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Times Square movie poster, Australia, February 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail The Australian movie poster featured the glorious Mick Rock photo of Robin that graced the earliest piece of Times Square advertising, which is possibly my favorite image used to promote the movie. Once I’d found this I was looking forward to having it framed, but unfortunately not only are the Australian…
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JUKE, No. 302, February 7, 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail The soundtrack album cover image on the cover of Australia’s Juke no. 302 is the only Robin content in the issue, but it’s still a remarkable piece of Times Square history. In Melbourne at least, PolyGram Records promoted the heck out of the film’s premiere for an entire weekend, and the magazine gave away…
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Dolly No. 128, June 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail“I love to sing but whether people like to hear me, is another matter.” Times Square was a distant memory in the US in June 1981, when Dolly No. 128 came out in Australia. Alison Gardner’s interview with Robin covers little new ground, repeating Robin’s discovery on the steps of Brooklyn Tech…
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The Australian Women’s Weekly, Vol. 48 No. 45, April 15, 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail The April 15, 1981 Australian Women’s Weekly featured Larry Hagman on the cover, a pin-up poster of Adam and the Ants on the inside back cover, and an interview with Robin on page 119. The interview goes over much the same ground as most of the previous interviews she gave: her discovery on…
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Three photos from March 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailI know nothing about these photos, except that they date from March 1981, and that they’re owned by Trinity Mirror and are part of the Daily Mirror Mirrorpix archive. In my opinion, they’re similar in style to photos that were published in Australia and presumably taken during her visit there, leading me to speculate that…
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TIMES SQUARE IS MUSIC OF THE STREETS
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail WHAT: A yellow-orange, red, and black sticker, 2ΒΌ inches in diameter, with text reading “Times Square is music of the streets.” WHERE: Australia. The tag line on the Australian posters was “Times Square is the music of the streets.” The sticker omits the first “the.” Also, where the phrase is in a graffiti-like…
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Times Square Australian Daybill
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail According to IMDb, Times Square opened in Australia on February 6, 1981. Robin and her mother went there to continue RSO/EMI’s publicity tour, and I’m pretty sure she made a brief but strong impression on Australian television discussing her discovery and career-to-come. As this was just before the home consumer video recording market…
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Movie 81 No. 2, February 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail “There’s a hot new talent, Robin Johnson in Robert Stigwood’s Times Square…” Times Square was still in theaters in London when the February Movie 81 came out in Australia and editor John Fraser made the above announcement. The two-page spread later in the issue is comprised of “An Appraisal by Terry O’Brien,”…