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Various Artists: Rubaiyat: Elektra's 40th Anniversary

Mat Snow, Q, November 1990

IN 1950 NEW YORKER Jac Holzman started Elektra with $600 of his bar mitzvah money, recording artists in their own homes with a tape machine transported on the back of his scooter.

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