SPEEDY KEEN "PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS" 1973 TRACK/MCA VG/VG OOP CLASSIC POP/ROCK LP

Description: NOTE: MAIL RATES HAVE RECENTLY GONE UP A LITTLE RECENTLY, MY FLAT RATE ENCOMPASSES THAT WITH A LITTLE EXTRA TO COVER THE COST OF THE RECORD MAILERS. THANKS! INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING IS BACK TO EBAY GLOBAL SHIPPING (I THINK I CHANGED IT BACK OK) THESE ITEMS ARE FAIRLY HEAVY AND COSTS VARY WEIGHT AND COUNTRY, PLEASE MAKE SURE I SHIP TO YOUR COUNTRY! THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY (SORRY ABOUT THAT), BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON OR BUYING. THANKS FOR LOOKING. FEEL FREE TO ASK QUESTIONS. NOTE: eBay HAS TAKEN IT UPON THEMSELVES TO REMOVE WHAT THEY CALL “OUTSIDE” LINKS, THESE ARE IN THE HTML DESCRIPTION, AND CAN'T EVEN BE SEEN IN MY ITEM DESCRIPTION, SO FROM NOW ON IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE ITEM &/OR ARTIST LOOK 'EM UP, ON WIKI, OR OTHER SOURCES ETC. (SORRY 'BOUT THAT!) CLEANING OUT MORE LP'S. SOME FROM THRIFT STORES, SOME FROM MY MUSIC LIBRARY, AND SOME FROM MY RADIO FRIENDS SOLD OR GIVEN TO ME, SOME FROM THE NETWORK I WAS AT. NOTE: I DO NOT ACCEPT "BEST OFFERS" I WANT EVERYONE TO HAVE A FAIR SHOT AT WHAT I AM SELLING. THANKS! I DO COMBINE SHIPPING! THIS IS A PHOTO OF THE ACTUAL ITEM FOR SALE, SORRY IF THE PICTURE(S) ARE A BIT BLURRY OR IF THERE'S A LITTLE GLARE. I HAD A SMALL HEART ATTACK A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND AM SLOWLY LETTING GO OF MY ALBUM COLLECTION, THIS COMES FROM OVER 40 YEARS OF COLLECTING AND ALSO WORKING IN RADIO WHEN STATIONS WERE TRANSITIONING FROM LP's TO CD's. ARTIST: SPEEDY KEEN TITLE: “PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS” TRACK LISTING-SEE PHOTOS: (SEE BELOW) 1 Old Fashioned Girl (Dedicated To Mike Shaw) 3:44 A2 Keep Your Head Down 2:39 A3 Let Us In 3:35 A4 Somethin' Else 2:15 A5 The Flying Wino 1:17 A6 Don't You Know He's Coming 3:45 B1 Positively 4th Street 4:08 B2 Forever After 3:01 B3 That's The Way It Is 4:03 B4 Keep On The Grass 4:01 B5 Aires Lady 4:21 B6 Lesliana 1:55 NOTES:Recorded in England All Selections Published By Track Music, Inc., except "Somethin' Else (A4)" Metric Music Co. and "Positively 4th Street"(B1) published by Warner Bros. Inc. Thanks to: Doris Troy, Ethyl Coley, Rosetta Hightower, Ruby James, Judy Powell, Joanne WHite. Special Thanks to Keith Harwood and Olympic Studios, Penny and Island Studios, Damon and I.B.C. Studios, Dave McDougal Jimmy McColloch, Michael Mertz, Jim Pitman Avery, David Montgomery, Chrissy Steward, Martyn Ford. ©℗ 1973 Track Records MATRIX # MCA94 W2 ◈-P-◈ RECORD LABLE: TRACK/MCA RECORDS CAT.#: MCA-331 YEAR OF RELEASE: 1973 RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN VG/VG-CONDITION, NO VISIBLE LINES, SCRATCHES, CHIPS, SMUDGES, FINGERPRINTS OR BLEMS, BOTH LABELS IN NM- CONDITION, BOTH SIDES LOOK AND PLAY VERY CLEAN, THERE'S SOME VERY,VERY LIGHT BACKGROUND SOUND ON THE LEAD IN GROOVES . JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN VG/VG- CONDITION, NICE CLEAN STRAIGHT LINES, NO SEAM SPLITS. THERE'S A TINY “DRILL HOLE” IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF THE JACKET, DONE BY THE RECORD COMPANY (SEE PHOTOS). THERE'S SOME VERY VERY LIGHT EDGE WEAR IN A COUPLE OF PLACES (SEE PHOTO) MORE INFO: THIS RECORD IS OUT OF PRINT. COMES IN ORIGINAL MCA INNER SLEEVE (ALSO HAS A SMALL “PUNCH HOLE”. ARTIST INFO:SPEEDY KEEN BIO/INFO/OBIT- Speedy Keen, who has died suddenly aged 56, was a mainstay of Thunderclap Newman, the pop outfit responsible for