The legendary 12″ of ‘Neon Lights’ issued in the UK on luminous vinyl in 1978, backed with ‘Trans Europe Express’ and ‘The Model’. This copy was given to me recently by Steve Cook who’d had it tucked away in his collection for decades, hardly played. You can see what great condition it’s in and he’s even kept the price sticker on – £1.49 from Allders of Croydon – that wouldn’t even get you two downloads these days let alone a beautiful item like this. I tried to test how luminous it was and photograph it in the dark but had no joy, I like how you can see little bits of grit in the vinyl too where it wasn’t entirely pure. Thanks Steve!
For your info: A year or so back a guy contacted me saying he had a black vinyl copy of this. I had never heard of this before, so after a little asking around for confirmation, I said he was in possession of a rare item!
To cut a long story short, he tried to sell it on eBay for £2000, but eventually settled on £750!
I love this story, because a few months back I found another, being sound un noticed on ebay. Of course mine was a lot, lot cheaper!