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Your Vinyl AnswerGoldmine's Essential Guide to Record Collecting celebrates some of the finest vinyl ever pressed by music's greatest artists. You'll find the royalty of Rock (Elvis, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones) , the pioneers of Punk (The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones) , Motown's movers and shakers (Berry Gordy, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight) , Jazz kings (Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon) , Disco queens (Donna Summer, Diana Ross, Deniece Williams) , the first couple of Folk (Joan Baez and Bob Dylan) , and a host of others from Psychedelia, Classical and the Eighties. Filled with record art, concert posters and artist profiles, as well as lists and values of the best rarities, 45s, 78s and albums from across the musical spectrum, Goldmine's Essential Guide to Record Colleting isn't the reason you'll love vinyl.



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Dave Thompson

English author Dave Thompson has spent his entire working life writing biographies of other people, but is notoriously reluctant to write one for himself. Unlike the subjects of some of his best known books, he was neither raised by ferrets nor stolen from gypsies. He has never appeared on reality TV (although he did reach the semi finals of a UK pop quiz when he was sixteen) , plays no musical instruments and he can't dance, either. However, he has written well over one hundred books in a career that is almost as old as U2's ... whom he saw in a club when they first moved to London, and memorably described as "okay, but they'll never get any place. " Similar pronouncements published on the future prospects of Simply Red, Pearl Jam and Wang Chung (oh, and Curiosity Killed The Cat as well) probably explain why he has never been anointed a Pop Culture Nostradamus. Although the fact that he was around to pronounce gloomily on them in the first place might determine why he was recently described as "a veteran music journalist. "Raised on rock, powered by punk, and still convinced that "American Pie" was written by Fanny Farmer and is best played with Meatloaf, Thompson lists his five favorite artists as old and obscure; his favorite album is whispered quietly and he would like to see Richard and Linda Thompson's "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight" installed as the go-to song for the sad, sappy ending for every medical drama on TV. Kurt Cobain, Phil Collins, Alice Cooper, Joan Jett, David Bowie, John Travolta, Eric Clapton, Jackson Browne, Bob Marley, Roger Waters and the guy who sang that song in the jelly commercial are numbered among the myriad artists about whom Thompson has written books; he has contributed to the magazines Rolling Stone, Alternative Press, Mojo and Melody Maker; and he makes regular guest appearances on WXPN's Highs in the Seventies show.



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