RIAA Platinum LP award for Rush album Moving Pictures. Released on Jan. 1, 1981, it was certified Platinum by the RIAA on April 27, 1981. Remember Neil Peart (1952-2020) with this hard to find award.
Featuring the Rush classics "Limelight", "Tom Sawyer", and "Vital Signs", all of which received massive radio airplay, the instrumental "YYZ" also garnered a Grammy award nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. The album reached #3 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and the UK chart, and #1 in the trio's native Canada. It became Rush's biggest selling album in the U.S. and did well in many other markets around the world as well. By 2021 it was certified 5x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for five million copies sold.*
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Item Highlights:
- RIAA Platinum Album award
- In VG condition
- Award from 1981
- Presented to mastering engineer
- All original, rebacked
- Known as a "floater" award because the components appear to "float" above the matte, they were made from 1975-1981. RIAA "floater" awards numbered only 25-50 plaques worldwide for any given single/album
- Award measures approx. 17" x 21"
- Great collectors item for any Rush 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 1981, making it approx. 44 years old. It is presented to well-known mastering engineer Bob Ludwig, who mastered this and many other Rush albums along with those from numerous other artists from AC/DC to Def Leppard to Dire Straits to Toto to the Rolling Stones and more.
The award is in VG condition with typical frame wear and mars on the plexiglass. The award has been rebacked but the construction details of the award indicate that it was made by the New York Frame & Picture Co.
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*RIAA sales data source: RIAA.com.