This is a re-sale of the original French Neon vinyl record called "The Amazing Joan Armatrading" in a Platinum-cover for the German market with the new name "Mean Old Man".

This is indeed a reissue of the debuet-album "Whatever's For Us", initially released in 1972.

Informations from the cover:
Record title: Mean Old Man
Label: Neon
Catalog# on the cover's spine: Platinum PLP 34
Catalog# on the back-cover: PLP 34/8333014
"Country of manufacture of record as stated on record Label"
"Printed in West-Germany"

Informations from the inner labels:
Record title: The Amazing Joan Armatrading
Label: Neon
Catalog#: 8333014
There are no informations about "Country of manufacture of record stated on record Label".

Different informations about the album:
- Disc label/title: Neon/The Amazing Joan Amatrading
- Cover label/title: Platinum/Mean Old Man

There is a discrepancy between disc label and back cover regarding to A-side. Both are listing 8 tracks with different length on "Child Star", "Visionary Mountains", "Conversation" and "Head of the Table". Accurately listening to these tracks the lengths are appears as follow: 2:33, 1:46, 2:15, 2:30.