ROD STEWART A Night On The Town 1976 UK RIVA 1st PRESS w/INNER - UNPLAYED - MINT
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Dec 28, 2017
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ROD STEWART A Night On The Town 1976 UK RIVA 1st PRESS w/INNER - UNPLAYED - MINT
ROD STEWARTA Night On The Town
UK RIVA (RVLP1) FIRST PRESSING (July 1976)
A BEAUTIFUL COPY - UNPLAYED 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
A pristine set of labels - no spindle traces or any sign the record has ever been played - spindle hole still tight
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both surfaces shine like-new
VINYL Audio: MINT
Plays as-new throughout with nothing to fault
SLEEVE: MINT
As clean, crisp and fresh as the day it was made
INNER SLEEVE: MINT
Again, as-new - no seam splits
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 Delivery)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £18.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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