JOY: 24K LP [This band was originally called Band of Joy and had John Bonham & Robert Plant] !

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This is the original UK LP record by JOY,”24K.”

THUNDERBOLT RECORDS….THBL-003….1983.. but vinyl has a rare blue label !!!!

1 Submarine City 4:45
2 Ain’t Down Yet 3:22
3 Plastic Bag 4:41
4 89-89 4:03
5 Capricorn Animal 4:41
6 When You Look 4:05
7 Lifeline 3:41
8 Machinery 2:59
9 Take It Easy (But Take It) 3:32
10 New Heaven 2:30
11 Leaving the Twentieth Century 2:44
12 Getting It Steady 3:04
13 What Did You Expect? 4:36

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The Band of Joy are best known as the outfit that gave Robert Plant and John Bonham their leg-up on the stairway to Zeppelin. While that unrecorded line-up relied on its live reputation to become a Midlands legend, a revised Band of Joy finally made it to the studio in the late 1970s, having re-grouped to play benefit gigs for the families of a local band involved in a fatal motorway crash.
Robert Plant saw the bands name as his and told the record company that they shouldn’t use it. 24K eventually emerged through the independent Thunderbolt label after the group had split in 1979. Keyboard player Chetwood went on to join TPau and Kevyn Gammond and Robert Plant linked up again in the late 1990s in fun band Priory of Bryon. When Robert Plants Best Of album Sixty Six To Timbuktu emerged in 2003 there were two of the original Band of Joy demos on it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Has not dated for me.
I was in the studio for part of this recording and can swear to the blood sweat and tears these guys put into the construction of this album. The songs still stand up as far as I am concerned and it is a great pity that the release was held back so long. Paul Lockey is a great vocalist and adds a lot to his own and his band mates’ songs. The best guitar to be heard on this is from his fluent hands too. This would have sold well with the right promotion – for me it is a consistently entertaining piece of work.