Plastinka "Poyet Elton John"

Vinyl record "Poyet Elton John" (Melodii ‎ – C 60—15147-8, the USSR, 1980)
License of an album "A Single Man" of 1978, the twelfth studio album of Elton John. Eto the first album where Gary Osborne replaced Berney Taupin as the author of the text. Eto also the first of two albums of Elton John (the second of which is called "Victim of Love"), in whom there are no tracks written by Berney Taupin in the original version. Eto the first album after its debut "Empty Sky" without producer Gus Dagen. Participants of its group returned: the percussionist Ray Cooper and the guitarist Davey Johnston (played only in one song in an album). Unlike the previous compositions in which at first verses were written here John began with a melody on a piano, and the album so accidentally appeared. Eto was also the first album of John in which he began to sing in a lower case.
Employees and players of football club Watford which chairman at that time was John provided background vocals in Big Dipper and Georgia songs. On these tracks the background vocals of female collective of a label of John of "Rocket Records" announced as The South Audley Street Girls Choir also sound.
Picture for a cover was taken in Long Uok, parts of the Big Windsor park in Berkshire. In the late seventies John ceased to wear the trademark glasses on public, and it is reflected by the photo of an album.
Alby was released on October 16, 1978 on MCA in America and on Rocket in Great Britain. Singles from an album: "Part-Time Love", October, 1978; "Song for Guy", November, 1978 and "Return to Paradise", 1979. "Song for Guy" made almost global success, having reached a high point everywhere, except the USA and Canada where Johns label, MCA Records, did not feel that it has a potential, despite recent success of tool "Music Box Dancer".
"A Single Man" was the first album of John which was officially released in the former USSR though its previous releases were imported by smuggling into the country in various forms. On was let out after success of its concerts of "A Single Man in Concert" in Moscow and Leningrad. Est two differences from a signature album. First, the album was renamed into "Poyet Elton John". Secondly, on some prints "Big Dipper" and "Part-Time Love" because of a plot of songs were removed. It is curious that John executed "Part-Time Love" on a show in the USSR without objections of the Soviet officials.
In the USA "A Single Man" received gold in October, 1978 and platinum in November of the same year. As well as many plates of John of the end of the 70th - the 80th years, it received ambiguous comments of critics.
Condition of a plate - F, condition of a cover - of River.