Word: lp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choruses of Fortresses Around Your Heart is a true pleasure, even though it sounds like a pastiche of several choruses on the Synchronicity LP...
...disks last year; in recent months, the Polygram complex of classical labels (Deutsche Grammophon, Philips and London) took in about as much money in CD sales in the U.S. as it did from LPs and tapes combined. Superior in almost every respect to conventional records, CDs will send the LP the way of the 78 within the next decade, possibly sooner...
Just one element is missing from this success story: Chess has never been staged. At the moment it exists only as a two-record LP. Following the precedent he and Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber set with Superstar and Evita, Rice has released an "original cast album" of his latest pop opera before there was ever a show. The Chess set thus functions as an out-of-town tryout, a promotional gambit and a thumpingly successful fund raiser--so much so that Rice, Andersson and Ulvaeus will be providing most of the (pounds)1 million capital needed this fall when Chess...
...profit-making ventures, tiny record companies are sometimes as shaky as a needle on a warped LP. Yet music buffs and entrepreneurs are lured into the business by the long-shot chance of spinning gold. "All of them are so excited," says Keith Fields, whose Georgia Record Pressing company manufactures disks for dozens of the small firms. "They're all convinced they can make it." The companies have been helped by an industry boom, which pushed sales up about 10% last year, to an estimated $4.2 billion...
...Jermaine, 28, Marlon, 26, Randy, 21, and Tito, 30-obligingly posed for the press but left the talking to King, who predicted that the act would be "the largest-grossing, largest-netting tour ever." Chances are that King isn't talking through his hair. Michael's Thriller LP had the longest run at the top of the charts this year...