JOHN LENNON: Imagine + INNER SLEEVE & PHOTO

Sold Date: May 10, 2023
Start Date: April 30, 2023
Final Price: £10.00 (GBP)
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JOHN LENNON: Imagine (Apple, PAS 10004, 1971, LP)
Nice early copy with inner sleeve and photo lampooning Paul McCartney's Ram LP sleeve. The sleeve has the interior glued flipback coming from rear of sleeve and affixed to the inside front as per early copies.
I know one of the guitarists on 'Gimme Some Truth' and 'Oh Yoko!' 'Tis true. He's only credited as "Andy" on the inner sleeve, but this is Andy Davis, then with Stackridge. The call went out to the John Sherry Organisation (quite why to them is a mystery lost in the mists of time) to see if there were any acoustic guitarists around that could go and add a Badfinger style big guitar sound at the Imagine sessions. Those who got the message were Andy, Ted Turner (Wishbone Ash), Rod Lynton, and John Tout (Renaissance - and, yes, I know he's was their pianist, but he plays acoustic guitar here). John Sherry was agent for all these musician's current bands at this point.
See photographs for sleeve, inner sleeve and photo conditions. All nice enough. Record plays at EX. A nice copy altogether.
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