Some of the author's favorite CDs, bought in the 1990s My collection exploded - it needed its own room.
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Once a month I went on a "foray" in Cologne, and when I came home with my bulging backpack full of new releases, there were still two to four packages in front of the door. The record companies, many of which were based in Cologne at the time, were very generous with promotional CDs. It took on almost absurd proportions when I changed careers and became a music editor. Records and turntables collected dust and ended up in the basement. Next to my record shelf, a CD shelf sprang up and quickly grew, spreading like weeds through the living room. I bought jazz and classical music, and more and more pop, rock, soul and funk. I spent horrendous sums on new Pink Floyd and Prince CDs, and on The Beatles' White Album - the most important record of my life to this day. My favorite records had become so crackly that I was eager to enjoy this music without noise for a change. Over the years, CD players and CDs became more affordable, record stores had to rearrange as music fans started to trade in their vinyl collections for CDs - just like me.
The author traded in her crackly White Album vinyl for a CD version They multiplied like weeds
And this success came despite the fact that nobody knew how long the data on the discs would last. And the price wasn't cheap: A CD cost 30-40 German marks (about €15-20), more than twice as much as a long-playing record. In 1984, 3 million CDs were sold in Germany alone in 1989, the figure was 54 million. Both companies had worked together on the development and were soon able to sit back and relax, because the CD business was going through the roof. Champagne for all!Ī short time later, Sony and Philipps launched the first freely available CD players on the market for around €1,200 - unaffordable for many people at the time. Perhaps it was also a recording of Richard Strauss' "An Alpine Symphony," conducted by Herbert von Karajan, who had outed himself as a big fan of the CD from the very beginning, describing it as "a miracle." Another legend says it was waltzes by Chopin that were pressed onto the first CDs. The first industrially produced discs rolled off the production line on August 17, 1982, and legend has it that the ABBA album "The Visitors" was burned on them. In 1981, the CD was presented at the Berlin Radio Exhibition.
Finally, it was agreed that the playing time of a CD should be long enough to fit one of the world's most famous classical works - Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Wilhelm Furtwängler's 74-minute version. The compact disc had been around for some time there was just a long argument about how much music should be pressed onto it. Sony's introduction of the CD transformed the way people listened to music From Beethoven to ABBA
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