{"product_id":"a-fabulous-creation","title":"A Fabulous Creation","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe era of the LP began in 1967, with \u003cem\u003e‘Sgt Pepper’\u003c\/em\u003e; The Beatles didn’t just collect together a bunch of songs, they made an album. Henceforth, everybody else wanted to make an album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe end came only fifteen years later, coinciding with the release of Michael Jackson’s \u003cem\u003e‘Thriller’\u003c\/em\u003e. By then the Walkman had taken music out of the home and into the streets and the record business had begun trying to reverse-engineer the creative process in order to make big money.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNobody would play music or listen to it in quite the same way ever again. It was a short but transformative time. Musicians became ‘artists’ and we, the people, patrons of the arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe LP itself had been a mark of sophistication, a measure of wealth, an instrument of education, a poster saying things you dare not say yourself, a means of attracting the opposite sex, and, for many, the single most desirable object in their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of that time; it takes us from recording studios where musicians were doing things that had never been done before to the sparsely furnished apartments where their efforts would be received like visitations from a higher power. This is the story of how LPs saved our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"B66ks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50532266246475,"sku":"2177882","price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/51BSn85IwdL._SY445_SX342__24e90e59_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728118112","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/a-fabulous-creation","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}