unattractive to list items on Ebay at all. I know of at least one major previous Ebay seller who has decided not to list via Ebay again. Please do NOT bid if you cannot give me at least 1 chance to sort everything out to your FULL satisfaction in the unlikely event of a problem.  Thanks again!!

This an excellent investment opportunity!!! Any questions please ask me and I will try to answer soon.