As I understand it, the shows that Dave C acquired were several reels of film transfers which were discovered in a cupboard at the former Rediffusion building in Kingsway several years after Rediffusion’s […]

Looks Unfamiliar – Tim Worthington and a guest discuss forgotten things from the past – TV shows, music, toys, books, foodstuff and so on.

Ornette Coleman – The Shape Of Jazz To Come

I was once given a book of album artwork that looked like it had been compiled from the author’s own collection, with a few added pre-1965 jazz titles that were so odd they must have all been picked up at the same […]

That Rashaan Roland Kirk album is dreadful – it’s mostly MOR standards, with two versions of each on the album, interspersed with spoken nonsense and other sillyness.

It looks like the Kraftwerk albums have been pulled, as they’re no longer listed.

I installed the Facebook Messenger app on my phone once. When I logged in to the site from a PC the next time, suggested follows included the pages of a couple of really obscure bands whose music happened to have […]

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.