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Post by tullpress on Aug 18, 2019 15:40:22 GMT
Hi all, Looks like I have an unidentified publication date which needs confirming, for this article -- www.tullpress.com/rm18aug73.htmWonder if anyone is able to confirm? Record Mirror was published weekly in 1973, and 18 August was just my best guess at the time I transcribed this article, from a scrapbook. A
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 19, 2019 6:09:45 GMT
Hi all, Looks like I have an unidentified publication date which needs confirming, for this article -- www.tullpress.com/rm18aug73.htmWonder if anyone is able to confirm? Record Mirror was published weekly in 1973, and 18 August was just my best guess at the time I transcribed this article, from a scrapbook. A I'll have a look through the scrapbooks but I don't remember seeing that particular article. Will get back to you if I find anything.
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Post by tullpress on Aug 19, 2019 9:48:38 GMT
Now I check: the London event described in the article must've taken place after 18 August, when PP became no. 1 in the US album charts.
So it's unlikely this was the 18 August issue of Record Mirror (or any mag) -- must be the week or two after that.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 20, 2019 6:41:53 GMT
Now I check: the London event described in the article must've taken place after 18 August, when PP became no. 1 in the US album charts. So it's unlikely this was the 18 August issue of Record Mirror (or any mag) -- must be the week or two after that. A As an aside, the location of the event now seems to be offices/flats as the pub seems to have shut-up-shop around 2014 according to web sources.
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Post by tullpress on Sept 12, 2019 11:36:16 GMT
Update on this: I managed to find someone with a complete set of Record Mirrors from 1973, and he can find no trace of that article in August-Sept issues.
The thing is, I transcribed that clipping from a scrapbook, and only assumed the source was Record Mirror because it was referred to in the article, as though IA was having a dig at the reporter's paper.
However, the style of the piece -- slangy, first-person -- isn't really Record Mirror's style: that's much more a Sounds/NME/Melody Maker thing.
So I'm wondering whether it was taken from Sounds/NME/Melody Maker on either 25 Aug or 1 Sept 1973.
If anyone has those issues to hand (I don't), and is able to check, I'd be grateful.
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Post by tullpress on Sept 12, 2019 11:40:51 GMT
I also don't have a current email address for Mike Wain, whose scrapbook it was.
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 12, 2019 19:29:49 GMT
The style, if you can call it that, is a pathetic imitation of Lester Bangs.
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Post by tullpress on Sept 15, 2019 9:28:22 GMT
OK — my Record Mirror checker has had another read-through, and he’s found the article this time ..... in the 18 August issue!
So my guess has been right all along.
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Post by tullpress on Sept 15, 2019 10:18:24 GMT
Plus, since I was also sent a scan of the whole page, I can see it belongs to a weekly feature page called 'Keeping up with Jones', with all articles written by Record Mirror editor Peter Jones -- so there's your author.
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