ROGER WATERS (PINK FLOYD) Radio KAOS 1987 UK 1st PRESS *COMPLETE* UNPLAYED/NM
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£ 81
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Aug 13, 2018
Sold Date
Aug 3, 2018
Start Date
£ 25
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Great Britain
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ROGER WATERS (PINK FLOYD) Radio KAOS 1987 UK 1st PRESS *COMPLETE* UNPLAYED/NM
ROGER WATERSRadio KAOS
UK EMI (KAOS 1) FIRST PRESSING (June 1987)
AN OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL COPY - AS GOOD AS NEW
MATRIX: KAOS 1 A-1U-1-2- TOWNHOUSE DMM D KAOS 1 B-1U-1-1- TOWNHOUSE DMM DD
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL SLEEVE "Sleeve printed in England""Manufactured in England" WITH FRONT STICKER
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL LYRIC INNER SLEEVE AND LARGE SIX PANEL MAP/POSTER
Storyline:
The concept is based around a 23-year-old disabled man from Wales named Billy.
Billy uses a wheelchair and is thought to be mentally a vegetable. However, Billy is highly intelligent but has no way of expressing himself.
Billy has a twin brother Benny who is a coal miner. Billy lives with Benny, Benny's wife Molly, and their children.
Unfortunately, Benny has lost his job in the mines due to the Thatcher's "market forces".
One night, Benny and Billy are out on a pub crawl when they pass a shop full of TV screens broadcasting Thatcher's "mocking condescension".
Benny vents his anger on this shop and steals a cordless phone.
Next, in theatrical fashion, Benny poses on a footbridge in protest to the closures; the same night, a taxi driver is killed by a concrete block dropped from a similar bridge ("Who Needs Information”).
The police question Benny, who hides the phone in Billy's wheelchair. Benny is imprisoned and Molly, unable to cope, sends Billy to his uncle David in L.A..
Billy is gifted and can hear radio waves in his head ("Radio Waves"), so he begins to explore the cordless phone, recognising its similarity to a radio.
He experiments with the phone and is able to access computers and speech synthesisers, he learns to speak through them.
He calls a radio station in L.A. named Radio K.A.O.S. and tells them of his life story about his brother being in jail ("Me or Him"), about his sister-in-law not being able to cope and sending him to L.A. to live with his uncle Dave ("Sunset Strip"), and about the closures of the mines ("Powers that Be").
Billy eventually hacks in to a military satellite and fools the world in to thinking nuclear ICBMs are about to be detonated at major cities all over the world whilst deactivating the military's power to retaliate ("Home" and "Four Minutes").
The album concludes with a song about how everyone, in thinking they were about to die, realises that the fear and competitiveness peddled by the mass media is much less important than their love for family and the larger community. ("The Tide is Turning").
The album is dedicated "to all those who find themselves at the violent end of monetarism."
("The Tide is Turning".........I wish)
Side A:
Radio Waves (4:58)
Who Needs Information (5:45)
Me Or Him (5:28)
The Powers That Be (4:09)
Side B:
Sunset Strip (5:02)
Home (6:37)
Four Minutes (4:40)
The Tide Is Turning (After Live Aid) (5:44)
LABELS: MINT
An immaculate set of labels with no spindle traces or any sign of use and the spindle hole is still tight
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like-new with nothing but harmless hairlines from the inner
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Plays as-new with nothing but some ticks (as found on brand new vinyl) but generally very clean on the quieter moments.
Nothing really and I did not clean this copy as it looks so immaculate so these ticks will no doubt disappear after a clean/few spins
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
The single cover with front sticker is as crisp, sharp and fresh as the day it was made
INNER SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Again, like-new with nothing but a little natural light record impression
POSTER: MINT
Possibly never even opened before my photographs
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
UK: £11.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £18.00 (International Signed For delivery)
Combined Post: for items purchased within any 10 day period - additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
Guarantee: all records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any way I will email you when payment has been received to let you know when the item will be posted. Please leave feedback upon receipt of the item so that I know you have received it safely. Thanks 837 (GS 7.0.15 (837))
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