Just to close the loop on this one…
Bob Egan of PopSpots nailed this one pretty quickly, identifying the location of Michael Putland’s sulky portrait of those fashion-forwaerd fops in Japan circa `81 as being West 57th Street. Conceivably after this photo was taken, the boys may have supped some tea at the Russian Tea Room, perused the aisles at Bergdorf Goodman and held court at the Oak Room over at the Plaza.
In any case, the kids and I were in midtown this morning to see the family accountant, and as such — I couldn’t resist the urge to replicate the shot. Here are my ever-patient kinder giving it their best in roughly the same spot …. 38 years later.
Evidently, later the day, the band did make it over to Central Park...
After a bit of digging, I found this account of their trip here, culminating with a gig at Hurrah's on the Upper West Side.
And here, by suggestion of the great Wayne Baron is the Japan of this era at their best….which I’m kinda digging.
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