ROGER WATERS (PINK FLOYD) Radio KAOS 1987 UK 1st PRESS
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56
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£ 56
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Aug 1, 2011
Sold Date
Jul 22, 2011
Start Date
£ 30
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Great Britain
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ROGER WATERS (PINK FLOYD) Radio KAOS 1987 UK 1st PRESS
STICKER SLEEVE, LYRIC INNER, LARGE POSTER(s), NEAR MINT
ROGER WATERSRadio KAOS
UK EMI (KAOS 1) ORIGINAL PRESSING (June 1987) OF ROGER WATERS' SECOND SOLO LP 'Radio KAOS'
IN LIGHTLY PLAYED, NEAR MINT CONDITION THROUGHOUT
MATRIX NUMBERS: KAOS 1 A-1U-1-1-2, DD, Townhouse DMM (etched) / KAOS 1 B-1U-1-2, D, Townhouse DMM (etched)
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL LIGHTLY GLOSSY SINGLE SLEEVE WITH THE ROUND"Radio Kaos Satellite" STICKER IN THE FRONT TOP CORNER
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL CARD LYRIC INNER SLEEVE
AND LARGE SIX PANEL POSTER PRINTED ON ONE SIDE OF GLOSSY PAPER (this copy actually contains two of the posters)
Storyline:
The concept is based around a 23-year-old disabled man from Wales named Billy.
Billy uses a wheelchair and is thought to be mentally a vegetable. However, Billy is highly intelligent but has no way of expressing himself.
Billy has a twin brother Benny who is a coal miner. Billy lives with Benny, Benny's wife Molly, and their children.
Unfortunately, Benny has lost his job in the mines due to the "market forces".
One night, Benny and Billy are out on a pub crawl when they pass a shop full of TV screens broadcasting Margaret Thatcher's "mocking condescension". Benny vents his anger on this shop and steals a cordless phone. Next, in theatrical fashion, Benny poses on a footbridge in protest to the closures; the same night, a taxi driver is killed by a concrete block dropped from a similar bridge (Track 2 "Who Needs Information).
The police question Benny, who hides the phone in Billy's wheelchair. Benny is taken to prison, and Molly, unable to cope, sends Billy to live with his uncle David in L.A..
Billy is gifted and can hear radio waves in his head ("Radio Waves" track 1), so he begins to explore the cordless phone, recognising its similarity to a radio.
He experiments with the phone and is able to access computers and speech synthesisers, he learns to speak through them.
He calls a radio station in L.A. named Radio K.A.O.S. and tells them of his life story about his brother being in jail ("Me or Him" track 3), about his sister-in-law not being able to cope and sending him to L.A. to live with his uncle Dave ("Sunset Strip" track 5), and about the closures of the mines ("Powers that Be" track 4).
Billy eventually hacks in to a military satellite and fools the world in to thinking nuclear ICBMs are about to be detonated at major cities all over the world whilst deactivating the military's power to retaliate ("Home" track 6 and "Four Minutes" track 7).
The album concludes with a song about how everyone, in thinking they were about to die, realises that the fear and competitiveness peddled by the mass media is much less important than their love for family and the larger community. ("The Tide is Turning" track 8).
The album is dedicated "to all those who find themselves at the violent end of monetarism."
Side A:
RADIO WAVES
WHO NEEDS INFORMATION
ME OR HIM
THE POWERS THAT BE
Side B:
SUNSET STRIP
HOME
FOUR MINUTES
THE TIDE IS TURNING (AFTER LIVE AID)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, bright and unmarked labels with just a handful of light spindles
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces retain their original deep, glossy sheen with just some wispy light hairlines - these have no audio consequence
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Apart from the occasional, intermittent light 'tick' (very, very minor and non-intrusive) the album plays beautifully throughout with no scratches, no loud clicks or pops and no surface noise to speak of.
A very nice copy and surprisingly the first one I have ever offered for sale, as even though I've heard many copies over my 5+ years on eBay these have invariably all sounded rough with excessive surface noise and clicking - so it's extremely rare to find a copy which plays as beautifully as this
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Clean, fresh, unmarked and unworn - practically 'as-new'
INNER SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Again, clean, fresh and unmarked with no seam splits
POSTERS: NEAR MINT
Both posters are unused with only light signs of handling
HAVE A LOOK AT MY PICTURES - I USUALLY TAKE QUITE A FEW SO YOU CAN GET A CLEAR INDICATION OF EVERY DETAIL OF THE ITEM
I HAVE UPLOADED AS MANY AS I CAN BUT I WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO SUPPLY ANY ADDITIONAL PHOTOS ON REQUEST
AND PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME WITH ANY QUERIES YOU MAY HAVE
ALL RECORDS ARE PROFESSIONALLY CLEANED ON A 'MOTH MKII Pro' BEFORE DISPATCH AND PACKAGED WITH THE VINYL OUTSIDE OF THE SLEEVE TO PREVENT ANY 'KNIFING' DURING TRANSIT
A QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
POST & PACKING
UK: 1st Class: £4.00 (recorded delivery)
EUROPE: Airmail: £6.00 or £11.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £10.00 or £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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436 (GS 6.1.1 (436))
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