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typo in Amazon review of TP 1st Ed.?
December 15, 2016 12:10PM
"The one drawback is that the book no longer includes both the U.S. and U.K. labels when both exist, but it may list a U.S. label with a U.K. release date."
[www.amazon.com]

Really? The only reason I know about some U.K. labels, other than the trusty "imports" bin at Tower Records, was BECAUSE of TP.

Example:
HEAVEN 17
Penthouse and Pavement (UK B.E.F./Virgin) 1981
Heaven 17 (Arista) 1982
The Luxury Gap (Virgin/Arista) 1983
How Men Are (Virgin/Arista) 1984
Endless (UK Virgin) 1986
Pleasure One (Virgin) 1986
Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho (UK Virgin) 1988 (Virgin/Caroline) 1989

And the original TP books were published in an era when U.K. was a suffix for everyone from The Chameleons UK to Wham! UK, so avoiding record label distinctions really wasn't an option.

I don't have any hard copy TP's that *don't* have a distinction.
Re: typo in Amazon review of TP 1st Ed.?
December 30, 2016 11:48PM
Yeah, this is incorrect. I went to look up Heaven 17 in the 1997 TP Guide to 90s Rock, and of course, there's no entry there since they had no releases in the 90s. However, Heavenly does appear there and the very first entry for them is for "Heavenly vs. Satan (UK Sarah) 1991". There were no hard copy books after that one, so I have no idea what they're talking about.
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