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Tuesday, 18 April 2017

Record Collectors

Back in my schooldays I spent quite a bit of time hanging around in record shops and I remember that at one stage, as the number of record labels was increasing, one trick they used to draw attention to their artistes was to produce little booklets showing off all their latest recordings.  I couldn't afford many records but I could collect these free booklets.  I have a vivid recollection of my excitement at the time when I came across a catalogue produced by Island Records - this was around 1975 so I would have been mid-teens with raging hormones.  The tiny image of the cover of Robert Palmer's album Pressure Drop kind of leapt out at me!  I remember carefully cutting it out of the catalogue and pasting it into a scrapbook I clandestinely kept for such treasures.  When I say tiny image I do mean tiny - from memory it would have been little more than a centimetre square.  Just saw the image again on the internet (rather larger) and it brought the memory back.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Help me! I had a suit like that. Great memory.
Old Tom