Description Item Details To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the release of Jeff Buckley’s album “Grace” I offer in a charity sale my copy of this wonderful LP. This is an original 1994 vinyl pressing with a sleeve that was autographed and illustrated for me by Jeff Buckley, Matt Johnson, Michael Tighe and Mick Grøndahl after their concert at Manchester University on 3rd Sept 1994. The original vinyl LP is extremely rare. Jeff Buckley's autograph is rarer still. I have never seen any other memorabilia that has been autographed by the whole band. Jeff Buckley’s illustration on the album sleeve transforms what is an incredibly rare item of memorabilia into a fascinating document of his ideas and his work. Themes that he would return to when talking about this album and his artistic preoccupations are crystallised in his drawing. Jeff Buckley is pictured at work, mindful of Death, Love and Music The sale comprises 1. The autographed and illustrated LP complete with original vinyl record, original inner sleeve, and original outer sleeve, all in "Very Good Plus" condition 2. The original LP sales receipt, dated 30th August 1994 The Global Fund for Children - The charity that will benefit from this sale In their own words… “The Global Fund for Children UK Trust works to transform the lives of children on the edges of society – trafficked children, refugees, street children, child labourers – and help them regain their rights and reach their potential. To do this, we find and invest in under-the-radar grassroots organisations that make sure the most vulnerable children in their communities have what they need to thrive. We provide our grantees with capital, management support, training and leverage to help them grow in scale and excellence. Our grants range in size from £3K to £18K and we work with our grantees over a 3-6 year period – long enough to get them on the path to sustainability.” All funds raised in the sale will go to this charity. Anonymity for the bidders and buyer I have configured the sale to be a “private listing”. This preserves the anonymity of bidders and buyer. Unless you explicitly tell me that you wish to waive this anonymity I will not disclose your eBay ID, your name, or any information that could associate you to the purchase of this item. Authenticity of the sale items The LP, sales receipt, autographs and illustrations are genuine. I do not have a COA (Certificate of Authenticity) for the autographs from a third party. I will provide the buyer with a letter that is my personal guarantee of authenticity and provenance for the LP, autographs and illustrations. How to buy this LPThe LP will be sold in this eBay auction, with a starting price at £1.00 and no reserve. The auction will complete on 23rd August, the 20th anniversary of the album launch. Please do not contact me to ask if I will sell the LP outside of the auction. How to pay PayPal, bankers draft, cheque, BACS, Postal Order. I will be requesting that payment is made direct to the charity. Please contact me after you have won the item for further details of this arrangement. Once payment has been received and cleared by the charity the LP will be shipped to you or made available for your collection. Shipping costs Location of buyer Combined costs for tracked shipping and insurance Estimated delivery time (After cleared payment) UK £7 5-7 days European Union and Scandinavia £20 7-10 days USA and Canada £30 10-14 days Australia & New Zealand £30 10-14 days Japan £30 10-14 days Other locations Please contact me after purchase for shipping costs to your location. Please contact me after purchase for an estimated delivery time Collection by buyer No charge Available for collection once payment to the charity has cleared Other Jeff Buckley memorabilia Unfortunately, I don’t own any other Jeff Buckley memorabilia. Questions about the sale If you have a question, please contact me with a “Question for the Seller” through eBay and I will do my best to reply quickly. Please be prepared for me to publish your question and my answer in the listing. Your eBay ID will remain private. If you have a genuine need to ask me something privately then please make this clear when you contact me. When asking your question please remember... 