A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved our Lives by David Hepworth

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Purchased this book a number of years ago after seeing it get cited by my friend and music mentor Alex Smith. I picked it up and put it on a stack of things to read but never got it into rotation until I committed to reading books I had on my shelf back in March.

If pressed to pick one area of interest, one true passion or love - it would be music. I don’t know why my attraction to the medium is so strong but its the medium I understand and think about most. My personal library is filled with books about music. So much so that I have gone out of my way to try and read things I wouldn’t normally read the past couple of years. This book was an incredible read because it made me not only appreciate the medium of the Long Playing record - but David Hepworth’s approach to the topic is one that I could easily get rooted in. We got off to a rocky start at the beginning of the book. There’s some proclamations to SGT. PEPPERS being the most important LP ever of all time, that I found a little hard to stomach - but I pressed on and I began to understand how he arrived at that point of view and I can appreciate his argument. The book is a historic look at the LP - beginning with 78 RPM records - all the way thru present day. He provides ground level insights on what it was like in England during the 60s, 70s, and 80s. The insights on important LPs through the years allowed me to revisit numerous albums that I hadn’t really listened to. If you love music and collecting Vinyl - i highly recommend that you give this a read.