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John Wood: Pioneer of the 'English Sound'

Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 26 June 1976

THOUGH SOUND recording celebrates its centenary next year, it is only in the past ten to 16 years that studio techniques have reached the present levels of sophistication that Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the cylinder phonograph, probably never dreamed of.

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