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The Beatles – The Beatles (the "White Album") (Parlophone UK album, 1968) – Ringo Starr's personal copy (No. 0000001) was sold for $790,000 in December 2015, according to Rolling Stone. This is the highest price ever paid for an album that has been commercially released.
Whether you enjoy hunting for a good vintage find or just discovered some old boxes from your grandparents in the attic, you could have a few treasures on your hands. For You: 6 Little Luxuries To ...
RyanJLane/istockphotoIf you’ve got an old record player sitting in the garage collecting dust, it might be time to take a closer look at it. Vintage record players don’t just serve as ...
John Peel's record collection contains 26,000 LPs, 40,000 singles and 40,000 CDs. [3] Julián Ruiz (born 1950): 623,202 items, mostly vinyl LPs and singles. [4] Phil Swern (born 1948): at least 200,000 vinyl singles, 80,000 vinyl albums, and 300,000 CDs. Swern notes that he may have between six and seven million titles in total, but no ...
The Gramophone Record Library. London: Grafton & Co., 1951. 123 p. N.B.: This book is aimed at sound recordings collections in libraries, but much of the advice may be of some use to the private collector. Petrusich, Amanda. Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records. New York: Scribner, 2014. Rees, Tony.
Some of the best rock, pop, jazz and country albums were released in 1971, including classics by David Bowie, Dolly Parton, Led Zeppelin, and Miles Davis. These albums all turn 50 years old in 2021.
The Japanese rock band Boris (known for their unique LPs; their 2006 album Pink was released on pink vinyl) pressed their 2006 album, Vein, on transparent vinyl with etched artwork on the outer two inches of the record. This causes problems with auto-start phonographs, as the actual grooves of music do not start where the needle is designed to ...
The recording process traditionally requires an investment in studio time and skilled record production labor, and the process can be expensive. [1] In the late 1950s, the cost of producing pop albums ran from $3,000 to $7,000. [2] The average cost of producing an album climbed to $15,000 in the 1960s. [3]