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Poster intended for record stores, promoting the soundtrack to and impending release of the movie "Times Square" (1980).  Text:  The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack A Robert Stigwood Production TIMES SQUARE Coming to a Theatre Near You Oct. 17th A 2-RECORD SET  Featuring Music Of: SUZI QUATRO, THE PRETENDERS, ROXY MUSIC, GARY NUMAN MARCY LEVY & ROBIN GIBB, TALKING HEADS, JOE JACKSON XTC, THE RAMONES, ROBIN JOHNSON & TRINI ALVARADO THE RUTS, D.L. BYRON, LOU REED, DESMOND CHILD & ROUGE GARLAND JEFFREYS, THE CURE, PATTI SMITH GROUP, DAVID JOHANSEN PRINTED IN USA P-201 © 1980 RSO Records Inc RSO Records, Inc.
 

The top of this poster uses the elements of the album cover art. The text strips have been moved, and the title has been enlarged, tilted to the right rather than the left, and has had most of its color removed, all to take advantage of the larger space and to be more legible from a distance. Pammy and Nicky have also been tilted sightly to the right. Where we expect to see Tim Curry’s face, we have the RSO cow on a yellow blob, itself atop a red circle. The bottom of the poster is the purple pixellated art from the inside of the album gatefold. The text strips listing the bands have been spaced out, and the punctuation at their ends removed.

This poster is promoting “A 2-Record Set.” Almost offhandedly it mentions that Times Square is “Coming to a Theatre Near You Oct. 17th.”

You know, I may have talked one of these off the wall of the upstairs record store at the Quakerbridge Mall, but I can’t remember for sure anymore.

 

 

“Times Square” Original Motion Picture Soundtrack promotional poster p-201
color, 36″ (H) x 24″ (W) (work); 1080 px (H) x 718 px (W), 96 dpi, 571 kb (image)

1980
inscription:
The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
A Robert Stigwood Production
TIMES SQUARE™
RSO® Records, Inc.
Coming to a Theatre Near You Oct. 17th
A 2-RECORD SET
Featuring Music Of:
SUZI QUATRO, THE PRETENDERS, ROXY MUSIC, GARY NUMAN
MARCY LEVY & ROBIN GIBB, TALKING HEADS, JOE JACKSON
XTC, THE RAMONES, ROBIN JOHNSON & TRINI ALVARADO
THE RUTS, D.L. BYRON, LOU REED, DESMOND CHILD & ROUGE
GARLAND JEFFREYS, THE CURE, PATTI SMITH GROUP, DAVID JOHANSEN
PRINTED IN USA P-201
RSO® Records, Inc.

 

 

2 Replies to “Soundtrack Promotional Poster P-201

  1. Yeah, it’s old news, there’s a link near the bottom of the right column, but I’m not going to delete your message, because the more links the better. Anybody checking it out, be warned that she generally only interacts online for a day or two every several months.

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