Re: Peter, are you 85?

["Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Bruce Lachey wrote:

> > "Albums" are a fairly recent innovation.  People sold only singles in
> > the early days of recorded music, and what albums there were, were
> > generally regarded as collections of singles.  I don't think people
> > really began to seriously think of "albums" as entities unto
> > themselves until, say, the mid-1960s (probably around the time of the
> > Beatles' _Sgt. Pepper_).
>
> I'm not sure if Canadians age differently from humans like dogs do, but
> I'd say 40 years of the album isn't that "recent"!

In the history of art, mere decades are a blink of an eye!  :)

--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
Nothing tells memories from ordinary moments; only afterwards do they
   claim remembrance, on account of their scars. -- Chris Marker, La Jetee

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