Word: albums
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Months went by, yet Holly's albums continued to sell. Decca rushed out a greatest hits album, which would float on and off the Billboard charts for another seven years. Britain devoured Holly records faster than the record company could produce them. Demo tapes, B-sides, previously unreleased recording sessions - they all shot up the British charts and turned Holly into one of the forefathers of the British Invasion that would strike America five years later. Both John Lennon and George Harrison learned to play guitar in part by listening to Buddy Holly records. The first Rolling Stones' single released...
With musical talent that was both versatile and long-lasting, Newman recorded with Natalie Cole on her 1991 hit album Unforgettable, With Love and, in recent years, with other greats such as Dr. John and B.B. King, who called Newman "one of the greats at his craft...
Aside from an appealing sense of rarity, multiple births carry a nostalgic whiff of the idea of a big, sprawling family at a time when the American nuclear family is largely shrinking. Shows like TLC's Duggar's Big Family Album, on which an Arkansas couple flaunts their 17 (!) children, or the same network's Jon & Kate Plus 8 (more like Jon & Kate Plus 8 Plus The People They're Reportedly Having Affairs With) sell the idea of multiples as special. In the case of Jon and Kate Gosselin, who gave birth to a set of twins...
...sampling omnivores whose songs draw from bygone musical eras - take DJ Shadow, Amon Tobin or Mr Scruff. Enter Retrochine. More than a collection of kitsch remixes, this second release by Schtung Music duo Morton Wilson and producer Ian Widgery follows on from their hugely successful 1930s Shanghai Lounge Divas album, but this time ventures into 1950s and 1960s Hong Kong through the classic musical films of the Shaw Brothers...
...album is sold in a highly desirable hardcover edition, with postcards of the original movie posters and an inlaid film strip. But that's really just a bonus. Fun, edgy and eclectic, Retrochine isn't old Chinese pop with a contemporary twist; it's music for the 21st century...