{"id":3493,"date":"2019-01-26T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2019-01-22T23:38:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T23:38:04","slug":"running-with-the-boss-sound-on-this-day-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=3493","title":{"rendered":"Running With The Boss Sound – on this day in history"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Running With The Boss Sound –\u00a0 Today is January 26th and for me, one of my favourite and most cherished albums was released into the world way back in 1979.\u00a0 I still play it regularly as it had a big influence on an impressionable\u00a0young lad.\u00a0 From the attractive lady on the cover to the pills never mind four gangly lads with leather trousers and scruffy died hair. It was everything I wanted it to be and I can still remember\u00a0twisting my mothers arm to let me go home from Woolworths with my very own copy tucked under my arm and when I got home it might as well have been welded to the house stereo because it only left the turntable to get turned over for what must have been weeks or months even.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Valley Of The Dolls by Generation X might not be as revered as ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’ or ‘The Clash’ it doesn’t get talked about as much as The first Joy Division album or the first few classic Buzzcocks records but to me it might only be outclassed from the 70’s releases by ‘Damned Damned Damned’, ‘LAMF’ and ‘Machine Gun Etiquette’.\u00a0 It was the Dogs danglies as far as I’m concerned and still is and much like the previously mentioned favourites it still gets played quite frequently by myself.\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

‘January that year was the first glimpse of these four pirates as ‘King Rocker’ is released as a single and one of those seminal moments in time as Idol sneered his way through their performance on TOTP.\u00a0 Reaching a very respectable number 11 in the UK charts at the time was quite an achievement although their label wasn’t so happy.\u00a0 It came out with a picture of each band member on specific colour pressings something that bands have copied since to increase sales – me I only ever got the tony James cover but it was on red vinyl (still got it)<\/p>\n