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SECURE, TOP LP Packing and Materials - 40 years experience.
A number of select Rare, Collectible Vintage 1980s, NEW WAVE, PUNK, HARD CORE, POST-PUNK and related VINYL LPs being listed now ...including several PROMOS, STERLING Masters and IMPORTS.

from 50+ years collection estate of decades-long Radio DJ, Record Store associate and dedicated Vinyl Collector

Some of these are Extremely Scarce and Highly Sought!
I will continue listing more, as time allows, now and through the coming weeks
So Save this listing/eBay ID and be sure to check back.
Diligent collectors will be rewarded!
This listing is for:
FREDDIE MERCURY
MR. BAD GUY

COLUMBIA Records FC 40071
Original 1985 issue Stereo LP
PROMO • 1st PRESSING w/HYPE STICKER and Original Lyrics/Photo INNER SLEEVE George Marino STERLING Master
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VINYL is NEAR MINT / NEAR MINT-
Full Gloss, Super-clean Vinyl is Full NEAR MINT on SIDE ONE, with no marks, viewed under hard bright light. SIDE TWO is NEAR MINT- with one tiny, inaudible hairline, barely visible. Labels are pristine both sides.
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COVER is EX+
Crisp, spanking clean and snapping bright with no wear, writing or soil. faint edge crease at spine only and 1 bumped (still sharp) l.r. corner tip. All corners sharp, all edges straight. Seams and spine completely intact with no splits. Spine titles 100% legible.

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

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

RARE 1st Press PROMO with HYPE STICKER on COVER
One of the nice things about the original issue PROMO is that the hype sticker is on the actual front cover of the LP. The commercial copies had the sticker (when used) on the outer shrink wrap ...and was gone as soon as the shrink was removed to open the LP.

Freddie Mercury's first solo album
...recorded in Germany and took almost two years to complete on and off due to other commitments with Queen. Originally the album was to be titled "Made In Heaven" but was changed before release to Mr. Bad Guy. (the 15th and last album by Queen ended up with the title 'Made In Heaven’).

©, ℗ 1985 CBS Inc.
Manufactured by Columbia Records
Mastered by George Marino at STERLING SOUND
includes the Original Inner Sleeve, with printed lyrics one side, and Full photo of Freddie on the other side. (see LAST PHOTO)
…INNER SLEEVE in superb condition with no creases or splits.
*Vinyl kept in an additional anti-static inner sleeve to protect both the Vinyl and the original inner.

"STERLING" stamped in the Deadwax both sides.
Gold PROMO stamp on back cover, u.r. corner.

FIRST PRESSING MATRIX NUMBERS -Special PROMO ISSUE "P" Matrices (etched, except for STERLING: stamped)
SIDE ONE: P - AP  AL-40071 - 1T +      STERLING
SIDE TWO: P  AP   BL-40071 - 1B       STERLING
TRACK LISTING SIDE ONE
A1        Let's Turn It On    3:39
A2        Made In Heaven    4:02
A3        I Was Born To Love You    3:36
A4        Foolin' Around    3:26
A5        Your Kind Of Lover    3:31
B1        Mr. Bad Guy    4:10
SIDE TWO       
B2        Man Made Paradise    4:07  
B3        There Must Be More To Life Than This    2:56
B4        Living On My Own    3:21
B5        My Love Is Dangerous    3:38
B6        Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow    3:44

SUPERB SOUND on this FIRST Press STERLING Master PROMO!
Great for any Collector or Fan of QUEEN and Freddie Mercury.

Vinyl inside anti-static lined inner sleeve
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve

Please see my other listings for more Rare Vintage Collectible
1980s, NEW WAVE, PUNK HARDCORE, POST-PUNK
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! _______________________________________________________________________
You deserve and will receive FAST SHIPPING and CAREFUL, SECURE PACKING.

My LP packing is considered to be among the very best on eBay! All records packed (with vinyl inside inner sleeve, behind cover for open LPs) with bubble-wrap around all sides - sandwiched between stiff corrugated flats - and shipped in strong LP mailer boxes, for best protection in the mail.
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