STAR WARS AND OTHER GALACTIC FUNK by MECO? ORIGINAL 1977 MOVIE RECORD POSTER

STAR WARS AND OTHER GALACTIC FUNK by MECO? ORIGINAL 1977 MOVIE RECORD POSTER

STAR WARS AND OTHER GALACTIC FUNK by MECO? ORIGINAL 1977 MOVIE RECORD POSTER
THE #1 STAR WARS MUSIC POSTER OF ALL TIME! OK - Here it is: A BONA FIDE ORIGINAL POSTER ADVERTISING THE SMASH 1977 HIT SINGLE BY MECO! This is a rare one folks! It's rare because this Star Wars song was an overnight sensation, much like the film was, and so there was little need to promote it beyond its initial release.

Needless to say, there were only a few Meco Star Wars advertising posters made anywhere in the world. For those who may not know how important this Meco song was to the early success of Star Wars read this brief history.

As we all know, a big part of the success of "Star Wars" came from the music. John Williams' score was the one element in the film to surpass George Lucas's expectations. Even though Williams had recently won an oscar for "Jaws" in 1976, the Academy could not deny him another award for Star Wars. Bill Murray even put words to it on Saturday Night Live. By mid-August, the main title theme zoomed to the top 10 most popular song in the country, a good time for young record producer Meco Monardo to release his new funkadelic disco version of the song. It was an immediate hit and quickly surpassed the orchestral version's #10 spot.

Muhammad Ali, legendary human being and boxing champion, was also caught up in the "Star Wars" craze. Ali used the song to introduce himself before his fight with Ernie Shavers, on September 29, 1977. Heavily influenced by the movie "Rocky, " Ali became the first actual heavyweight to proceed down to the ring with music and fanfare. Just like the Apollo Creed character in "Rocky, " Ali won only by the judges' decision. The big winner was Meco.

Two days after the fight, the song went to #1. The dance hit finished the year up at the #9 spot on Billboard's top 40 singles chart, outselling other 1977 classics such as "Car Wash, " "Dancing Queen, " "Hotel California" and the theme from "Rocky, " Gonna Fly Now. The Meco song served as a vehicle for the very first "Star Wars celebration, " decades before the goofy conventions emerged.

Because of the success of this song, 20th Century-Fox and Lucasfilm hired Meco to produce the now famous 1980 "Star Wars Christmas Album, " which is notable for being Jon Bon Jovi's first record. There's no question this Star Wars Meco poster represents one of the seminal high points in the Star Wars universe. This particular poster was released by Millennium Records for promotion in Japan, but it's printed in all English. It measures 20.25x29.25.

It worked like a charm because the poster came out perfectly! I used the best conservator in the USA.

He ONLY uses high-grade materials, such as thicker linen and thicker acid-free Japanese rice paper. The better materials cost more but make a real difference in the end result. It's flat as a pancake and as nice as can be. A finer Star Wars poster display would be hard to get. Is an accepted form of poster preservation by the Library of Congress and every Museum in the country. A lot of advanced poster buyers request and prefer linen-mounted posters because it makes framing and displaying the posters much easier - without the risk of damaging the original, especially on "full-bleed" posters. A full-bleed poster is a poster that was issued with artwork right up to the edge, without a white border.

The white you see in the photo is the white of the Japanese paper lining the linen border margin. You can see how easy it would be to damage the original poster without that extra margin of protection. The backing makes the poster much safer to handle - it GREATLY reduces the risk of damaging the original. Also, all of my linen-backed posters have been stored FLAT so they DO NOT have a curl to them - They're all ready for framing and display! Princess Leia Organa Peter Cushing....

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STAR WARS AND OTHER GALACTIC FUNK by MECO? ORIGINAL 1977 MOVIE RECORD POSTER