Homosexuals The Homosexuals Record RR 18 UK 1st A1/B1 45 RPM vinyl + insert

	£		125
	$		166

The Homosexuals "The Homosexuals' Record" Recommended Records RR 18  UK 1st press. Compilation 45 RPM, Vinyl LP released,  with a blue insert containing a letter from Chris Cutler entitled "A note from Recommended about the technical Quality of the recordings - & a few other things.", in 1984.
The vinyl appears to have been lightly played and is in great shape. It played through beautifully on my stereo - no hiss, stick or jump. It is housed in its original sleeve, which has some light ring-wear front and back, but which is otherwise in good condition, with no rips or writing. The spine is intact and legible. Matrix/Run Out Side 1 : RR 18 A1 Matrix/Run Out Side 2 : RR 18 B1
The Homosexuals are an English punk/post-punk band. The band have been described as "punk visionaries".
The Rejects were formed in the bar of Goldsmiths College in South London in 1976, when ex-Sunderland art school students John Hazzard (real name: John Wilkins) and Glenn Hutchinson recruited Bruno Wizard (real name: Bruno McQuillan) to drum for their nascent band. He in turn introduced them to Howard H, a well known drummer, and as rehearsals got under way, Wizard took on the role of frontman and Hutchinson was side-lined. Wizard then recruited Ian Kane, who added more songs to Hazzard's original set of compositions, and to express his disquiet with the modern world and disappointment with his 1960s heroes. The Rejects played their first gig at punk club The Roxy in January 1977, without a bass player, supporting the Damned and the Vibrators. In the following five months, the Rejects played with Wire, Generation X, the Jam, Eater, 999 and Sham 69 on multiple occasions, with Wizard becoming increasingly confrontational (though no more tuneful) to their audiences. Performances routinely descended into violence, with dates at the Albany in Deptford and Barbarella's in Birmingham confirming the band as a bad risk for PA hire companies.
In the summer of 1977, Hazzard was dropped from the band, going on to form the proto-thrash group Auto da Fe. Wizard recruited Jim Welton on bass for a new line-up of the Rejects, which included David Dus on drums and occasional itinerant guitarists, including Stevie Savage and Jerry Wigens. Dus was the drummer for Wayne County (later to become Jayne) during their 1977 tour of the UK. Wizard set up auditions to find a permanent guitarist, and Anton Hayman was recruited.
For Wizard, the name "the Rejects" was too deeply embedded in what he regarded as "the new conformity of punk", leading to the name change to the Homosexuals. Dus could not take being in a band called the Homosexuals and duly left, although Welton and Hayman approved of the change and remained. The band then lived in a series of squats while making music and recording. Their angular guitars, complex melodies and experimental leanings distanced them somewhat from the punk rock being created by their contemporaries and cemented their reputation as a precursor to post-punk. The band's work during this period would lead to their later recognition as a pioneer of D.I.Y., along with such bands as This Heat, Desperate Bicycles and Swell Maps. They released few recordings during their initial lifetime, and most of what did appear was in small vinyl runs on self-funded labels. The bulk of the band's studio material was recorded at Surrey Sound during 1978–79 with producer Chris Gray; the 16-track studio was run by Gray and his brother Nigel (who produced albums by the Police and Siouxsie and the Banshees). Wizard refused to perform on "the circuit" and thus the Homosexuals only did a handful of gigs, and refused to do interviews. Despite this lack of visibility, their debut 7", "Hearts in Exile", pressed in an edition of 2,000 copies, still managed to sell out in a few days. A self-titled EP followed.
Welton left the band in 1980, forming Amos & Sara with Chris Gray; Wizard and Hayman continued recording as the Homosexuals, along with visual artist and sometime vocalist Susan Vida, releasing a cassette of material in 1982 before disbanding in 1985. The only full-length album by the band, "The Homosexuals' Record" (1984), was compiled by Recommended Records from existing studio masters and rough cassette mixes of the Surrey Sound recordings.