Lp

Seventy years ago something important happened in music history: the first LP, or long-playing vinyl record, was introduced.

At the time, the LP was a new kind of record that let people listen to longer pieces of music.

The LP changed the way people listened to music.

Columbia Records first introduced the LP in 1948.

Before the LP, you could only get 3 minutes or so onto one side of a record and now because you had a narrower groove and a slower speed, you could get up to 20 minutes, which meant that you could get a whole package of songs together on one record.

Last year, the biggest selling LP in Britain was Ed Sheeran’s “Divide” album.

The song A New England first appeared on Billy Bragg's 1983 debut LP.

An entire generation of Americans has never enjoyed the experience of slipping an LP out of its sleeve, centering the record on the spindle, and carefully dropping the needle on a favorite cut.

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