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Times Square UK Pressbook, 1980-81, pages 1-5
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail I’d given up all hope of ever finding one of these when, bam, two of them turn up. It’s the EMI version of the pressbook issued in the USA by AFD. It’s shorter in page count, but larger in size, and printed in color on heavier, glossier paper. It doesn’t include all the articles…
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Record World, Vol. 37 No. 1729, September 13, 1980
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Most of the “new” items that turn up now are variations of things we’ve already seen. This Times Square soundtrack ad is identical to the ones shown here, but unlike those two it’s still attached to the magazine it was published in. It’s page 126,…
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I Wanna Be Sedated
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailI made another exception to my vow not to collect any more soundtrack-related items, because this one has a picture of Robin on it. It’s the UK version of the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” single as released by RSO as a Times Square soundtrack tie-in. I might have bought it anyway, just for the…
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Bande Originale du Film Times Square (soundtrack album, French edition)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailI made another exception to my decision not to collect any more copies of the soundtrack when I saw the bright red labels on this French edition. Sadly we don’t get all the text in French as well. It’s pretty much identical to the Canadian version, with the blank red spot in place of Nicky’s…
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Musica Original de la Pelicula “Times Square”
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailI should have posted this along with the other versions of the soundtrack album I have, but I somehow had it in my head that it was released in 1981. It wasn’t; all the international editions of the soundtrack were released in 1980, with only one exception I know of, and this isn’t it. This…
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Record Mirror, 1980
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail No, not the magazine Record Mirror. This was a promotional item given by an RSO music rep to the music director of WLKI in Angola, Indiana, along with 25 copies of the soundtrack album to give away as contest prizes. It was on display as part of his enormous album collection for over…
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“6”
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail This, I believe, is one of the photos missing from my copy of the UK Press Kit. The photo caption sheet in the press kit lists photos 6, 7, and 8 as pictures of Robin all with the same caption, and my copy only has a 7 and 8. This photo has a…
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Screen International No. 246, June 21-28, 1980
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail This is the fifth appearance Times Square made in the press that I know of. The first was a mention in Radio and Records, the date of which I’m uncertain, but since it describes the movie as coming out in the summer I’m placing it first — possibly even as early as November 1979…
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Leader, Winter 1980
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Leader was a vehicle by which Columbia-EMI-Warner film distributors promoted all their new films to UK theater owners. As Times Square was set to open in mid-January, it had a few mentions and an advertisement in the Winter edition, although it looks like the distributors were betting their big money on Flash Gordon, which…
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Times Square UK Press Kit (post 4 of 4)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailHere are the last photos from my copy of the UK Press Kit. They don’t have numbers that would match them up with the enclosed caption sheet, so I have doubts as to whether they were actually a part of it. This is the Mick Rock photo of Robin that appeared on the contents…