1. This is a charity sale 2. I will not sell the item outside this auction. I’d be delighted to receive thoughts, memories or comments from other Jeff Buckley fans but I may not be able to reply to these until the end of the auction as I’ll be responding to questions about the sale before then. If you want to help in any way, you could do so in the ways suggested below. Your help You could… Add this sale to your watched items. This will boost it in eBay search results. Tweet, post, or forward links to this sale Tell other Jeff Buckley fans Sign up for the Global Fund for Children’s newsletter and social media channels Make your own donation to the Global Fund for Children (UK tax payers should go here) Set up your own project and apply for a grant from the Global Fund for Children How I got the LP and the autographs I saw the Jeff Buckley band’s set at Reading Festival 1994 after reading a few lines of recommendation in a festival preview. I hadn't worked myself very close to the stage for their show and so, while a crowd was around me, I wasn't getting crushed or pushed. The sun was blazing on the field, but we were in the cool and the shade of a big-top tent. Looking over at the stage the musicians were half hidden, highlighted occasionally by a coloured spotlight as they moved through and behind scaffold, rigging and speakers. Noise commences. One song in and I'm grinning at the sheer gorgeousness of the sound. Clarity, space, originality and power. "The band absolutely rocks! Oh, I can hear every word of the lyrics. This is so so cool!" And so there I was, lined up perfectly for the sucker punch. Delivered from the stage with precision and ferocity. I haven't been left snivelling and shivering in public by a song before, but the band’s performance of “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” saw to that. Turns out, from accounts I've read recently, that my reaction to hearing this song for the first time is far from unique. Back in Manchester, two days later, I went into our biggest record store to look for recordings. I couldn’t find anything in the racks so I asked one of the sales staff what was available to order. He consulted the till screen and asked me if I could wait while he checked. He disappeared through a door at the back of the shop. A few minutes later he came back not with an order form but with an LP that pictured a very beautiful man clutching a vintage microphone. I bought the LP. I was excited to see the band was playing in Manchester later that same week. I bought two tickets and badgered a friend to come with me. On concert day I scootered into the city with the LP sleeve and a silver pen in my backpack. The venue is small and this time I was close enough to see the faces of the band. I tried to put names to what I was seeing and hearing. I saw Jeff swooping between goofball and angel, via Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant, Maria Callas. Jeff joked between songs with Satriani style trilling on his guitar and a “yes-we-can” expression on his face. After the concert I waited with other fans, front of stage, to ask for autographs. The band emerged after the hall had cleared, finished packing their equipment, and came over to speak to us. Jeff signed my LP sleeve and sketched some figures in a thought bubble above his picture. He gave me a curious look as I said, “Oh! You’re a lefty too!” I’d noticed, of course, that he used a pen left-handed and a guitar right-handed, “just like me”. Mick signed, sketched and quipped on Jeff being the (spitting) image of Sid Vicious in the back cover photograph. Michael picked up Mick's riff and added his own signature. Matt was still stashing his cymbals but let me interrupt and autographed the LP for me too. I packed up my things, waved goodbye to the band and their friends who were chatting at the side of the stage, and left the venue. I’ve kept this autographed and illustrated LP safe for nearly 20 years. All the while the only things I knew of the band were these songs. This sale has given me a reason to find out more, covering ground I'd been wary to tread before, not wanting reminders of Jeff Buckley's death in 1997. There's some really good stuff out there and I've found that the reminders can come without spoiling what endures. Why I'm selling my copy of the Grace LP Over the years I've planned the sale of this autographed LP a number of times, either so I could buy tools for work, or to achieve a particular goal. Each time I was lucky enough to be loaned the tools I needed or I was assisted in achieving my goal before I completed the sale. Eventually I realised that I would never sell the LP for need. A couple of years ago I noted that the 20th anniversary of the album launch might be a good time to auction the LP. Since I was never going to sell for need, why not sell for pleasure? So here we are at the anniversary and the LP is for sale. All proceeds will go to the charity “The Global Fund for Children”. This sale has already turned out to be a lot of fun. It's been a great pleasure refreshing my memories of the concerts I attended and researching the album. It's been an education getting advice about the listing from friends, record dealers, the eBay/PayPal charity selling team and folks at The Global Fund for Children. It's a great opportunity to share memories with other fans. Thank you! Thanks for getting this far! :-D Hope you readers found this interesting :-) Hope you bidders get your bids in good and early ;-) Hope the right tunes find all you lovely listeners at the right times too! xxx