Time And A Word - Original 1970 UK Atlantic label 8-track LP - Plum & Orange Labels

rare original 1970 UK Atlantic label 8-track LP... mostly self penned material but also a cover of Stephen Stills Everydays and Richie Havens' No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed... recorded with  a small orchestra of brass and string session musicians on most of the album's songs.

Vinyl has generic upper orange and lower plum coloured company labels and machine stamped matrix information:
Side 1: 2 4 0000 6 A✳ ▽ 1  119
Side 2: 2 4 0000 6    B ▽ 1   111
stressing that this copy was manufactured from the first mastering, first fathers and mothers - early stampers... a first pressing... pressed by the Chingford/Walthamstow, Greater London, based Phodisc plating, lacquer cutting and pressing plant.

Vinyl is held in a generic polylined company inner sleeve with lower plastic bags wwarning box - ultimately in a MacNeill Press Ltd. manufactured matt finish and piched spine picture cover.

Condition: VG+(+) (Vinyl And Labels)/VG+ (Insert)/VG+ (Cover):
Vinyl is still lustrous and has just a light degree of superfine sleeve wear - by far nithing which stems from a needle. Vinyl itself is conservatively graded very close to near mint/excelletn. Labels are near perfect and has only a very light degree of of spindletrace on Side 1 label - almost none on the Side 2 label - all spindlewear is located within the centre ring - extremely cloe to centre hole on Side 2. There is no wear to centre hole itself. Vinyl is overall at least close to near perfect/excellent.
Insert has a bend corner - a couple of cut out holes - a little upperright corner rubbing - graded straight VG+.
Cover has a very nice front and back - a light degree of edge and opening wrinkling and a slight translucent age spot in the end of the front title - almost no wear. Cover has a vague rubberstamped name on upper left back and just a faint couple of age spots in the encircled back Yes and front title logo areas.
Seams are intact - slightly pressurized spine easily reable - corners are very nice with almost no wear except for the lower spine corner dent - all in all a series of not so tough flaws - overall a very nice cover - conservatively graded VG+ - overall a very nice and more than decent copy.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed (Richie Havens, Jerome Moross) 4:45
2. Then (Jon Anderson) 5:42
3. Everydays (Stephen Stills) 6:05
4. Sweet Dreams (Jon Anderson, David Foster) 3:46

Side 2:
5. The Prophet (Jon Anderson, Chris Squire) 6:31
6. Clear Days (Jon Anderson) 2:03
7. Astral Traveller (Jon Anderson) 5:47
8. Time and a Word (Jon Anderson, David Foster) 4:29

Recorded 17 December 1969 - 5 February 1970 at Advision Studios, London

Pressed by Phonodisc Ltd., Chingford/Walthamstow, Greater London,

Credits:
Jon Anderson - Vocals
Chris Squire - Bass Guitar, Vocals
Peter Banks - Guitar, Vocals
Tony Kaye - Piano, Organ
Bill Bruford - Drums, Percussion

Additional musicians:
David Foster – vocals on "Sweet Dreams", acoustic guitar on "Time and a Word"
Tony Cox – orchestration, Orchestral Arrangements, conductor
Royal College of Music students – brass, strings

Technical Credits:
Tony Colton - Production
Eddie Offord - Engineer

Artwork:
Laurence Sackman - Photography, Cover Design
Graphreaks – design co-ordination
Barrie Wentzell – photography