Vinyl: ROLLING STONES - BILL WYMAN'S Personal BLACK AND BLUE LP Test Pressing

A rare test pressing of the Rolling Stones 1976 album Black and Blue from the collection of longtime Stones' bassist Bill Wyman, with his handwritten notations and track listing on the front cover.

Bill Wyman is legendary both as a musician and as a collector of Rolling Stones memorabilia. This test pressing was sold by him at the Bill Wyman and his Rolling Stones Archive sale at Julien's Auctions (if you haven't already seen the Wyman documentary The Quiet One, we enthusiastically recommend it.)

The Presswell test pressing of the Rolling Stones Records release is in Near Mint- condition. On the original generic white cover Wyman has handwritten the catalog number, album title, date, and track titles, coincidentally in black and blue ink.

With the original auction house descriptive card, hang tag, and Recordmecca's written lifetime guarantee of authenticity, signed by Recordmecca's Jeff Gold, who has consulted for Bill Wyman.

A rare opportunity to obtain a Rolling Stones test pressing owned by a Rolling Stone!

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We have been buying and selling music collectibles for 45 years.

Recordmecca's clients include the Smithsonian Institution, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Experience Music Project, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Recordmecca's Jeff Gold was named by Rolling Stone as one of 5 Top Collectors of High-End Music Memorabilia. He authenticated previously unknown Bob Dylan manuscripts for PBS's History Detectives, appeared as a featured appraiser on VH1's Rock Collectors, and has been profiled as a top dealer and collector in the books Vinyl Junkies and Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to it's Own Past.

Gold is author of the acclaimed books Total Chaos: The Story of The Stooges/As Told By Iggy Pop; and 101 Essential Rock Records: The Golden Age of Vinyl a survey of seminal rock albums, featuring contributions from David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Johnny Marr and Graham Nash.

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