RIAA Platinum LP award for Rolling Stones album Tattoo You. Released on Aug. 24, 1981, the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA on Oct. 30, 1981 for one million copies sold. Remember Charlie Watts (1952-2020) with this award.
The album featured Stones classic "Start Me Up", which reached #2 Billboard Hot 100. Other singles included "Waiting On A Friend" and "Hang Fire". Composed of tracks recorded over more than ten years, early Stones figures such as Ian Stewart, Mick Taylor, Billy Preston, Nicky Hopkins, and Wayne Perkins appeared on some tracks. The album topped the Billboard Top 200 Album, Canadian album chart, and #1 or in the top 10 ion many other country's charts. By 2000 the album was certified 4x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for four million copies sold.*
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Item Highlights:
- RIAA Platinum Album award
- In VG condition
- Award from 1982
- Presented to mastering engineer
- All original
- Known as a RIAA "strip plate" award, they were produced from 1982-85
- Award measures approx. 17" x 21"
- Great collectors item for any Rolling Stones fan
- FREE insured shipping to continental U.S.
- International shipping available
Detailed Item Description: This is a RIAA Platinum Album award that would have been manufactured in 1982, making it approx. 43 years old. It is presented to well-known mastering engineer Bob Ludwig, who mastered this album along with those from many other artists from AC/DC to Def Leppard to Dire Straits to Toto to Rush and many, many others.
The award is in VG condition with typical frame wear and mars on the plexiglass. While the manufacturer sticker has fallen off, the backing paper is original. The sticker adhesive residue size, shape and location and construction details of the award indicate that it was made by the New York Frame & Picture Co.
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As to where they came from, they could have been displayed in record label offices, recording studios, artist manager's offices, radio stations, private collector's homes and yes, of course, possibly the artist's or songwriter's home. Typically, we don't know all the places they may have been over the years other than what we've stated in the description.
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*RIAA sales data source: RIAA.com.