The Return of the Durutti Column is the debut album by The Durutti Column. It was originally released in 1980 on Factory Records and the original 2000 LP sleeves were made of sandpaper, assembled by members of Joy Division. The initial 2000 copies included a flexi-disc single with two tracks by Martin Hannett - "First Aspect of the Same Thing" and "Second Aspect of the Same Thing".
The sleeve states: "Thanks also to Gammer for his melody and Rowbotham, Reid and Debord for the marketing concept."...
The Return of the Durutti Column is the debut album by The Durutti Column. It was originally released in 1980 on Factory Records and the original 2000 LP sleeves were made of sandpaper, assembled by members of Joy Division. The initial 2000 copies included a flexi-disc single with two tracks by Martin Hannett - "First Aspect of the Same Thing" and "Second Aspect of the Same Thing".
The sleeve states: "Thanks also to Gammer for his melody and Rowbotham, Reid and Debord for the marketing concept." The melody concerned starts about 3'10" into 'Conduct' and was in fact written by Steve Troth, the sleeve/label note being an honest mistake that was quickly acknowledged by Vini Reilly.
Initially, the sand paper image on the cover had an actual sand paper texture, thus when placed in a shelf it would ruin the print of any record placed next to it. This is believed to be inspired by an original idea for the packaging of Public Image Ltd.'s Metal Box. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
