Like "Picasso at the Lapin Agile"

"Picasso at the Lapin Agile"

illustration by Sarah Paolucci

Wander through my vinyl LP garden. It's a garden sixty years in the making. It's kind of like the brilliant stage play by Steve Martin, "Picasso at the Lapin Agile"; incongruous personages meet up with each other in my vinyl garden.

Madonna lunches with Bela Bartok

Bela Bartok

photographer unknown

Elvis shakes it for Frederica von Stade. Ella visits Blue Oyster Cult from time to time and Alice Cooper has been blessed by Soeur Sourire (The Singing Nun).

Joan Baez winks at Johnny Rotten and Benny Goodman has a cool pad in Jazz Alley as well as a sumptuous apartment on Classical Blvd.

Both Woodie Guthrie and Sade listen to Marcel Marceau (yes, I have a recording of him TALKING).

John Steinbeck reads from his novels to
Julie Andrews who jumps with joy!

The Sound of Music

photo of Sound of Music album cover by Styrous®

Judy Collins has a cozy spot she goes to when meeting with John Cage (they affectionately call each other JC). Lotte Lenya finds great delight in the antics of the Stones. Mahatma Gandhi discusses the world and its woes with Pink Floyd.

  Pink Floyd's Pulse album cover

photo of Pulse album cover by Styrous®

And Albert Einstein shows
 David Essex how to Rock On.

Albert Einstein

Associated Press -

photographer unknown

Willie Nelson . . . 

Willie Nelson

 photo by Larry Philpot

. . . Maynard Furguson . . . 

Maynard Furguson

photographer unknown

. . . The Residents . . .

The Residents
 in concert at the Berkeley Art Museum 
photo by Styrous®






. . . Sonny Terry, Canned Heat,

Leopold Stakowski . . . 

 Leopold Stakowski

 photographer unknown

. . . Big Black, Lead Belly . . .

Lead Belly
photographer unknown



. . .  Porter Wagoner, Frédéric Chopin, Yello . . .

 
Yello
photo by Francesca Fiovanelli






. . . Divine and Leontyne Price
all rub elbows together.

 Leontyne Price
photo by Louis Melancon

The wonders and achievements of the men and women who have given us so much beautiful music/sounds/words mingle together like one huge happy family in my collection. It is like a dream to wander from one to the other at my discretion. To choose what I want to hear when I want to hear it. It's ecstatic pleasure to read the liner notes and see where performers mingle/collide with each other, usually with brilliant success, sometimes stunning disaster. But they live with each other and give pleasure in ways far beyond description.

My 20,000 vinyl LP collection is beyond listening enjoyment or pleasure; it transcends money and fortune. It is a Garden in Paradise.

And Paradise is for sale.

Interested? Contact me.

For more info, see:
20,000 vinyl LPs (intro): Doris Day

and 20,000 Vinyl LPs 6: Categories

Paradise

by Jan Brueghel the Younger (c. 1620)

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Pink Floyd ~ The Division Bell LP

The blue vinyl Division Bell LP

photo by Styrous®

I started the Vinyl LP series because I have over 20,000 albums I am selling; each blog entry is about an album from my collection. Inquire for more information.

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This is a follow up to the blog article I did: 

1,000,000 CDs 1: Pink Floyd ~ The Division Bell CD).

I just could not ignore the vinyl version of the album.

LPs 8 and this article demonstrate the advantage LPs had over CDs as far as packaging goes. The size of a record album compared to a CD made it a thing to be taken more seriously. The design and thinking that went in to designing LP albums mostly ended with the advent of the CD. What a loss. There are a few exceptions, The Division Bell CD one of them. The packaging with it's blue glass bell shows the extremes one has to go to to match what was once done in the vinyl record format.

I have all the details for the music, performers, etc. in the previous Pink Floyd's Division Bell article, so I'm just putting images in this one as they speak for themselves.

One bit of trivia, the name Pink Floyd was a combination of the names of two great bluesmen, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. (The old joke went that the band could have ended up as Anderson Council – until a tribute band took the name.)

