PETER GABRIEL Shock The Monkey (Extremely rare one sided metal based ultra high-grade methyl cellulose lacquer acetate for the 1982 UK 7 single released through Charisma. There is a Tape 1 studio label on one side with the artist song title & duration all hand annotated. The surface of the acetate is clean & shows merely the lightest few cosmetic scuffs as expected. These were pressed in extremely small numbers for sonic review very few of these ever escape the studio & were never intended for general public consumption in this form. A must have for any collection)ÞÞAn acetate is a transitional stage between the master tape and the finished vinyl record.Originally acetates were used for home recording in the days before tape