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When the first long-playing record was introduced by Columbia Records at a press conference in New York’s Waldorf Astoria in 1948, it was considered primarily as a boon for selling clas*ical music, whose long form had been ill-suited to the 78rpm format – the first ever long-player was a recording of a Mendelssohn concerto. However, it wasn’t long before more popular artists saw the … As an uninteresting youth, stalking arounda provincial art college, wondering what I was doing, I spent an inordinate amount of time pondering pretension (30-odd years later and I seem to be doing the same thing). Pretension is the “j’accuse” one throws out at people, who you suspect might know more than you but who you also suspect may know a lot less than you. In my small te*nage world, … The story of Badfinger is a cautionary tale, one filled with betrayal, despair, missed opportunity, unfulfilled promise, neglect and two suicides. But all of those discomforting elements should not overshadow the music made by the half-English, half-Welsh group. The compilers of two new Badfinger reissues aim to help in that regard. Still known as The Iveys, an early lineup of the band earned … Box sets from Family, Killer, Rainbow Ffolly, Nana Mouskouri, Kathryn Williams, Angelic Upstarts, GBH, Ma Rainey, Johnny Cash, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Tranvision Vamp, Depeche Mode, and Q&As with The Quireboys, Magnum, Tanita Tikaram, James, Zero 7, Ed Harcourt, Virgin Steele and Steve White. For the latest exclusive weekly online news, here, NOT in the magazine (updated weekly, each Thursday), click on When the Bootleg Series of Dylan’s previously unreleased back pages made its bow in 1991, few could have guessed it would still be going strong 27 years later, or that there was such a wealth of quality music lurking (not languishing) in the vaults. Whereas almost every other “heritage” act you can think of has marketed their embryonic sketches as bonus material on deluxe reissues of …