Tag: When Albums Ruled the World
Reviews of three docs on records – the extreme collector in Alan Zweig’s Vinyl (2000), the history of the 7″ record and 12″ LP in the respective BBC docs The Joy of the Single and When Albums Ruled the World.
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An obvious companion piece to the BBC’s The Joy of the Single (2012), When Albums Ruled the World gets into the rock doc genre with this taut, prescient chronology of how the lowly long-playing record managed to offer jazz and soon after rock musicians powerful opportunities to create concept albums rather than a series of short tunes the major record labels could spin-off as roughly 3 mins. singles…
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