My brother has picked up, for 20 quid, a framed copy of the Yes album Relayer. It is coloured silver and is in recognition of “Outstanding sales in the United Kingdom”. Says it’s a limited edition, 28 of 50 and has a Union Jack top left.
The record itself has the Relayer centre sticker but it isn’t Relayer. The record used has about 8 tracks, which is not the Yes way.
So – does anyone know the story here? It isn’t a BPI disc with x number of sales and a silver/gold/platinum award noted. It’s suspiciously generic in its wording but, as my brother says, the record itself is a bit obscure to be bothering with producing a fake. He picked it up from a warehouse where they didn’t know who Yes is or where it came from.
My thought is that the label or publisher might have knocked these up to give to the band as a vanity thing, but I don’t know for sure. Any ideas? Does he have a genuine item of interest/value?
Has the frame got a glass cover?
I have a ( apparently) gold disc of Never Mind The Bollocks including the “Limited Edition 33 of 50” marker.
The give away with this is it is a plastic cover and pretty lightweight. I knowing ain’t real, but does look quite good.
Yes the cover is glass.
Hmm, but I think (With the Union Flag in the corner) it may be one them from The Gold Record Company, or similar seller.
I think it was Lars Ulrich who noticed pukka gold discs were likely any old record sprayed up when he saw Deep Purples Made In Japan on a record company wall – with 6 tracks
I remember a story about Rod Stewart actually taking the disc out of the frame of one of his and playing it. It was a Johnny Mathis record.
I’ve heard a similar story. Elton John’s former manager, John Reid was a friend of my parents & he & Elton did a similar thing, and/or unpicked the label to find it wasn’t the album it claimed to be.
I see these type of things all the time. The usual applies, if it looks too good to be true it probably is.
Don’t worry – nobody’s bubble is going to be burst if this is a cynical fake. However, I can understand Never Mind the Bollocks or (say) Dark Side of the Moon…but Relayer by Yes?
Does seem an unlikely candidate
Could be this one
but does still feel like an odd choice of album
20 quid is a fair price though as that through amazon is 180
Sorry Ridge, all I can see there is “We’re sorry. We weren’t able to load the preview”.
.amazon.co.uk/YES-CD-Platinum-Disc-RELAYER/dp/B00O9T948W
(try the link without https:/www – it might paste in this time)
Thanks – I can see it now. A platinum disc for worldwide sales. So a little different from the one my brother has but it clearly seems to be the same source for these things.
Fans of The Yes are crazy.
Relayer sold well. Top five in both America and the UK.
The bigger question is: the lovingly collected rock n roll tat of true fan obsessives, let alone ourselves, is often worthless outside the fan base, and often does not contain real rareity. What do our loved ones do when the inevitable happens?.
They will get a skip for most of it. Better to spare them having to deal with all that stuff by doing it oneself
My lovely wife once said “If you go before me I’m ordering a skip for that lot (as she pointed to the album shelves)”
She changed her mind when I showed her what some of those albums could* sell for
*I said ‘could’ purposely, I did explain not guaranteed, her mind still remained changed
@Tiggerlion, why are fans of Yes crazy?
Buying framed copies of Relayer.
(They are no more crazy than any other fans, of course.)
You should see the rubes deciding whether to buy £2000 Roger Dean prints in the lobby of Yes concerts these days. Lovely decorative style and best of its kind, but, er, “art”? Might as well have Stephen Pearsons’s “the wings of love”. Or a Yes concert programme costing £30. Just say “no”.