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The Best of Chuck Berry Audio Cassette

The Best of Chuck Berry audio cassette

When you’ve been pronounced the King of Rock & Roll by Jerry Lee Lewis’s mother, it’s a pretty fair conclusion that that is precisely what you are. Only Chuck Berry had that honour, and he was acknowledged as a key inspiration by some of music’s most historically important exponents, from John Lennon (who called him “the greatest rock & roll poet”) to Little Richard. Continue reading The Best of Chuck Berry Audio Cassette

Early 1980s Sony Audio Cassettes

Sony audio cassettes

An evocative lineup indeed, featuring six as-new blank audio cassettes of the early 1980s. The group includes five different Sony variants, and gives a great insight into the colour mixes that buyers would be seeing on the shelves of the audio stores between 1981 and 1983. Continue reading Early 1980s Sony Audio Cassettes

Champion Jack Dupree – “New Orleans Barrelhouse Boogie” Audio Cassette

Champion Jack Dupree New Orleans Barrelhouse Boogie

If you trace back the history of rock ‘n’ roll to its very roots, you’ll probably end up in 1949, with Fats Domino’s The Fat Man. Surely, you’re thinking, that has to be the first rock ‘n’ roll track. It pre-dates Rocket 88, and is frequently cited as the recording that started all. But… Continue reading Champion Jack Dupree – “New Orleans Barrelhouse Boogie” Audio Cassette