KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are in A&R Recording Studios, Midtown Manhattan, in September 1975 for Television's "Marquee Moon", released as the title track of their debut LP on Elektra in February 1977...

"The New York City based band, Television, had originally featured both Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell, who had been to high school together in Delaware. But by 1975 they had settled down to this line up: Verlaine, Billy Ficca, Fred Smith and Jimmy Rip.

When this record came out, it was clearly considered a Punk LP, and I think it helps show how much variety there was available under the banner Punk at that time.

​An attitude or an approach, but never a formula." - KV

KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are back in Stax Studios, 926 E. McLemore Ave, Memphis, on the 20th December 1965 for Wilson Pickett's "Ninety Nine And A Half (Just Won't Do)", first released on "The Exciting Wilson Pickett" LP by Atlantic in 1966...

"Alabama born in 1941, Wilson Pickett moved to Detroit in his early teens and soon became involved in the Motor City's gospel scene. He eventually came to the attention of Atlantic's Jerry Wexler as the co-writer of a Solomon Burke hit. Once teamed with the set up at Stax in 1965, and then with Muscle Shoals' Fame Studios in 1966, Wilson had a heap of hits of his own.

He also had his problems with alcohol, cocaine and a fiery temper and left us, aged 64. I once read an interview he gave which he concluded by saying "Don't write anything nice about me, remember I am known as the Wicked Pickett"." - KV
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