Double Feature!

WHEN ALBUMS RULED THE WORLD
U.K. documentary. An examination of how the long-play vinyl record changed the way artists created music, engineers recorded it and listeners and fans purchased and experienced it. Between the mid-1960s and the late 1970s, the LP album changed recorded music forever.

Musicians were able to escape the confines of the three-minute pop single and express themselves across the expanded canvas of the album. The LP allowed pop music to become an art form, from the jacket artwork, to the ideas and concepts that bound the songs together, to the music itself.

Starting more or less with The Beatles, the documentary discusses Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Yes, The Doors, Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield, Marvin Gaye, and many more. There's also Miles Davis, who realized his only means of reaching a larger audience and expanding his stylistic range was to blend rock and jazz, resulting in the divisive and brilliant Bitches Brew album.

From pop to rock, from country to soul, from jazz to punk, all of music embraced what "the album" could offer. But with the collapse of vinyl sales at the end of the 1970s and the arrival of new technologies, the golden era of the album couldn't last forever. With contributions from Roger Taylor, Ray Manzarek, Noel Gallagher, Guy Garvey, Nile Rodgers, Grace Slick, Mike Oldfield, Slash and others.

Plus this bonus selection...

THE SOUND AND THE STORY 1956
U.S. short film. RCA Victor demonstrates how vinyl records are made using step-by-step examples of the production process. Starting with a live recording being taped, we then see a master being made, duplication of the master, a mold, and duplication of the mold ready for mass production of the latest audio masterpiece.

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