A small independent / DIY Rock label from the Cambridge area. Heavy Leather may well have been run by Sean T. Wright; he played and sang on all three records that it put out and he co-produced them as well, so at the very least it's a good bet that he was deeply involved with the label. Two of those records came out in 1979. Iron Forge's EP featuring 'Under Attack', 'Beast In The Cage', Angels Fighting Demons' and 'Iron Forge - Cradle To The Grave' was the one which qualified Heavy Leather for a place on this site. Its catalogue number was 999, and its label design was fairly plain - black printing on white, with the label name at the top, the artists' name at the bottom and the other information enclosed in boxes. The other 1979 release was an eponymous album by Hollywood Wires, which was numbered HLR-111. The final Heavy Leather record is said to have been an odd one. Reportedly it consisted of leftover stocks of Sean Wright's self-financed single 'Strange Situation' b/w 'Silent Dreams' which came out in 1978 on Ellie Jay (q.v.) as EJSP-8624 - apparently they had Heavy Leather labels pasted over the originals, and the tracks were credited to International Heroes. Its new catalogue number was HLR-666, and it came out in 1982. All three Heavy Leathers are very rare - which explains the lack of a scan - and are highly collectable.
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