A typical black-and-white album advertisement quoting Jon Landau's famous words simultaneously appeared in various Japanese FM and music magazines in late 1980. |
Recently, I dug out such a concert review reported by one of those invited by CBS/SONY to attend a Halloween show in LA (October 31, 1980). It was written by Sayuri Yamamoto (1953—), a female popular music critic, and published in an early 1981 issue of FM fan, a major biweekly FM magazine here (previously mentioned in the last part of the blog post on 12/03/2022).
S. Yamamoto has also been known as a disc jockey. One of her radio programs in the old days on NHK-FM (軽音楽をあなたに), whose translated title is Easy Listening For You, brought my first listening experience to Devil With The Blue Dress Medley from the NO NUKES soundtrack album over four decades ago (see 04/25/2019). Although the report is okay and nothing to rave about for die-hard fans like me, it is a full-color lead-off article of the issue with some nice stage shots from the tour, which would have satisfied the record company's expectations for spreading and promoting the artist and his new album.
The extended version of Prove It All Night is found as Track 8 on Disc 3, although the performed date is listed incorrectly. Early Doberman copies are characterized by a limited serial number stamped on the accompa- nying insert and unmodified generic CD-R discs without artwork (see another image on 12/03/2022). |
Various flyers are available in Japanese promo/sample copies for Springsteen LP titles (e.g., see 7/18/2015). However, this one is probably the only example that features concert reports, not advertising or promoting an album or singles therefrom. | |
These LA shows were also reported on an A4-sized, one-side promotional flyer titled "Bruce in L.A.," which was included in a sample copy for the Japanese double LP (CBS/SONY 40AP1960-1). As shown on the right, it carries a brief note mainly for the closing night (November 3), translated as follows: "The concert began at 8:35 p.m. on the evening of November 3 and lasted 25:05 a.m., including a 30-minute intermission. Only one person in the world, Springsteen, could mesmerize 17,000 people and drag them into a whirlpool of energy for 4 hours without any huge gimmicks!" Besides the set list for the first night (October 30), the flyer also prints a stage shot with the Big Man and an illustration of the concert venue.
Because the album was commercially issued in Japan on November 1 (two weeks behind the U.S. release date), the advanced sample copies ahead of the official release must not have contained this flyer, even if some other handouts and paper attachments, such as album information sheets, had been included.
— Continued to Part 2.
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