RE: Marquee Moon's 40th Anniversary release date

["Leo Casey" <LeoCasey@comcast.net>]

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).


-----Original Message---- From: tv-owner@obbard.com
[mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com] On Behalf Of Dave Marin
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 12:42 PM
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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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