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Live In Session / Nirvana A Limited Edition U.S. Pressing Of The Single, Love Buzz/Big Cheese, 1988,
Lot 183
Nirvana: A Limited Edition U.S. Pressing Of The Single, Love Buzz/Big Cheese,
1988,
14 June 2022, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £8,925 inc. premium
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Nirvana: A Limited Edition U.S. Pressing Of The Single, Love Buzz/Big Cheese,
1988,
Sub Pop SP 23, 7inch, picture sleeve, 1200 pressed in total, this numbered 470 in red ink from the numbered edition of 1000, white inner with John Peel's handwritten track timings in blue ink
Sub Pop SP 23, 7inch, picture sleeve, 1200 pressed in total, this numbered 470 in red ink from the numbered edition of 1000, white inner with John Peel's handwritten track timings in blue ink
Footnotes
"They've done a limited edition of a thousand on this, it's 7-inch single, mine is number 470 so there's still time for you to get in there"
- John Peel, John Peel Show, 2 January 1989.
The above introduction leads to John Peel featuring Nirvana on his show for the very first time - the B-side Big Cheese - using the present record. With his usual prescience he declares the record to be "well worth tracking down", before playing a 1967 release, Pentecost Hotel, by a British rock band, also called Nirvana. Nirvana recorded three 'Peel Sessions' between 1989 and 1991, and all three were played on the John Peel Show on the 22nd April 1994, in tribute to Kurt Cobain.