Elvis Costello, I cant stand up for falling down/ girls talk 2 Tone Rare
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You are bidding for a rare 7 inch record. This was handed to me at an Elvis Costello gig at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park in 1980. The reason for its pressing and subsequent non sale was I understand as follows:-
Costello had been signed to Radar in 1978, via a licensing deal from Riviera Global Productions. Radar collapsed towards the end of 1979, and so Elvis's manager Jake Riviera alighted upon the Specials' 2-Tone label as an ideal venue for a holding operation - a one-off single - until Elvis sorted out a deal for the Get Happy!! album. WEA, who had distributed Radar, were less than delighted: they felt they had a stake in Costello's career by virtue of the success of the records they had distributed for him, and so they obtained a court injunction to stop the 2-Tone single being sold.
By March '80, the situation was clarified: F-Beat was set up by Riviera as an independent company, but WEA continued to distribute their records. In the meantime, there were several thousand 2-Tone singles to dispose of. These were handed out free to the audience at a London's Rainbow Theatre gig.
The record is in a very good condition but without its original white paper sleeve.
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