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| From | Michael Coxe <popville@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Great story: How Britain got its groove back |
| Date | Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:00:57 -0700 |
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Fantastic story with photos of the UK's last major (formerly EMI)
operating vinyl factory.
Link: http://tinyurl.com/n3mczr
Original URL:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1198335/How-Britain-got-groove-back.html
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Battered by CDs, MP3s and internet streaming, you would have expected
vinyl to be long since dead. So why is the west London factory famous
for producing Sgt Pepper, The Dark Side Of The Moon and Tubular Bells
back at the top of the charts again?
On top of a brown Formica cabinet in a Portakabin office in an anonymous
warehouse on the outskirts of London sits the most privileged record
player in pop-music history.
The Garrard direct-drive turntable was the first outside a recording
studio ever to play the Beatles' Revolver and Sgt Pepper; the first to
experience Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon; it was the first to
be challenged by the Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen; it was there at
the birth of dance music; and it's still going strong in the age of
Arctic Monkeys, Animal Collective and Lily Allen.
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