NYC WNEW-FM 102.7 - Elvis Costello - Live at HEARTBREAK 1985 Long Sleeve Large T

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Up for sale today is: New York City's WNEW-FM 102.7 - WHERE ROCK LIVES Live from HEARTBREAK   February 11th – 15th 1985
Size Large - Long Sleeve Tee
(We are also selling a size XL [Extra Large] version of the same shirt)
Arm pit to arm pit: 20”
Collar to bottom of shirt: 30”
Sleeve length (shoulder seam to end of wrist cuff): 23.5”
Condition is as shown, Unused - Never Worn /Never Washed
We recommend that you compare the measurements listed, to the dimensions of a shirt you like the fit of, to see if ours is suitable for you. All of measurements are taken with the garment, face down, flat on a table.
Customer service is a priority for us. We ship every business day with USPS Priority Mail, with INSURANCE, including a delivery confirmation number which you will receive. Your order will be mailed within 3 business days of your payment.
All sales are Final - No Returns  - Contact us with any questions prior to purchase.
About the shirt
:
More than 36 years ago, throughout the workweek of Valentine’s Day, WNEW-FM 102.7 WHEREROCK LIVES’s regular morning deejays, Richard Neer and Lisa Glasberg, did a week-long remote broadcast from the Heartbreak, a club that was in vogue at the time, on Varick Street, in New York City’s Greenwich Village, back in 1985.
Each of those mornings, WNEW’s ‘Breakfast Club’ show attracted as many as 800 listeners per day, to this cafeteria, which served breakfast and lunch by day, and then, turned into a popular dance club at night. Each day, the place was adorned with big pink heart balloons, and more.
The band, the Del Fuegos, were the house band, performing live, for the entire week, playing a few songs every hour (fascinating to hear live music performed so early in the morning) and participated with audience members in ‘Stump The Band’ as well as a radio version of, the Dating Game, in addition to live appearances by Patty Smyth, Joan Jett, and others.
But the best of those days was on February 11, 1985, when the first 50 radio listeners that showed up, received this commemorative, long sleeve t-shirt. You would have had to be on that line, pretty early, in order to get a shirt.
And, if you were an Elvis Costello fan back then, even better, because also, on this day, he showed up and put forth a fierce solo performance of a few of his greatest hits at the time. Cooler than that, he debuted a new song, on this particular morning, a resounding version of The Animal’s, ‘Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood’—broadcast live, on WNEW-FM's breakfast show, which began at 6am. The performance was so good, this one-man-and-his-electric-guitar performance, so astonishingly straightforward, that it cut his future studio album version, to shreds.
So when Columbia Records released Costello’s King of America album on February 21, 1986, that included the studio version of ‘Misunderstood’, they pressed up a 12" promo single of this live Costello ditty, recorded at the Heartbreak, the year before (that still, to this day, is sought out by collectors)—in order to have radio stations play it on air, throughout the country, to help drum up sales for Costello’s new record.