Many records – selling at their highest rate for decades – are PVC, which is to be banned in the EU
For an event dedicated to the vinyl revival, the setting couldn’t be more appropriate. In the mid-70s David Bowie sat in the same wood panelled room of Berlin’s Meistersaal, recording Low and Heroes.
“He’d look out on to the nearby GDR watchtower and the joke was that the border guards would be listening in on the recordings,” Eduard Meyer, Bowie’s sound engineer recalls.
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