ALAIN BOUBLIL and CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHONBERG – LES MISERABLES Soundtrack LP – Nr MINT 1985 UK ORIG LONDON CAST

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg – Les Misérables
(First Night Records  1985   ENCORE1)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1/A1/B1 – UK Pressing

Gatefold Sleeve in Nr MINT- condition
– some slight wear to edges/corners & light crease in top left corner
Inner Sleeves have small split in the bottom

Double Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Les Misérables, colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz, is a sung-through musical with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and a book by Schönberg and Boublil, based on the 1862 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. The French musical premiered in Paris in 1980 with direction by Robert Hossein. Its English-language adaptation, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, produced by Cameron Mackintosh, has been running in London since October 1985, making it the longest-running musical in the West End and the second longest-running musical in the world after the original off-Broadway run of The Fantasticks. Many other long-running productions followed on Broadway and around the world, and a film adaptation was released in 2012.

The Original London Cast recording was the first English language album of the musical. Recorded in 1985, when the show premiered, it is closest to the original French concept album. For example, “Stars” appears before “Look Down” and shortly after, the original version of “Little People” plays, which was later incorporated into the revealing of Javert. It also features a song titled “I Saw Him Once”, sung by Cosette, which was later incorporated into the first part of “In My Life”. The album has sold 887,000 copies in the US as of 2013.

Track listing