That album was a one-off special deal, as it was considered a TV soundtrack and outside the terms of his Warner Brothers contract at the time. Anchor gained the rights for outside North America due to Cooper being […]

As I understand it, Anchor was the UK subsidiary of ABC Records, and its releases were mostly UK acts. The label appeared around 1973, when the ABC imprint also finally appeared over here – prior to that ABC […]

To raise funds, the committee of a golf club decided to hold an auction of their collection of golfing equipment of late television actors. They realised that John Thaw’s collection of metal irons would never make […]

The Miles Davis album “Bitches Brew” contains a track entitled John McLaughlin.
The John McLaughlin “Electric Dreams” contains a track entitled Miles Davis.
The Miles Davis album “Bitches Brew” …. (repeat to fade)

As I understand it, Victor in the US and HMV in the UK both issued slide auto-changers in 1927. Multi-disc sets, such as recordings of Gilbert & Sullivan’s operettas, were issued in manual and slide couplings soon […]

The idea dates back to the 1920s, when multiple 78s were issued in a cardboard album (hence the title). Multiple record sets could be issued in three different couplings by the likes of His Master’s Voice: manual, […]

To lengthen the recordings’ copyright life – it not issued they go out of copyright in Europe at the end of the year, allowing anyone to put them out.

No tellers at my polling station either – possibly for the first time ever during a General Election. It was a bit chaotic, though, with two separate rooms for voting based upon council ward, with an usher guiding […]

Used to visit a pub that had a tendency to play these drippy acoustic covers in the background – one night they played nothing else. I stopped going in because of this, and the huge increase in beer prices. May […]

Unfortunately, aptX is not lossless. It has a bitrate of 576 kbps, sufficient for transfer of some lossless audio, but not all.

He’s just re-hashed his cover for Weller’s Stanley Road, hasn’t he?

Any Old Rubbish, based on most of the material posted here!

There’s a picture of Chad Stuart of Chad & Jeremy pictured with what looks like a Gibson EDS-1275 in 1966 on their Wikipedia page.

The first double-necked guitar I saw was on the front cover of a Bill Haley & The Comets album my dad owned – a compilation of their singles which he bought in the early 1970s.

Here goes:

Sweet Sweet Bulbs – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
The Twins – Max Richter
Ruby Baby – The Drifters
Hungry Hash House – Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
Who Dat? – The Jury

You also mention Word, Excel and Powerpoint. This PC won’t come with Microsoft Office – it’ll be an extra charge, unless you already have a subscription that allows installation on more than one devices. There […]

I suspect it’s somewhat slow, as the only Celeron processors I can find were single-core models. It’s also running Windows 8.1, which is no longer receiving mainstream support from Microsoft, which may mean it’s […]

He’s essentially just reviewing his own LP collection, isn’t he? Broken down on a year by year basis. The odd new revelation here and there, but nothing really special.

SSDs are remarkably cheap these days – a 120GB model can be picked up for under £20, and a 240GB one for under £30. These are interchangeable with laptop hard drives, so may require the use of an additional m […]

Purchased. I remember Hepworth reading excerpts from this book as part of ‘The Essay’ slot on Radio 3 last year – the opening chapter seems very familiar.