Enjoy, Styrous®

(click on any image to see slideshow)

The Division Bell gatefold

Photography: Tony May, Rubert Truman 

and Stephen Piotrowski

Cover Design: Storm Thorgerson


Sculptures by Aden Hynes and John Robertson 

from drawings by Keith Breeden

Graphics: Peter Curzon, with Ian Wright


Illustrations by John Whitely and Sally Norris

photo of The Division Bell gatefold by Styrous®

The Division Bell gatefold  interior

 photo of The Division Bell gatefold interior by Styrous®

The Division Bell front cover

Photography: Tony May, Rubert Truman 

and Stephen Piotrowski

photo of The Division Bell cover by Styrous®

The Division Bell back cover

Photography: Tony May, Rubert Truman 

and Stephen Piotrowski

 photo of The Division Bell back cover by Styrous®

The Division Bell interor (right)

Photography: Tony May, Rubert Truman 

and Stephen Piotrowski

 photo of The Division Bell interior by Styrous®

The Division Bell interor (left)

 Graphics: Peter Curzon, with Ian Wright


Illustrations by John Whitely and Sally Norris

  photo of The Division Bell interior by Styrous®

The Division Bell record sleeve front

  photo by Styrous®

The Division Bell record sleeve back

  photo by Styrous®

Division Bell blue vinyl record

photo by Styrous®

Division Bell blue vinyl record kite side

photo by Styrous®

Division Bell blue vinyl record Bear side

photo by Styrous®

Credits

• Arranged By [Orchestra], Technician [Orchestrations] – Michael Kamen
• Artwork [Graphics] – Ian Wright (4), Peter Curzon
• Artwork [Sculptures] – Aden Hynes, John Robertson
• Backing Vocals – Carol Kenyon, Durga McBroom, Jackie Sheridan, Rebecca Leigh-White, Sam Brown
• Bass – Guy Pratt
• Design [Cover] – Storm Thorgerson
• Drums, Percussion – Nick Mason
• Guitar – Tim Renwick
• Illustration – John Whitely, Sally Norris
• Keyboards, Synthesizer, Programmed By – Jon Carin
• Keyboards, Vocals – Richard Wright
• Lyrics By – Anthony Moore (tracks: A6), David Gilmour (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B1 to B5), Nick Laird-Clowes (tracks: A3, A6, B1), Polly Sampson* (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B1, B3 to B5)
• Mastered By – Doug Sax, James Guthrie
• Mixed By – Chris Thomas
• Mixed By, Producer, Guitar, Vocals, Bass, Keyboards, Programmed By – David Gilmour
• Music By – David Gilmour, Richard Wright
• Percussion, Programmed By – Gary Wallis
• Photography By – Rupert Truman, Stephen Piotrowski, Tony May (4)
• Producer, Keyboards, Percussion – Bob Ezrin
• Recorded By [Orchestra] – Stephen McLaughlin
• Recorded By, Engineer – Andrew Jackson
• Technician [Drums] – Clive Brooks
• Technician [Orchestrations] – Edward Shearmur
• Tenor Saxophone – Dick Parry
• Written-By – Bob Ezrin (tracks: B1), David Gilmour (tracks: A1 to A5, B1 to B5), Richard Wright (tracks: A1, A2, A4, A6, B3)

Notes

With thanks to: Polly Samson, Nick Laird-Clowes, Douglas Adams, Anthony Moore, Stephen Hawking

Release Information: Limited edition on blue vinyl. This version of the album is shorter than the CD version, as the following songs have been edited in length to allow the album to fit on an LP: Poles Apart, Marooned, Wearing the Inside Out, Coming Back to Life, Lost for Words, and High Hopes.

Description: Gatefold cover.
Front Cover: Two faces facing each other. Title. Photo taken at dawn with the lights on (UK version has daytime photo on the cover)
Back Cover: Two faces facing each other. Song listing. Bar code.
Inside Cover: Various pictures. Two faces facing each other.
Spine: Title. Catalog number.
Inner Sleeve: Art background with lyrics and credits.
Vinyl Color: Blue.
Labels: Columbia picture labels.
Text around the bottom edge of label starts at 8 o'clock and says:

C 64200/AL 64200/© 1994 Pink Floyd Music (1987) Ltd. under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment Inc./P 1994 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Only this color blue (no other kind of blue or any other colors) is genuine.

A more limited black vinyl was also released with the same information as above, but with a slighty different matrix number in the run-out groove.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 0 7464-64200-1 0
• Matrix / Runout (Side A Run-Out Groove): PAL 64200-1B
• Matrix / Runout (Side B Run-Out Groove): PBL 64200-1B

The entire collection is for sale. Interested? Contact me.

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