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Post by Partridge on Oct 10, 2023 20:55:54 GMT -5
Radio and Records, May 16, 1980 Billboard, May 17. 1980   CashBox, May 17, 1980      Record World, May 17, 1980  
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Post by eddiejinnj on Oct 11, 2023 9:04:38 GMT -5
On the first album chart above "Mad Love" is No 10 right below "Urban Cowboy Soundtrack" an album where she has a duet with JD "Hearts Against the Wind".
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Post by erik on Oct 11, 2023 9:09:38 GMT -5
If I read that Radio & Records tidbit right, then one can assume that what became known as Live In Hollywood was videotaped at CBS Television City on May 8, 1980.
Considering how much Linda abhorred music being constricted by television (especially when it was her own music), and how much she suffered from stage fright in her career, it is a testament to her professionalism that she did the HBO concert special with all the brilliance she had, and had those fans in that audience really cheering her on/ She would, of course, never admit it, but that special was really a big highlight in a half century worth of them (IMHO).
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 11, 2023 10:41:37 GMT -5
It’s interesting to see how much Linda dominated the US charts in this period but did virtually nothing in the UK …. I don’t recall her being mentioned much at all and I used to scour record magazines back then.
I really wished I’d experienced her more during this time.
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Post by PoP80 on Oct 11, 2023 13:00:45 GMT -5
If I read that Radio & Records tidbit right, then one can assume that what became known as Live In Hollywood was videotaped at CBS Television City on May 8, 1980. Considering how much Linda abhorred music being constricted by television (especially when it was her own music), and how much she suffered from stage fright in her career, it is a testament to her professionalism that she did the HBO concert special with all the brilliance she had, and had those fans in that audience really cheering her on/ She would, of course, never admit it, but that special was really a big highlight in a half century worth of them (IMHO). That time period would have coincided with rehearsals for Pirates at the Delacorte. After, she did those shows in the Park and Broadway, it boosted her confidence and her stage presence. |
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Post by PoP80 on Oct 11, 2023 13:03:20 GMT -5
It’s interesting to see how much Linda dominated the US charts in this period but did virtually nothing in the UK …. I don’t recall her being mentioned much at all and I used to scour record magazines back then. I really wished I’d experienced her more during this time. I wonder why she wasn't more popular in the UK. I suppose it was competition with other artists who were dominating the music scene at that time. |
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Post by RobGNYC on Oct 11, 2023 16:08:04 GMT -5
On Linda's relative lack of success in the UK, I think it's pretty simple--she didn't tour there (except for the small Hasten Down the Wind tour fall 1976). Linda in Rolling Stone (October 19, 1978):
Q: Do you think that you might make records but not tour?
A: I don't think that's possible really. I can't think of anybody that's been successful doing that, and if they have been, it's really been the exception. You pretty much have to tour if you want to make records. It's like you do the record, you do the tour.
It was so different from today. You couldn’t “drop” an album on iTunes at midnight, or post the track list on Facebook or X or Pitchfork, or the album cover on Instagram, or put videos for the singles on YouTube. There were relatively few ways to promote an album and touring was a big one.
Taylor and Beyoncé—massively successful tours but they don’t seem aimed at promoting a particular album. Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” album was released July 2022 and the tour started May 2023. Taylor’s “Eras” tour seems more a career-spanning victory lap than album promotion (although of course she will sell a sh*t-load-and-a-half of albums, but not just her most recent, which seemed to be the main point of touring in the 1970s).
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Post by erik on Oct 11, 2023 18:24:45 GMT -5
Quote by PoP80:
Quote by RobGNYC:
I doubt that it is both of those things, but I think a third element has to be factored in, and that is the attitude of the British pop music press and even of the British music scene itself during that time. I don't think she was ever fully appreciated by them, if in fact she was even appreciated by them at all.
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