Radio City Big Star Vinyl ***FIRST PRESSING *** Ardent Records ADS-1501 EX
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Radio City Big Star Vinyl ***FIRST PRESSING *** 1974 Ardent Records ADS-1501 VG+. Condition is Used. Dispatched with Royal Mail 1st Class. Vinyl Excellent. sleeve has some age discolouration, ring wear and small cut out top right , small crease bottom left. Heavy duty cardboard won’t fall apart any time soon. In a new archive quality poly-ethylene lined inner sleeve designed to protect and preserve the vinyl. A power pop classic!The original Ardent RecordsLP featured record-jacket photographs by noted photographer William Eggleston, including The Red Ceiling on the cover.[1]Eggleston was a close friend of band member Alex Chilton. On its release in February 1974,[16] Radio City met with general acclaim. Record World judged the musicianship "superb"; Billboard described the album as "a highly commercial set", and Cashbox called it "a collection of excellent material".[17] However, sales were thwarted by an inability to make the album available in stores. Stax Records, primary distributor for the band's Ardent Records label, had recently placed distribution of its catalog in the hands of the much larger Columbia Records; Radio City's release coincided with a disagreement between Stax and Columbia, which left Columbia refusing to distribute the catalog. As a result, the album achieved only minimal sales of around 20,000 copies at the time.
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