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Vinyl L.P - Capitol Records - ST-11395.
1974 - U.S.A.
Art direction: John Dyer & HIPGNOSIS.
Photography: Aubrey Powell, R. Imrie.
Front photograph: Big Cigar Productions.
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Back cover
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Inner sleeve
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Inner sleeve
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Labels
The Sweet
Brian Connolly - Vocals.
Andy Scott - Guitars, synthesizer, vocals.
Steve Priest - Bass, vocals.
Mick Tucker - Drums, percussion.
Memorabilia:
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ReplyDeleteDesolation Boulevard is the third studio album by English glam rock band Sweet, released in the UK in November 1974.
Two noticeably different versions of the album were released: one by RCA Records in Europe, and another by Capitol Records in the United States, Canada and Japan.
The RCA version contains the single "Turn It Down" and the original recording of "Fox on the Run." The Capitol version, released in the United States in May 1975, includes the band's 1973 hit single "The Ballroom Blitz" and the single version of "Fox on the Run." In the U.S., the album peaked at #25 on 25 October 1975.
The album artwork was done by art design group Hipgnosis, famous for working with the likes of Pink Floyd, Genesis, The Alan Parsons Project, and Led Zeppelin.
The background photo was shot near the entrance of a rock music club called Filthy McNasty's, located at 8852 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. Today, it is the site of The Viper Room, which is where actor River Phoenix died of a drug overdose on Halloween morning in 1993.
The US front cover was slightly altered to add extra road signs and an altering of the album's title and band logo.