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Bring Back the Single

Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 22 October 1968

A STORY of virtue rewarded: Polydor, tiny in Britain compared with EMI or Decca, sold more LPs in the third quarter of 1968 than any other record company. This is no accident, and is not merely an item for the trade press; for better and for worse, it points to the creative future of the new music in Britain.

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