Re: Marquee Moon's 40th Anniversary release date

[Dave Marin <dwmarin@gmail.com>]

Thanks Leo.  Hadn't seen that NY Rocker piece.  That's pretty definitive - 2/8.

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> On Feb 8, 2017, at 9:15 PM, Leo Casey <LeoCasey@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Dave,
> 
> I think John Rockwell's "this past week" was/is a little sloppy (lazy?), and
> I wouldn't have much faith in trying to work backwards from the article's
> date of 2/20/1977. (Moreover, 2/20/1977 was the date the article was
> published, but Rockwell could have easily written that article 7-10 days
> earlier before handing it in to his editor at the NY Times.)
> 
> I have always gone with February 8, 1978, but I'd have to go looking through
> my yellow, dog-eared clippings to see if I can definitively say its release
> date was the 8th.
> 
> The only thing I could find on Keith's The Wonder was this,
> http://www.thewonder.co.uk/nyr1.htm
> 
> which claims February 8th
> 
> There is also this:
> http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1438-televisions-punk-epic-marquee-moon-40-yea
> rs-later/
> 
> 
> And this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquee_Moon#CITEREFAnon.2007a
> 
> Albeit Wikipedia is only as accurate as the person who is the author and
> his/her sources.  The long article on the album has many footnotes, but its
> Feb. 8th date does not have a footnote/source specifically dedicated to that
> date.
> 
> Keith, what's your take on the definitive release date?
> 
>  Leo
> 
> PS: Dave, maybe you could track down Jack Holtzman[sp?], the founder of 
> Elektra Records---if he's still alive--and ask him :> )
> Richard Lloyd or Fred Smith would know. From reading a million interviews of
> Verlaine, he has a terrible memory (he even got razzed about how poor it was
> it by the rest of the band when there 3rd album came out in 1992).
> 
> 
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> Subject: Marquee Moon's 40th Anniversary release date
> 
> Lots of Marquee Moon celebrating today, 2/8/17, 40 years since the album's
> release.
> 
> However, does anyone have hard evidence this really was the actual release
> date?
> 
> My research found John Rockwell in the 2/20/77 NY Times reference the
> release by saying "Now, with the release this past week of Television's
> Elektra album, Marquee Moon..."
> 
> He didn't write "last week" (supporting a 2/8 date) he wrote "this past
> week", IMO supporting a release date earlier THAT WEEK; possibly 2/15.
> (Tuesdays became the customary lp release date later on but not necessarily
> in the late seventies.)
> 
> Not as compelling is a line from the Nick Kent NME Television story from
> February 1977 (found on The Wonder site) where he writes "Marquee Moon
> released MID-FEBRUARY in America and probably the beginning of March here."
> 
> Mid-February sounds closer to February 15th than February 8th.
> 
> Admittedly I'm a bit anal when it comes to correct dates in history!!
> 
> Thoughts?  Proof?
> 
> Thx
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> 
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