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Vinyl Curiosities — Summer Beach Read ’22

Vinyl: The Art of Making Records by Mike Evans (2015) provides the launching point for this summer’s beach bonanza of offbeat and occasionally useful music history trivia — lavishly illustrated with streaming audio and hyperlinks for maximum multimedia impact. Italicized text comes directly from this book. Birth of Recorded Sound

July 30, 2022 No Comments

"Accidents"

Thunderclap Newman’s Rush Follow-Up

I was pleased – and surprised – to see a special section devoted to single releases in the Rolling Stone Record Review, originally published 1971. The review of “rush” follow-up to UK #1 hit — 1969’s “Something in the Air” by Thunderclap Newman — caught my eye, since The Who‘s

December 24, 2014 No Comments