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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Ade Macrow 20th Jul 2016		Vinyl Album Stackridge - Extravaganza	Rocket was indeed distributed by Island when it started and there are copies of this album with the label also having the Island' credit in white perimeter text. There were no extra goodies in any version of the disc, by way of posters or owt else. At the launch gig/party for Rocket Records - which some of us were invited to attend - as well as Elton, John Reid et al, there were also some senior Island honchos (not Chris Blackwell, though).
Ade Macrow 10th May 2015		Vinyl Album Donovan - Donovan's Greatest Hits	They're the 1968 lushly orchestrated (and, imo, vastly inferior) re-makes. You probably know why these were substituted - because Peter Eden and Geoff Stephens (Eden-Stephens) and Iver Recordings were sub-franchised to Pye in '65. By the time this album was due for release, Pye only had the right to release Most-era material onwards. Hence the re-recordings. What was bad was the lack of a sticker or anything else to indicate that CTW and C weren't the original cuts. Many purchasers were confounded to hear songs sounding nothing like the versions they'd grown up with and probably bought on singles four years before! Nowadays, the record company would turn this into a virtue, boldly proclaiming "With two new, alternative recordings of Catch The Wind and Colours!" or somesuch.
Ade Macrow 3rd Apr 2015		Live Music Status Quo @ King's Cross Cinema	Some of us 'attended' anyway, being unaware of cancellation at the time.
Ade Macrow 13th Jan 2014		78 RPM Betty Wells, Bill Marine And The Playmates - Gingerbread Man / Little Brave Sambo	Also interesting that this issue gives Roy Freeman as composer of both songs, whereas the Happy Times release states Leslie and Vincent as writers of each number.
Ade Macrow 13th Jan 2014		78 RPM Betty Wells, Bill Marine And The Playmates - Gingerbread Man / Little Brave Sambo	...from a far more innocent, less 'knowing' age.
Ade Macrow 13th Jan 2013		78 RPM Mr. Burt Shepard - The Man That Came Over From Ireland	Obverse simply states 'Reproduced In Hanover' but I 'think' this was a British release, nevertheless. Happy for database to be amended if anyone feels/knows otherwise, however.
Ade Macrow 15th May 2013		Magazine Disco 45	Fortunately, I kept all mine (although I've recycled/passed on a lot of other stuff). Kept all my Record Song Books, too. The patina of passing decades now gives them an extra wistful nostalgic edge, as small markers of an age long gone. (Sadly).

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