1980 – Page 2 – Robin Johnson

Times Square UK Pressbook, 1980-81, pages 6-7

4 October, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

This is the center spread of the glossy UK pressbook for Times Square. Of the seven images circling the European logo, four are cropped from photos used on UK lobby cards (clockwise from top left, that would be One, Two, Five, and Seven). Of the three remaining: Four is a

Times Square UK Pressbook, 1980-81, pages 8-12

22 September, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The second half of the US pressbook was entirely made up of variations of the movie poster for different sized newspaper ads. The UK version relegates the available promotional materials to the last three pages, and devotes pages 8, 9, and 10 to reprinting biographical articles from the

Times Square UK Pressbook, 1980-81, pages 1-5

10 September, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

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

Record World, Vol. 37 No. 1729, September 13, 1980

1 May, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

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

I Wanna Be Sedated

8 October, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

I 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

Bande Originale du Film Times Square (soundtrack album, French edition)

3 August, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

I 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

Musica Original de la Pelicula “Times Square”

26 April, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

I 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,

TIMES SQUARE soundtrack album promotional mirror

Record Mirror, 1980

4 April, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

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

“6”

24 March, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

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

Screen International No. 246, June 21-28, 1980

2 March, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

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

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