the anthemic Something In The Air, a post-flower power call-to-arms during a period of student sit-ins and anti-Vietnam war demonstrations. Keen, however, had emerged from a more innocent pop era. Born in Ealing, west London, and raised in Hanwell, Middlesex, his background was as mundanely suburban as that of his friend Pete Townshend, who was in the same year at Acton grammar school. Like Townshend too, the adolescent Keen was looking for an opening in pop. By 1965 he had led several also-ran beat groups, notably The Tomcats, but was more gainfully employed as road manager for John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Then his composition, Armenia City In The Sky, was recorded by The Who for 1967's Sell Out album. Via Pete Townshend too, Keen was to be recruited as singing drummer in Thunderclap Newman, an ensemble centred initially on Andy Newman, a middle-aged multi-instrumentalist. The line-up was completed by 16-year-old Jimmy McCullough (later in Wings). This disparate trio was signed to Track, the record label founded by The Who's managers, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp. Something In The Air was Thunderclap Newman's first single, written by Keen and produced by Townshend. Its chief selling points were Keen's thin, nasal tenor, and Newman's interlude on piano and saxophone. To promote the record Kit Lambert turned to some dubious stunts: one of them was to mail Radio One presenters a pill in a plastic envelope with a label reading "Take this and it will change your life." It was a powerful laxative. Nevertheless, Something In The Air topped the domestic chart for three summer weeks in 1969, and reached the US Top 40 by autumn, a climb aided in part by its inclusion in the film soundtrack to The Magic Christian, one of Peter Sellers' lesser comedies. More appositely, it was to be heard too in 1970s The Strawberry Statement, a semi-documentary about campus unrest. This coincided with the release of the hit's belated follow-up, Accidents - another Keen opus - which lingered for one solitary week in the British Top 50. Sales were as modest for the associated album, Hollywood Dream, even after a Rolling Stone review hinted that Keen was Townshend in a blond wig. The failure of two further singles was exacerbated by problems with stage presentation, even after the hiring of auxiliary musicians allowed the versatile Speedy to commandeer the central microphone, and play supplementary guitar and keyboards when required. With the sundering of Thunderclap Newman by 1971, Keen issued a solo album, Previous Convictions. Highlights included revivals of Eddie Cochran's Summertime Blues and Bob Dylan's Positively Fourth Street, plus the spin-off single, Old Fashioned Girl. On a second offering, 1975's Y'Know What I Mean, he was assisted by members of Back Street Crawler and Rastafarian band, Third World. Keen achieved greater latter-day success as a producer, most conspicuously with LAMF by The Heartbreakers, and - also from 1977 - Motorhead's eponymous debut album. He also continued to write songs, though none were ever as negotiable as Something In The Air, whether as a chart entry for Fish in 1992 or in the use of the original version for a recent ITV commercial. NOTE: ONLY LIMITED INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING. PLEASE CHECK THE SHIPPING TAB TO MAKE SURE I SHIP TO YOUR COUNTRY BEFORE BIDDING. THANKS! ALL INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING GOES EBAY GLOBAL SHIPPING. I DO COMBINE SHIPPING. 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