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Stuart Sutcliffe & John Lennon's Elvis Presley LP

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Stuart Sutcliffe & John Lennon's Elvis Presley LP
A disc of historic significance, for sure, is this original first U.K. pressing of “Elvis Presley” on RCA Records. It’s anyone’s guess as to how many hundred’s of repeated plays this record received, but judging by the rough condition, Presley’s influence upon the sixteen-year old Stuart Sutcliffe is obvious; an impact that extended to his friend and future band mate, John Lennon. On the reverse of the album jacket, Sutcliffe has boldly printed his first name in black marker, and below ‘Presley’ has written his name in blue ink (somewhat obscured and faded). The disc and cover are quite distressed. Pauline Sutcliffe related to us the great story of how she came into possession of her brother’s album in the mid-1990’s: “...when I was still working as a consultant family therapist, journalist Maureen Cleeve contacted me to consult on an article she was writing...and after the interview she suddenly produced Stuart’s album, then said “John Lennon lent it to me when I interviewed him for an article I wrote that appeared in the London Evening Standard on March 4, 1966, which resulted in the ‘more popular than Jesus Christ’ worldwide controversy...John said he borrowed it from Stu...I always wanted to return it...I guess it’s never too late.” A well-traveled album, indeed!