#record ads

"... RADIO STATIONS SCRAPPED THEIR PLANNED SCHEDULING AND BEGAN TO PLAY THE ALBUM IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED FROM START TO FINISH, INSTEAD."

PICS INFO: Resolution at 1980x1428 -- Mega spotlight on promotional poster designs for THE BEATLES' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," the band's commercially and critically-acclaimed eighth studio album, printed in Great Britain, c. 1967.

PIC #2: The same BEATLES "Sgt. Pepper" promo poster design, with different color grading and resolution -- at 799x579.

OVERVIEW: ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was the eight studio album by THE BEATLES and released on 1 June 1967 in the UK and the following day in the US. It raced to number one on both sides of the Atlantic, spending 27 weeks at number one in the UK and 15 weeks in the US. Radio stations scrapped their planned scheduling and began to play the album in full, uninterrupted from start to finish, instead. The Summer of Love had begun.

Langdon Winner of Rolling Stone, recalled:

"The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the "Sgt. Pepper" album was released. In every city in Europe and America the radio stations played [it] ... and everyone listened ... For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.""

-- SOTHEBY'S (Auctions)

"NEW SOUNDS FROM PINK FLOYD. "ANIMALS" ON HARVEST RECORDS AND TAPES."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on an original 1977 music advert for "Animals," the tenth studio album by English rock band PINK FLOYD, released on 21 January 1977, by Harvest Records and Columbia Records.

EXTRA INFO: A classic, original record advert from 1977. It is A3 in size and in 2 halves.

FILE UNDER: PROGRESSIVE ROCK -- PSYCHEDELIC ROCK -- SPACE ROCK -- AVANT-FUNK -- KRAUTROCK.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a record advert for "Ege Bamyası," the third studio album by German experimental/ progressive/ krautrock band CAN, released on November 29, 1972 by United Artists Records.

PIC #2: A group shot of CAN, c. 1972, during the band's "Ege Bamyasi" era, sans Irmin Schmidt, who played farfisa organ, electric piano, & electronics.

A GIANT DOSE OF BLOODY ROCK & ROLL -- TOURING THE UK & AUSTRALIA IN 1976.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a concert poster design for Australian rock and roll band, AC⚡DC, promoting the band's third studio album "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," in December 1976.

PIC #2: AC/DC poster and/or advertisement for the band's 1976 UK tour, also promoting the band's third studio album, "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," released on Atlantic Records, published in the October 1976 issue of the UK's "Record Mirror" weekly music newspaper.

"STAY ALIVE WITH THE MC5!" -- A THREE-NIGHT STINT -- LIVE & LOUD IN THE CITY BY THE BAY.

PICS INFO: Mega spotlight on three variations of full-page ads for American hard rock/proto-punk band, MC5, including a glossy color version, for the band's performance at the Straight Theater in San Francisco, California, USA, for three nights, on March 14-16, 1969.

FROM THE PERSONAL COLLECTION OF MICK JONES -- FROM THE ROCK N ROLL PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on assorted pages from the 1977 fanzine put together by THE RINGS punk band, to promote their Chiswick Records single "I Wanna Be Free," featuring Twink.

The zine also includes much on punk precursors The Pink Fairies and a bit on The Pretty Things, plus a brief piece on Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, and the Stars band in 1972, from the shelves of the Rock n roll Public Library and the personal collection of Mick Jones (THE CLASH, BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE).

FROM THE SUPER-SEVENTIES ROCK ARCHIVES -- ONLY ON THE LEGENDARY VERTIGO LABEL.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a print ad for "Three to Remember!," three albums on the UK's Vertigo label, featuring albums by artists as diverse as ROD STEWART, the mighty BLACK SABBATH (of course), and British prog rockers, CRESSIDA, published in the UK's musical publication, "Melody Maker," on Saint Valentine's Day 1970.

BULLDOZING-SPEEDFREAK-ROCK 'N' ROLL RISING IN THE FIRST WAVE OF UK PUNK ROCK.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a print ad for the eponymously-titled debut album by English rock and roll band MOTÖRHEAD, released by Chiswick Records in August 1977. Sleeve art by Joe Petagno.

Rock in peace, Motörmasters (1975-2015) -- "EVERYTHING LOUDER THAN EVERYTHING ELSE!!"