When Albums Ruled the World | BBC.HD.ZigCOM.mp4

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These days, an album is a click on a mouse, its tracks soon dispersed into the ether by playlists and the shuffle button.

Back then, an album still meant getting a thick slab of unwieldy vinyl stuffed inside an intriguing cardboard sleeve.

The album was the package: two sides of music listened to in order, while digesting the sleeve notes.

Back then the vinyl album let artists think about music in new ways, and the albums they recorded – from The Beatles' Sgt Pepper’s to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon not only turned popular music into an art form, but sold by the truck load.

So that was our ‘golden age’ – we’re not talking about albums in general, but the original album - the vinyl album.

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