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Record World Magazine 1979 KISS Criss BeeGees Boston McCartney Wings Elvis Presley Blondie Motown Records Gordy Gaye Ross Nazareth Cher Boomtown Rats. The full page advertisements are great for framing. February 10, 1979. 52 Pages including covers. (See 6 images accompanying this listing). Lots of historic information in this issue. Find out what was happening at that moment back in the burgeoning day. February 10, 1979 : * Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson Cover and short piece on Motown Records "Pops We Love You" tribute to Berry Gordy Sr inside. * Presley TV Bio Strives For Musical Authenticity, article. * Bee Gees double page colour advert for Spirits Have Flown. * Jim Morrison, The Doors, full page ad for Roadhouse Blues from An American Prayer. * Boston, incredible centerspread full color two page advert for Don't Look Back going Quadruple. * McCartney & Wings Sign With Columba. Short article about signing. * FULL PAGE ADVERTISEMENTS - most specific to the magazine with emphasis on current singles release of most of the full page ads and suitable for framing as a poster: Boomtown Rats rare advert / Nazareth (has small hole in lower portion and 3 minute niks at side edge) / Kean Brothers LP / Angela Bofill / Fatback Band Freak The Freak The Funk / Max on RCA / Doobie Brothers Minute By Minute / Bobby Caldwell / Kayak / more. * LP Album Reivews: Brooklyn Dreams / Boomtown Rats / Horslips / The Police / Tonio K. / Fatback / Meco / Sister Sledge / Rick James / more * Singles 45 RPM Reviews: Blondie Heart Of Glass / Peter Criss of Kiss You Still Mater To Me / Tyrone Davis / Billy Swann / Keane Brothers / Funkadelic / Cher / Joe Cocker / more. * PHOTOS: Ian Hunter / Tony Orlando / Lenny & The Squigtones to Casablanca / Energetics Signs to Atlantic / McQuinn, Clark & Hillman Set Tour / Peaches & Herb Feted by Polydor / G.Q. To Arista / more . * Chryslis Sees Strengthened Sales Potential AS A Result Of Indies Move To Branch System. article. * Switch To Branch Distribution Viewed As Mixed Blessing By Smaller Retailers, article. * The Retail Report - Salesmaker Of The Week : Elvis Costello, Armed Forces. * Top 100 Album Chart: #1. Rod Stewart, Blondes Have More Fun. * R&B Singles Chart Top 75 : #1 Peabo Bryson, I'm So Into You. * Top 40 R&B LP : #1. Chic, C'est Chic. * See some of the images for articles and advertisements in this issue - 6 images. History In The Making. Condition: The pages are in Excellent or better Condition. The Cover is in-between Good to Very Good Condition. The cover is tight to the pages, and the pages are tight to each other. No missing pages. No cut outs, no rips, no tears other than a small rip/hole on the front lower cover and some fray/niks at the lower cover, no scotch tape, no handwriting. Light line on back cover. With the beauty of the patina of age, slight vintage wear and shelf life and rock & roll time to this great back in the day historic piece. Packed with great ads suitable for framing and deep inside info. Record World is an industry weekly insider trade magazine, similar to Billboard Magazine and Cashbox Magazine. Included are the weekly 45 and LP record reviews, the Top 100 Singles and LP chart, and an amazing amount of full page ads for upcoming record releases. On slick paper. What's so exciting about Record World is it's an inside look at the 'battle plans', strategies - the hopes and dreams of the labels, management and artists unfolding just before the general public gets a whif of what was to come, as well as a copitulation, a telling of in many cases what had unfolded. There's so much information in each issue it essentially takes the mind on a trip on each and every page. And in so many instances, the ads are specific to Record World, not seen in the commercial general public magazines. It's great to see the images as you turn the pages of this back to the day magazine, but it is even more exciting to actually hold in your hands that moment in history. Some of the pages practically jumps out at you as it's pri... read more

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