long-playing

Instead of nostalgia, perhaps it was uncanny foresight that led some people to keep their obsolete long-playing records all these years.

Pick any one of Queen's long-playing blossoms, and you'll sniff more flowery, fruity scents than you'll get from most stinky boxed sets.

It would be much appreciated, therefore, if the defenders of the EU could change their long-playing record.

1876 - The first gorilla arrived in Britain1937 - Lawn tennis at Wimbledon was televised for the first time1948 - The first successfully-produced long-playing (microgroove) records were unveiled by Dr Peter Goldmark of Columbia Records1970 - Tony Jacklin became the first British golfer to win the US Open for 50 years.

Yet anyone with an ear for hooks can hear the hits, and Cowboy has 'em--potentially more than any long-playing Erasure record since the duo's "Chains of Love" heyday, years before electronic music took on its current status as the savior designed to deliver a sagging music industry from generic grunge.

"Like microelectronics, microdynamics could lead to products as advanced beyond present ones as a compact disk is beyond a long-playing record, and as fundamentally different," states the report.

In which war was the battle of Marston Quiz of the Day ANSWERS: 1 The Small Faces; 2 220; 3 The English Civil War; 4 The Mormon Church; 5 Chromium; 6 Christopher Marlowe; 7 William Hague; 8 Sink or Swim; 9 Douglas Jardine; 10 The long-playing record.

1951: Deutch Grammophon launched the first 33rpm long-playing record.

1931: Long-playing records (33 rpm) were demonstrated in New York by RCA-Victor, but the venture failed because of the high price of the players, and the first real microgroove records did not appear until 1948.