Talk:X-Ray Spex

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[edit] Released In America

The band's record was available in America when it was released, but only in hard to find places, and in places like Manhattan. I worry that Spex fans might despair of anyone in US ever having known the material the way that particular sentence is presented. I listened to it quite a bit at school in the early 80s. It is actually was quite popular in New England, New York and Los Angeles at the time as a non-radio play new-wave band. To give a reference point, Nervus Rex Joy Division and Pigbag were about equally as popular in America at the time. It was the very early days of new wave. Any exposure all of the less well known bands here would owe a lot to Elvis Costello who was very well promoted from the time of his first tour in 1977. McDogm--McDogm 08:07, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Released in France

The album was released in France and had some press articles , the group was famous for the people involved in the punk deflagration.The punk was not very good mediatised in the Rock Press but it was and the scene(from UK and France after some weeks )was existing there too with Fanzines and some specialised indie record shops were accompanying the feeling of ebulition of these times..