Cat. No. VV 1539: DRAGON ~ BONDI ROAD. BMG ARISTA/ARIOLA SFL 10170
USED VINYL RECORD. PART OF A COLLECTION NOW UP FOR SALE.
DRAGON ARE A NEW ZEALAND ROCK BAND FORMED IN AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND IN JANUARY 1972 AND FROM 1975 WERE BASED IN SYDNEY. AUSTRALIA. THE BAND WAS ORIGINALLY FRONTED BY SINGER GRAEME COLLINS, BUT ROSE TO FAME WITH SINGER MARC HUNTER AND IS CURRENTLY LED BY HIS BROTHER, BASS PLAYER AND CO-FOUNDER TODD HUNTER.
KEYBOARD PLAYER PAUL HEWSON WROTE OR CO-WROTE MOST OF THE GROUP'S 1970s HITS: "APRIL SUN IN CUBA" WHICH PEAKED AT No. 9 IN NEW ZEALAND AND No. 2 IN AUSTRALIA; "ARE YOU OLD ENOUGH" REACHED No. 6 IN NEW ZEALAND AND No. 1 IN AUSTRALIA; AND "STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU" REACHED No. 35 AND No. 27 IN EACH COUNTRY RESPECTIVELY THAT SAME YEAR. LATER HITS, FROM WHEN THE BAND RE-GROUPED IN THE 1980s, WERE WRITTEN BY OTHER BAND MEMBERS, OFTEN WORKING WITH OUTSIDE ASSOCIATES: THE HUNTER BROTHERS, WITH TODD'S PARTNER, JOHANNA PIGOTT, WROTE "RAIN", A No. 2 HIT IN 1983, WHILE OTHER, MORE MINOR HITS WERE WRITTEN BY THE HUNTERS AND/OR ALAN MANSFIELD, FREQUENTLY IN COLLABORATION WITH ANY COMBINATION OF PIGOTT, MANSFIELD'S PARTNER SHARON O'NEILL, MARC HUNTER'S PARTNER WENDY HUNTER, OR PRODUCERS TODD RUNDGREN AND DAVID HIRSCHFELDER.
DRAGON HAS ENDURED TRAGEDY, ADVERSITY AND NOTORIETY, AND THREE BAND MEMBERS HAVE DIED FROM DRUG-RELATED CAUSES. PROBLEMS BEGAN SOON AFETR THE BAND'S ARRIVAL IN SYDNEY IN LATE 1975, WHEN ALL OF THEIR EQUIPMENT WAS STOLEN. SEVERAL MONTHS LATER, IN 1976, DRUMMER NEIL STOREY DIED FROM A HEROIN OVERDOSE. THE FOLLOWING DECADE, IN 1985, PAUL HEWSON DIED FROM A DRUG OVERDOSE. MARC HUNTER DIED FROM SMOKING-RELATED THROAT CANCER IN 1998.
THIS SELECTION, "BONDI ROAD", IS THE NINTH STUDIO ALBUM BY DRAGON, RELEASED IN APRIL 1989, IT WAS THE LAST ALBUM OF NEW MATERIAL TO BE RELEASED DURING MARC HUNTER'S LIFETIME. THE ALBUM ACHIEVED GOLD RECORD STATUS IN AUSTRALIA. THE SLEEVE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH ONLY VERY, VERY MINOR SIGNS OF WEAR INCLUDING A VERY SMALL AREA ON THE FRONT OF THE SLEEV WHERE IT WOULD APPEAR A PRICE TAG HAS BEEN REMOVED. THE RECORD IS GRADED AS NEAR MINT CONDITION. ANOTHER RARE AUSTRALIAN COLLECTABLE SELLING FOR MUCH HIGHER PRICES ON VARIOUS MARKETS.
TRACK LISTING: Side 1 - Young Years / Blue Blue / Book Of Love / Here I Am / Ice In This Town / Gold In The River. Side 2 - Bondi Road / Summer / Family Man / Runaway / Good Time Girl.
12" VINYL RECORD
