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ELTON JOHN HONKY CHATEAU Japanese COLLECTORS 1ST EDITION EVER IN A TREMENDOUSLY RARE LONG OUT OF PRINT REPLICA TO THE GATEFOLD JACKET ORIGINAL LP RELEASE IN A OBI SEALED CD RARE LIMITED EDITION - OUR LAST COPY FOREVER JUST TRY TO FIND THIS TITLE ANYWHERE STILL SEALED. DON'T MISS OUT . ALSO WE'VE SHOWN IN A SECOND PICTURE IS THE DETAIL OF WHAT THE GATEFOLD JACKET WITH EXACT INSERT JACKET AND THE OTHER MATERIALS THAT COME ONLY WITH THIS OUT OF PRINT THIS JAPAN REPLICA CD. Japanese OBI MINI REPLICA WHAT IS A JAPAN "MINI/REPLICA-LP-SLEEVE" CD? Have you ever lamented the loss of one of the 20th Century's great art forms, the 12" vinyl LP jacket? Then "mini-LP-sleeve" CD's may be for you. Mini-sleeve CDs are manufactured in Japan under license. The disc is packaged inside a 135MM X 135MM cardboard precision-miniature replica of the original classic vinyl-LP album. Also, anything contained in the original LP, such as gatefolds, booklets, lyric sheets, posters, printed LP sleeves, stickers, embosses, special LP cover paper/inks/textures and/or die cuts, are precisely replicated and included. An English-language lyric sheet is always included, even if the original LP did not have printed lyrics. Then, there's the sonic quality: Mini-sleeves have dedicated remastering (20-Bit, 24-Bit, DSD, K2/K2HD, and/or HDCD), and can often be superior to the audio on the same title anywhere else in the world. There also may be bonus tracks unavailable elsewhere. Each Japan mini-sleeve has an "obi" ("oh-bee"), a removable Japan-language promotional strip. The obi lists the Japan street date of that particular release, the catalog number, the mastering info, and often the original album's release date. Bonus tracks are only listed on the obi, maintaining the integrity of the original LP artwork. The obi's are collectable, and should not be discarded. All mini-sleeve releases are tremendously limited editions mainly pressed on future orders only and once released immediately out of print. This fact along with other latter features we've mentioned make these titles rare collectibles that sell in the collectors markets for $100's of dollars apiece. Special VERY RARE LIMITED EDITION ONLY PRODUCED ON FUTURES FOR THIS ONE TIME PRESSING -- were only available in Japan. E-BAY STORE . FOR YOUR ADDITIONAL OBI RARE BOX SET SELECTIONS - INDIVIDUAL TITLE INFORMATION OR INDIVIDUAL PURCHASE JUST HIT THIS STORES TAB >. & TYPE IN ELTON JOHN INTO THE SEARCH FIELD WITHIN OUR STORES SECTION AS YOUR PERSONAL CODE AND ALL INDIVIDUAL TITLES + INFORMATION WILL APPEAR COLLECTORS ITEMS are ONE OF A KIND and OUT OF PRINT, PRODUCTS ARE IRREPLACEABLE - no exchange or return for opened product. Elton John, who was voted by his peers recently as the 17th Best Rock n Roll Artist of All-Time, established his reputation with this 1973 Mercury Recording . This contains the classic Elton John tunes - Rocket Man - Honky Cat - Mona Lisas And Mat Hatters - Hercules and much more. Track Listings 1. Honky Cat 2. Mellow 3. I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself 4. Susie (Dramas) 5. Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time) 6. Salvation 7. Slave 8. Amy 9. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters 10. Hercules 11. Slave [Alternate Take][*] In the early spring of newly post-war Britain, Reginald Kenneth Dwight (legally changed to Elton John at the age of 20) was born in his grandparents' government-assisted house. It was the wettest, coldest March on record and the gloom of the long harsh English winter had not yet passed off. These are the inauspicious beginnings for the man who was destined to become one of the most successful and flamboyant musical artists of the modern age. It was his mother who discovered that he was a piano prodigy when she heard him picking out, by ear, "The Skater's Waltz" by Winifred Atwell. John was four years old. It was this amazing talent that led John to win a junior scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 11. This meant that, in addition to his regular school, he would be taking classes on Saturdays, in London, at the Academy. It was his mother and step-father, affectionately nicknamed "Derf" by John, who would help him break into music by helping him become a pianist and singer in the local pub at weekends. At the age of 17, John and his friends formed an English R&B group called Bluesology and although the band supported many big name acts on tour (most notably; Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles and The Isley Brothers) Bluesology wasn't John's doorway to success. In 1967 John answered an ad in the NME that would lead to one of the most important partnership's John would ever form. The Artists and Repertoire manager for Liberty Records, Ray Williams, placed the ad looking for song writers and both John and a young lyricist named Bernie Taupin answered the ad. Taupin wrote the lyrics and John put them to music. The newly formed team didn't stay long at Liberty, quickly moving to rival label, DJM Records. Over the next two years the duo wrote easy-listening songs for many of DJM's biggest artists, but they also wrote more complex music for John to record. John's debut album Empty Sky (1969), was largely ignored, however his second album, Elton John , released just a year later, produced John's first Top 10 hit (in both the US and UK), "Your Song". After the release of his second album John had his first American concert at The Troubadour in LA and from this first performance, he showed a natural proclivity to showmanship that would eventually make him one of the world's most popular live performers. Over the next 18 years John's career skyrocketed as he released one album almost every year, most notably: Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player (1973), Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973), Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975), and Rock of the Westies (1975). These albums produced numerous Top 10 hits including "Crocodile Rock", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "Bennie and the Jets", "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" and "Candle in the Wind". This latter track has been released three times -- in 1974, 1990, and 1997 -- and is the highest-selling single of all time. In 1994 John teamed with famed Broadway lyricist Tim Rice ( Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita ) to write the music for the Disney movie The Lion King . One song from the film, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight", won the duo a Grammy (Best Male Pop Vocal Performance), a Golden Globe (Best Original Song for) and an Academy Award (Best Original Song). He has composed for another Disney film, The Road to El Dorado , and several highly successful musical theatre productions, most notably Aida and Billy Elliot the Musical . John continues to perform live and release the occasional album. In 2001 he released Songs from the West Coast and declared it would be his last studio album; however in 2004 he released his twenty-eighth studio album Peachtree Road , and in 2006 The Captain & The Kid followed, an autobiographical return to the themes of 1975 album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy . He told Rolling Stone magazine in 2006 that he would like "to work with Pharrell, Timbaland, Snoop, Kanye, Eminem and just see what happens". Check out Mymusicfix for additional Audiophile Vinyl by hitting “ME” or ‘STORE’ on the Title Purchase Page to view our current items up on E-Bay. Mymusicfix has been told we have the best collection of Rare, Out of Print music collectibles on E-Bay. Standard Time. ejohn . 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