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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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• Read An Exclusive Extract From The New Vinyl Handbook

  By Every Record Tells A Story on September 8, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  As the publication date draws ever nearer, an author’s day becomes ever busier. Small callouses appear on the end of fingers ill-used to holding pens for signing books. Additional respect is given to *actual successful* authors who sign cartloads of… Read More ›

• Never Mind The Covid* It’s Record Store Day! (*Actually We Still Need To Mind The Covid)

  By Every Record Tells A Story on August 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  As eagerly anticipated by record collectors globally as the release of the Autumn/Winter Argos catalogue was when we were kids. Or, if you are as old as me (and if you collect records there’s half a chance you will be),… Read More ›

• Every Record Tells A Story: The Vinyl Handbook – New Book Update!

  By Every Record Tells A Story on August 9, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  (And Five Ways To Promote Your New Book On Social Media – A Blogger’s Guide) Well, I must say I have been delighted, nay overwhelmed, by the wonderful reaction to the launch of the book, Every Record Tells A Story:… Read More ›

• Buy The Book Here: Every Record Tells a Story: A Vinyl Handbook

  By Every Record Tells A Story on August 9, 2020 • ( 11 )

  

  For vinyl and music fans everywhere: the debut book from Every Record Tells A Story is here…

• “Lost!”: The Pick of Rock and Pop’s Rare and Unreleased Gems

  By Every Record Tells A Story on August 6, 2020 • ( 5 )

  

  The rock n roll memorabilia market has discovered how to turn old tat into cold hard cash. As Craig Brown’s “One Two Three Four” explains, one of John Lennon’s teeth, given to his housekeeper, sold in 2011 for £19,000. A… Read More ›

• Listen Here: The Best Beatles Cover Versions: Part 3

  By Every Record Tells A Story on July 26, 2020 • ( 4 )

  

  This is the third and final chapter in the “Without The Beatles” series – a chance to hear some of the best Beatles cover versions around while reading the “liner notes” below to give you a little more context around… Read More ›

• Listen Here: The Best Beatles Cover Versions (Part 2)

  By Every Record Tells A Story on July 11, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  Welcome to the “liner notes” to the second of three mixes bringing you the very best Beatles cover versions. You can hear all the tunes mentioned below by playing the embedded Mixcloud player at the top of the page, or… Read More ›

• Listen Here: Over Fifty Of The Best Beatles Cover Versions. Part 1

  By Every Record Tells A Story on July 7, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  You can listen to all the music mentioned in this post by clicking the Mixcloud player above, or (if that isn’t working) you can click on this link and the Mixcloud player will open in a new tab. According to… Read More ›

• Listen Now: Nevermind The Grunge, It’s The Nineties! An Alternative Nineties Rock Mix

  By Every Record Tells A Story on June 28, 2020 • ( 6 )

  

  Damon Albarn: “If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I’m about getting rid of grunge. It’s the same sort of feeling: people should smarten up, be a little bit more energetic. They’re walking around like hippies again –… Read More ›

• Listen Here: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow – Dad Rock in the Eighties.

  By Every Record Tells A Story on June 21, 2020 • ( 11 )

  

  Every Record Tells A Story Presents: A Blog You Can Listen To: Click the Mixcloud player link above to hear the music, and read the liner notes below…. If the link above isn’t showing you can click here to access… Read More ›

• Listen Here: When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth: Dad Rock in the 1970s

  By Every Record Tells A Story on June 16, 2020 • ( 13 )

  

  Every Record Tells A Story presents: A Blog You Can Listen To… You can listen to all the music mentioned in this post via the Mixcloud player above, or if that isn’t working click on this link and the Mixcloud… Read More ›

• 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 • ( 3 )

  

  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 ›