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^^ Let's leave Electric Rooster, at least until the release date.

^ It's difficult to be sure what happened back in the 1980s because I can't find either of the two albums for sale anywhere as cassettes or vinyl LPs. This would confirm the existence of such releases without any doubt.

However, on the Bandcamp page for the Lucillo & Giada album it says:

"Baro prog-jets first album.

Lucillo & Giada is a concept album, a unique 44-minute suite divided theatrically into 4 scenes, with only one break in the half (as it was a 2 sides vinyl record). Therefore you’d better listen to in CD than in mp3. The physical production offers a continuous listening, easing the navigation with a breakdown in 11 episodes."

That does suggest that a vinyl LP did exist back in the early 80s.

In this piece on the baroprog.it website Alberto Molesini (aka Baro) talks about how he added a cover of "Your Move" by Yes to the beginning of side 2 of a tape he was making of the Lucillo & Giada album as an original gift for his girlfriend Daniela, to celebrate the 500 days anniversary of them being together. It then says in brackets that the song was removed from the official edition, also implying that the album definitely was released at that time in some physical format.

Then in this review by Luca Paoli on Gioco.it says:

"It's a great pleasure for me to tell you about two great albums finally re-edited, revised and updated.

Alberto Molesini in art "Baro" has been active in the Italian progressive scene since the late 1970s with "La Sintesi" band which will contribute to feeding and satisfying, with their concerts, the desire for prog in our country.

In 1980 they released their first album entitled "Lucillo & Giada". A concept, divided into four acts (but in the new CD divided into several tracks for listening convenience) that tells, in a political fiction, the author's teenage experiences.

Three years later the second album "Topic Würlenio" comes out.
A less prog album maybe, more immediate but always of high artistic level.
Two works that move between progressive rock and folk never neglecting the melody.

A double CD has recently been released by Andromeda Relix and distributed by GT Music Distribution, which brings together both works. Alberto Molesini puts his hand into it by adding new ideas and arrangements, leaving the spirit and idea of ​​these two projects intact."

^ That review thus also implies that both these albums were released back in the 1980s.

It's difficult to know for sure whether these albums ever were released back in the 1980s - though my feeling is that they most likely weren't, but they've certainly not been released separately on any physical medium in 2019 - only as individual digital albums, and as a 2CD package containing the two physical albums together.

^ Yes, everything now looks fine to me, Eugene. That's definitely the best that can be done with the info that we have available.