A Different View with Dave O’Connell

It’s 75 years ago this June that a small seven-inch or twelve-inch piece of black plastic, timed to rotate 45 or 33 revolutions in a minute, changed the world of popular music forever – because of June 21 1958, Columbia Records released the first ever vinyl record.

That means nothing to those born in the download and streaming era, but there was a time when the release of a new single in particular was a spectacular thing – and a time when the weekly charts were announced with........

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