ROD STEWART A Night On The Town 1976 UK RIVA 1st PRESS w/INNER MINT
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Oct 7, 2021
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ROD STEWART A Night On The Town 1976 UK RIVA 1st PRESS w/INNER MINT
ROD STEWARTA Night On The Town
1976 UK RIVA (RVLP1) FIRST PRESSING
A BEAUTIFUL COPY
ONCE PLAYED AND LIKE-NEW
MATRIX: RIVLP-1 A2 SLOW ARUN / RIVLP-1 B2 FAST ARUN
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT COVER “Made and printed in England by Gothic Press Ltd., London SE9 2EQ"
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL THICK CARD INNER SLEEVE
In some ways, it's easy to think of A Night on the Town, Rod Stewart's second album for Warner, as a reprisal of the first, cut with many of the same musicians as Atlantic Crossing, produced once again by Tom Dowd, and even following its predecessor's conceit of having a "Slow Side" and "Fast Side" (granted, this flips the two around, opening with the slow one first). Superficially, this seems true, but A Night on the Town has a crucial difference: despite its party-hearty title, this album finds Stewart folding folk back into his sound, a move that deepens the music tonally and emotionally, particularly in the case of "The Killing of Georgie (Pts. 1 & 2)," Rod's most ambitious original. A winding, sensitive narrative about the murder of a gay friend -- a hate crime years before the term existed -- "The Killing of Georgie" finds Stewart filtering Dylan through his own warm, conversational style, creating a remarkable work unlike anything else in his body of work, yet the song's smooth synthesis of folk storytelling, soul, and incipient disco act as an appropriate conclusion to a side-long suite of songs of seduction, beginning with his classic come-on "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)," running through his splendid reading of Cat Stevens' "The First Cut Is the Deepest," and his fine original "Fool for You." On the Fast Side, Stewart has only one original -- the lewd, riotous "The Balltrap" -- but he more makes up for it by spinning two country classics, Gib Guilbeau's "Big Bayou" and Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life," into thick, Stonesy rock & roll, and turning Manfred Mann's "Pretty Flamingo" into a rave-up. With all this in mind, A Night on the Town isn't a revival of Atlantic Crossing, it's its inverse, with Stewart shining as an interpreter on the fast songs and writing the best slow ones, but it's also its equal, proving that Stewart could still stay true to his open-hearted, ragged soul while on a big budget
Slow Side:
Tonight's The Night (3:55)
The First Cut Is The Deepest (4:38)
Fool For You (3:50)
The Killing Of Georgie (6:51)
Fast Side:
The Ball Trap (4:40)
Pretty Flamingo (3:27)
Big Bayou (3:56)
The Wild Side Of Life (5:05)
Trade Winds (5:17)
LABELS: MINT
An immaculate set of labels with just one light spindle trace on one side, none on the other
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
One or two harmless hairlines from the thick card inner sleeve otherwise pristine
VINYL Audio: MINT
Plays as-new throughout with nothing but a (very) occasional static tick but I did not clean this copy as it looks so immaculate so these will no doubt disappear after a clean/few spins
SLEEVE: MINT
As crisp, clean, sharp ad fresh as the day it was made
INNER SLEEVE: MINT
Again, like new, no splits, perfect condition
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Tracked)
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INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £25.00 (International Tracked)
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Combined Post: Additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
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