As this is on MCA, this cannot be a 1972 release, 1972 is just the copyright year. Original releases that year were on ABC, Dunhill, Probe or Stateside, with transfer to MCA coming in 1979 when MCA bought the ABC catalogue. Plus, this MCA logo and label design didn't come into use until 1973, and the reverse of the obi shows the JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR movie soundtrack, which was a late 1973 or early 1974 release around the world. Discogs has this as a 1979 release, which I think is most likely correct - I think there's a "P '79" in the bottom right-hand corner of the back cover, and as MCA changed its label design again to the blue sky and rainbow one in January 1980 (possibly later in Japan or other countries), then this could only be a 1979 or 1980 release.