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The BossUnofficial/pirate Label (Cat #): CBS (23.354) Format: 7" Country: Argentina Release date (Original year): 1985 (1985) I have 2 copies
A1- THUNDER ROAD
B1- YOU CAN LOOK (BUT YOU BETTER NOT TOUCH)
B2- TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT
Notes from Lost In the Flood:
Originally reported to be a "genuine, withdrawn CBS Argentina release", this 3-track EP compiling "Thunder Road", "You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)" and "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" has, quite disappointingly, turned out to be a fiendishly clever fake. When first surfacing in 1985, copies of "The Boss" (bearing the catalogue number 23.354 and featuring a superb, totally unique full-colour picture sleeve) were originally available exclusively through dealers in the UK, which prompted a handful of skeptical collectors to do a little more research on the item. After the Argentine branch of CBS denied to ever have pressed an EP like this, it eventually came to light that the record actually had been manufactured by three bootleggers at an Irish pressing plant in a quantity of 5,000 copies.
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