RIAA 6x Multi-Platinum Album award for Quiet Riot album Metal Health. Released on Feb. 1, 1983, the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA on May 23, 1995 for six million copies sold.* Remember Quiet Riot's Kevin Dubrow (1955-2007) and Frankie Banali (1951-2020) with this award.
Quiet Riot had a hit with this, their third album, with a cover of Slade's "Cum On Feel The Noize", which reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, and follow up hit "Metal Health (Bang Your Head)" which peaked at #31. The tracks fueled the album's rise to #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, the first heavy metal album to do so. It also did well on charts in Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
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Item Highlights:
- RIAA 6x Multi-Platinum Album award
- In Excellent condition
- Award from 2014-15
- Presented to PR executive
- Known as a RIAA "serial number hologram" award, they were made from 1998 to present
- Award measures approx. 19" x 23"
- Great collectors item for any Quiet Riot fan
- FREE insured shipping to continental U.S.
- International shipping available
Detailed Item Description: This is a RIAA 6x Multi-Platinum award that would have been manufactured sometime around 2014-15, making it about ten years old. It was presented to the late Lee Runchy by Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali, as noted on the presentation plate. Runchy handled PR for the 2014 Quiet Riot documentary Well Now You're Here, There's No Way Back, which was named after a line from "Metal Health (Bang Your Head)". The film was directed and produced by drummer Frankie Banali's fiancée Regina Russell.
The award is in Excellent condition. It has likely been reframed or rebacked but all the internals are original.
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*RIAA sales data source: RIAA.com