Jimi Hendrix – Isle of Wight 1975 Japan LP with obi and alternate cover

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Free U.S. shipping!  A Japanese copy of Isle of Wight by Jimi Hendrix, including the original obi and a different cover from the U.S. release.

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Offered for sale is a Japanese copy of Isle of Wight by Jimi Hendrix, including the original obi and a different cover from the U.S. release.

About this copy: The copy offered for sale is a 1975 Japanese pressing on the Polydor label of an album that was originally released in 1972.

This copy is identical to the 1973 pressing, but includes an insert that lists a couple of albums that were released in 1975, so it’s clearly a 1975 issue.

The cover is M- with trace corner wear.  The obi is M-.  The two inserts are M-.

The disc is M- with a single spindle mark on one label, and no marks at all on the vinyl.  Clean disc!

A nearly perfect copy of a scarce Jimi Hendrix LP.

Background: Isle of Wight was the first live album released after Jimi’s death.  The LP reached #17 on the UK charts, but was not originally released in the United States.

Allmusic.com gave Isle of Wight this review:

Jimi Hendrix’s August 8, 1970 set at the Isle of Wight festival in England resulted in two types of posthumous LPs in the 1970s: illegal bootlegs from various underground labels, and legal releases from Polydor. One of the legal releases that Polydor put out in England was Isle of Wight, a single LP that is consistently exciting but doesn’t tell the whole story. Hendrix’s performances of “Foxy Lady,” “Lover Man,” “Midnight Lightning,” “All Along the Watchtower,” “In from the Storm” and “Freedom” are excellent and made Isle of Wight well worth the price of admission when it first came out in 1971.

For reasons unknown, the original pressings of several Jimi Hendrix albums had covers that were markedly different from their UK and U.S. counterparts.  While Axis: Bold as Love is probably the best known of these, Electric Ladyland, Smash Hits, and Isle of Wight also had covers that were unique to Japan.

In the case of Isle of Wight, it’s also a gatefold cover.

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Country of origin: Japan
Size: 12″
Record Label: Polydor
Catalog Number:
MP 2217
Year of Release: 1975
Format: Stereo
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Weight 14 oz
Dimensions 12.4 × 12.4 × 0.25 in