The 20th of February 1974
Official U.K. Albums Chart results from Sunday the 17th to Saturday the 23rd of February 1974
Cut-off for sales figures was up to the end of Saturday the 16th of February
Results counted from Sunday the 17th,
and published on Wednesday the 20th of February 1974.
Rod Stewart / Faces
Live Coast To Coast: Overture And Beginners
At No.30, on the “The Top 50 U.K. Albums Chart”, the week of my 2nd Birthday, are Rod Stewart / Faces with Live Coast To Coast: Overture And Beginners.
An audible snapshot,..
…of a selection of songs, from a couple of performances on the West Coast.
By now, these five guys, which these days welcomed their new bass player Tetsu Yamauchi into the fold (Ronnie Lane having now departed to enjoy the life of a gypsy and start a solo venture in earnest), were giving these American audiences a boozy taste of their well established, British soaked, characteristically boisterous and high-spirited (in more ways than one) spectacle, for a good old knees-up in the sunny climbs of California.
From reading their jocular liner notes…
…which, after the affectionate laddish bout of inter-personal ribbing (make of that comment what you will), and it then goes on to acknowledge the barman’s tab receipt, why do I get the feeling that they’re half inebriated at the point where they haven’t even first walked on stage yet. Not that would have mattered in any way to the paying audience, who would have been almost certainly half-cut on whatever was their proffered recreational stimulant of choice themselves, to get the most out of their night out.
I probably would have put money down at that time, that until the band heard the album back at them, and referenced back to the set-list, their first reaction that they had played any of it at these venues, most probably would have been “Did we?”.
It is in fact rumoured, that when this album is opened up and played, it emanates an effervescence into the air, the like of which is exactly the same as when the welcomed British bar door is opened from the cold wet dark street, which has been deftly trodden to reach it, and now left alone to the elements outside, and you are entered into a warmly lit and well stocked seventies London pub.
The album…
…had debuted into the chart last month on the 20th of January, just missing the Top 10 at No.11, and had then scaled the heights to reach it’s peak of the Top 3 a couple of weeks later at the beginning of this month before a wobble of three places took it back to No.6, which it then tumbles off its bar-stool to fall this week to this position.
From here,..
…the album will bound back into the Top 20 to sit next week at No.18, but will then slip on its own spilled pint to send it back down to No.31; after which it is escorted out of the premises after the 9th of March, with its winnings from the official chart fruit machine to pay for its bus ride home.
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