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Every Record Tells A Story, a music blog written by Steve Carr. I have written for Classic Rock, The Guardian and Record Collector Magazine. Appearances on BBC4 documentary & Radio 4. Every Record Tells A Story is my blog
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• Hear The Spirit Of Talk Talk’s Lockdown Charity Recordings

  By Every Record Tells A Story on May 23, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  We are now 61 days into lockdown, which, for context is still less than how long a series of Big Brother lasts. Life feels a bit like Big Brother, mind you, except you can’t be evicted and go outside, unless… Read More ›

• I’ll Be Alright Without You: An Appreciation.

  By Every Record Tells A Story on April 17, 2020 • ( 4 )

  

  Journey. Known in the UK almost exclusively for “Don’t Stop Believin’” – a song about a girl and a boy from a place – South Detroit – that weirdly doesn’t exist. A song recorded in 1981 that didn’t make the… Read More ›

• Lockdown Playlists: #1: A Doris Troy Special

  By Every Record Tells A Story on April 15, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  As we enter the fifth week of confinement in the Great Coronavirus Lockdown of 2020, social pressures come to bear. Neighbourhood net curtains twitch suspiciously should anyone leave their house. Such is the fear instilled by those Moral Guardians lurking… Read More ›

• Asylums: One Band’s Story Of Coping With Coronavirus Lock-Down

  By Every Record Tells A Story on April 12, 2020 • ( 4 )

  

  What has been the impact of the Covid-19 lock-down on musicians? Coronavirus has taken away loved ones, jobs, incomes, stretched medical resources, and prevented people seeing people they care about in person. For other, more fortunate people, the worst impact… Read More ›

• Your Guide To Selling Vinyl On eBay, and More About The Discogs Median Price Myth

  By Every Record Tells A Story on April 1, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  Part 3 of a real-life test to see whether you can make decent money from selling vinyl. (Here’s part 1) Ah, eBay. Perhaps only Sergio Aguero, as he scored with 93:20 on the clock to win Manchester City’s first league… Read More ›

• The Discogs “Median Price” Myth

  By Every Record Tells A Story on March 27, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  Are records really worth the “Median price” on the world’s biggest record selling platform: Discogs? Based purely on the stories they tell, most record collectors sit firmly in the world’s five or so leading experts in the field. We all… Read More ›

• Can You Make Decent Money From Selling Vinyl Records Online? A Challenge…

  By Every Record Tells A Story on March 22, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  It’s now difficult even to imagine, but before the world locked down and self-isolated and you could still meet up with other people (ah, remember those halcyon days?), priorities went beyond ensuring we had enough toilet roll and pasta. We… Read More ›

• Five Music Books To Self-Isolate Yourself With…

  By Every Record Tells A Story on March 18, 2020 • ( 12 )

  

  You have stocked up, having flung a greedy arm against the nose of a grasping pensioner at the supermarket to get that final roll of toilet paper. You have enough tinned carrots and potatoes to last several months despite never… Read More ›

• Warped record? Here’s how to get it fixed!

  By Every Record Tells A Story on March 13, 2020 • ( 6 )

  

  Picture the scene. You find a rare record you really like, which is inexplicably low-priced and as yet undiscovered. And then you find out why. It’s warped. One of the most difficult problems in the record collecting world to fix…. Read More ›

• Hard Times To Good Times: How Nile Rodgers and Chic Won Their Stripes

  By Every Record Tells A Story on March 4, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  In 2020, we appreciate musical legends like Luther Vandross, Nile Rodgers and Roberta Flack. The internet, along with time and perspective, has allowed us to recognise and understand the impact of so many artists that might, at some points in… Read More ›

• The Oldest Teenagers In Town: Ash Celebrate 25 Years

  By Every Record Tells A Story on February 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In which we discover how Ash went from being a twelve year old Iron Maiden tribute act to world domination, well, almost.

• 2019: Cats, Grime and Lil Nas X: The Year In Music

  By Every Record Tells A Story on January 9, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  2019 was a great year in music, perhaps the greatest since 2018, which, if we all remember was probably up there with 2017. Here’s a round up: First some sad news: Spandau Ballet split up in 2019, which will come… Read More ›

• 2019’s Albums and Songs of the Year

  By Every Record Tells A Story on December 20, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  While mixtapes generally went out of fashion with Blind Date, the launch of Channel 4 and, well, the cassette, (does this mean mixtapes will come back into fashion soon? A lot of the albums below were released on cassette), the… Read More ›

• New Evidence Reveals The Place Where John First Met Paul Is Not Where You Think It Is…

  By Every Record Tells A Story on November 2, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  It’s a great story. The Woolton Village church fete, on 6th July 1957 is where John’s band The Quarry Men are playing on the back of a truck. Ivan Vaughan introduces his schoolfriend Paul McCartney to his friend and band… Read More ›

• Jon Savage Dreams of The Seventies in New Compilation

  By Every Record Tells A Story on October 29, 2019 • ( 3 )

  

  Ah, the swinging sixties. If you can remember them, you weren’t there. If you can’t remember them, you may not have been born yet, and thus weren’t there either. So no-one was there. And yet, there they are, the swinging… Read More ›