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Starting in 1967, Time-Life combined its book offerings with music collections (two to five records) and packaged them as a sturdy box set. When record labels were no longer producing vinyl albums in 1990, Time-Life transitioned to CD. In the mid-1990s, Time-Life acquired Heartland Music, with the Heartland Music label then appearing as a brand.
"Classic Rock" was first issued in the winter of 1988, with the first volume in the series titled Classic Rock: 1965.Like most compilation albums, songs by two of the era's most successful groups – The Beatles and The Rolling Stones – were not included due to licensing issues; however, several albums had cover art with drawings of male rock singers resembling The Beatles.
From 1996 to 2002 Time-Life Music issued various 12-track-per-disc compilations which, for the most part, were already included in the first 53 albums. At least one single disc and five 3-disc sets (with set-discs also available individually) were issued reusing artwork from the original series but with "The Rock'n'Roll Era" in a different type ...
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 ...
Sounds of the Seventies was a 40-volume series issued by Time-Life during the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, spotlighting pop music of the 1970s.. Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Sounds of the Seventies" series covered a specific time period, including individual years in some volumes, and different parts of the decade (for instance, the early ...
The Ike & Tina Turner Story: 1960-1975 compiles recordings that documents Ike & Tina Turner's "evolution from a sharp-dressed St. Louis-based revue, to the opening act for the Rolling Stones, to the toast of Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion, to headlining the Soul to Soul 1971 concert in Ghana."
Singers and Songwriters was a 19-volume album series issued by Time-Life in the US, during the early 2000s, spotlighting songs from the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. . There was an identically-named 29 volume series available in the UK and Europe, with different track listings and different, but similar artwo
In 2009 FYE closed over 100 locations [7] and 52 more in 2012. Trans World opened new FYE concept stores in multiple locations (such as the Rockaway Townsquare in Rockaway, New Jersey) in 2016. The new FYE featured a new logo and look, a larger focus on pop-culture related items, an expanded selection of vinyl records and modern turntables ...