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When Cooking Vinyl reissued The Wedding Present’s 1987 debut as George Best Plus in 1997 (COOK 134), the album was expanded with the singles the band released on Reception around it. This lot gathers the test pressings for that reissue alongside the original records it drew from.
At its center is a complete set of four 12-inch white-label test pressings from the French plant MI, labeled “COPS,” “COOK 134,” and “Échantillon,” Faces A to D. With them is a CD-R in a plastic wallet, hand-titled “George Best Plus T.P.,” and a sheet of handwritten notes checking the test pressings track by track. Then come the source records: “Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now?” on 12-inch (REC 011/12), CD (REC 011CD), and cassette (REC 11C); “Nobody’s Twisting Your Arm” on 12-inch (REC 009/12); an original 1987 first pressing of the George Best LP (Reception LEEDS 1); and a sealed George Best cassette.
Key details & collectability
- Four 12-inch George Best Plus test pressings, Faces A–D, a complete set
- Reference CD-R hand-titled “George Best Plus T.P.” with handwritten test-pressing notes
- “Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now?” on 12-inch, CD, and cassette
- “Nobody’s Twisting Your Arm” 12-inch
- Original 1987 first-pressing George Best LP and sealed cassette
Provenance
- From the archive of producer and engineer Chris Allison, who produced The Wedding Present’s debut album, George Best.
A percentage of Chris Allison’s proceeds from this collection will be donated to Restore The Music, a social impact charity that addresses systemic inequality in music education by providing capital grants to state schools in areas of high socio-economic deprivation.
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