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Monday, 5 May 2014

Vinyl Feature: Placido Domingo - The Best of Domingo

The Best of Domingo by opera sensation Placido Domingo is a kind of "Greatest Hits" album and contains a number of very well known operatic pieces for the male tenor. This vinyl record was produced by Deutsche Grammophon in West Germany and released in 1982.

This copy, which I purchased from the Red Cross charity store in Landskrona, still has the original insert with all the lyrics and the vinyl record itself is in near mint condition. Not bad for a 10 kr. price tag!

Vintage Advertisement - Garrard SL 95 Synchro-Lab Automatic Transcription Turntable - 1967

Vinyl Feature: Julio Iglesias - 1100 Bel Air Place

1100 Bel Air Place was Julio Iglesias' first (mainly) English album and it was instrumental in giving him a
breakthrough into predominantly English speaking markets.

The album was released in February of 1984 and contained three hit singles, "To All the Girls I've Loved Before", "All of You" and "The Air That I Breathe".

Vintage Advertisement - Belt, rim, or direct drive? - Dual Turntable - 70's

Saturday, 19 April 2014

Very creative Record Store Day posters for 2014!

I really love the creativity being displayed this year to advertise Record Store Day! Here are a bunch of my favourite posters:

Vinyl Feature: Madonna - True Blue

True Blue was Madonna's third studio album and was released on June 30th 1986 by Sire Records. It reached a record breaking number one in 28 countries around the world and lingered for 34 weeks at the top of the European Top 100 Albums chart, the longest of any other album ever. It was the biggest selling album of the 1980s by a female artist and is still one of the best-selling albums of all time with more than 25 million copies sold.

All in all a great success!

Wednesday, 16 April 2014

Vintage Advertisement - Audio-Technica Mister Disc AT770 - 1980's

Sunday, 13 April 2014

Vintage Advertisement - K-TEL Disc-O-Matic - 1970's

Vinyl Feature: The Eagles - Hotel California

The iconic Hotel California was the fifth studio album by The Eagles and was released on the 8th of December 1976 under the Asylum Records label.

This album was the The Eagles best selling studio album with over 32 million copies sold worldwide, and it contained three major hit singles. The album was also ranked at 37 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.