The much sought after ORIGINAL pressing of The Velvet Undeground & Nico's classic album THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO with the UNPEELED BANANA AND EMERSON TORSO!!!
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COUNTRY: US
YEAR: 1967
LABEL: Verve
CATALOGUE NUMBER:
V6-5008
GRADING
SLEEVE: EX
An absolute stunner. Unpeeled banana and Emerson Torso showing it to be the very first pressing! These sleeves usually turn up yellowed and torn up but this sleeve is still very white overall with some spots of discolouration, "Bob" in VERY small writing at the top right of the sleeve, and minimal wear. The banana has a split across the stem but nothing is missing!
LABELS: NM
Labels are immaculate no writing, damage etc.
RECORD: EX+
Stunningly clean vinyl. Both sides are near markless. Grades EX+ to NM as there are a couple faint hairlines on both sides.
Plays Excellent. No skips, pops or jumps. The music rings out beautifully and clear! I don't think I've heard of a single one of these originals that didn't play with at least some light surface noise regardless of how clean they are but this definitely has the least out of all the ones I've heard.
Overall a remarkable piece of musical history and one of the few to survive with the Banana still present and the vinyl still in amazing condition! Whoever goes on to own this will be very happy!