Smudge wrote:
Thanks for your post, Alan.
After all these years I hadn't realised (or had lost sight of the fact) that LST had been briefly released on Island; mine was bought very soon after it appeared in the UK stores, but is on Polydor.
Were Island copies restricted to mainland Europe only (it would have been on Atlantic in North America) and imported to the UK from there?
LST was released on the Island label, at least in parts of Europe, not sure for other territories. Island albums catalogue numbers of the time began with ILPS. In my long lost Guinness Book of (British) Hit Albums, LST is shown with a catalogue number begining ILPSX, with the X suggesting the export market? A girl working in my office at the time walked in carrying a copy one day & it had a sticker marked 'Import' on the top right of the front cover. I think it cost something like 50p more than a 'home' released album IIRC.
PS - the official UK charts of the time had (import) next to the title. As I said previously, number 19 doesn't seem particularly high placing, especially compared to Bryan & Roxy's other album chart placings of the period, but was high for an import album.