50 years ago this coming Monday, Britain went decimal. Overnight 240 pence to a Pound became 100 - and the dear old 'shilling' disappeared from our lives.
This meant LP records costing £2 2s 11d [or 42/11] suddenly became priced as £2.15 !
I'd been buying records from the cut price Virgin Mail Order company for the previous few months, sending off my 'Postal Order' and receiving a 10-25% discount on record shop prices.
So what was my final Long Playing record purchase in 'old money' ?
Not easy to work this one out, however with a combination of half baked memories, various Virgin Mail Order adverts and the Vertigo Records back catalogue from 1970 I have a best guess hypothesis - it was > Beggars Opera 'Act One' LP ©1970
My favourite band The Nice had broken up early 1970 and Beggars Opera, from Glasgow, came along to rock the classics in their place. The track 'Raymond's Road' is very much in the same vein as "Rondo" by The Nice, though credited to the band members and arranged by organ player Alan Park there are other composers contributing: Bach, Grieg, Rossini, Mozart's and a brief rendition of the "Karelia Suite" by Sibelius… but NOT necessarily in that order... !
This also allows me to introduction to you the YouTube channel: (Beat Club - from German tv) and this unique psychedelic video technique* they seemed pretty keen on using.
I'd been buying records from the cut price Virgin Mail Order company for the previous few months, sending off my 'Postal Order' and receiving a 10-25% discount on record shop prices.
So what was my final Long Playing record purchase in 'old money' ?
Not easy to work this one out, however with a combination of half baked memories, various Virgin Mail Order adverts and the Vertigo Records back catalogue from 1970 I have a best guess hypothesis - it was > Beggars Opera 'Act One' LP ©1970
My favourite band The Nice had broken up early 1970 and Beggars Opera, from Glasgow, came along to rock the classics in their place. The track 'Raymond's Road' is very much in the same vein as "Rondo" by The Nice, though credited to the band members and arranged by organ player Alan Park there are other composers contributing: Bach, Grieg, Rossini, Mozart's and a brief rendition of the "Karelia Suite" by Sibelius… but NOT necessarily in that order... !
This also allows me to introduction to you the YouTube channel: (Beat Club - from German tv) and this unique psychedelic video technique* they seemed pretty keen on using.
[NB: BEWARE YouTube ad break interruptions] >
*If you're a fan of these video techniques, or just want to explore, Beat Club has a veritable who's who of early 70s music - there's Yes - Status Quo - Deep Purple - UFO - Taste - original Fleetwood Mac - Curved Air - Caravan - Colosseum - Black Sabbath - Canned Heat - Byrds - Santana - ELP all to relive.
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