Mick Rock

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On June 1, 2016, Mick Rock did a signing for the "unlimited" edition of his book, The Rise of David Bowie, at Taschen in New York City, and I went. Of course I got an…

Times Square movie poster, Australia, February 1981

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      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.…

Times Square Australian Daybill

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  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…

Movie 81 No. 2, February 1981

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"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…

Films Illustrated, Vol. 10 No. 113, February 1981

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"If the story sounds as though it makes sense, it doesn’t..."     This was dated February but was probably on the stands while Times Square was still in theaters. EMI certainly expected it to…

Times Square UK Press Kit (post 4 of 4)

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Here 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…

Soundtrack Ad, Melody Maker, November 15, 1980

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"AFTER ALL THE MOVIE ALBUMS RELEASED THIS YEAR COMES THE DEFINITIVE ROCK SOUNDTRACK FROM THE FORTHCOMING ROBERT STIGWOOD FILM 'TIMES SQUARE'"         Even as Times Square was opening and closing in the…

Film Review, Vol. 30 No. 10, October 1980

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"'I'd sung in a choir when I was 12,' Robin chirps..."           Assuming that any periodical dated October probably hit the stands in September, here's a British magazine devoting an entire…