This is a brand new Max Champion in What A Racket!" LP Vinyl Record - mint sealed and also an official V-neck T-shirt from Joe Jackson's recent album and US Tour. This was specifically acquired at the Merch table at the Orpheum Theatre down town Los Angeles during the performance of Jackson and his alter ego Max, along with 9 piece orchestra. A very successful tour. Fantastic. This is the price I paid. Shirt is mint, unworn. It is a nice olive green 100% butter soft cotton. Not thick. Perfect weight. Will age very nicely. The only one I have.
What a Racket! features Jackson and a 12-piece orchestra performing eleven songs ostensibly written by the fictional music hall performer Max Champion. Champion's fictional backstory states he was born in 1882 in the East End of London and is believed to be a relative of the music hall composer, singer and comedian Harry Champion. After his death on the Western Front in World War I, Champion's songs "faded into obscurity", but some of his sheet music began to resurface from 2014 and by 2019 there were enough songs for Jackson to "resurrect" by recording the album. In a press release, Jackson commented, "These were wonderful songs in their time, but they're surprisingly modern, too. Sometimes it's almost as if Max is speaking, from his London of the early 20th century, directly to us in the early 21st