1984, December

Billboard, December 22, 1984, pp. 3 & 83
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1985, March

Billboard, March 2, 1985, p. 86

1991, July

CD Review, July 1991, p. 5
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1992, June 6

Billboard, June 6, 1992, pp. 1 & 76
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1992, June

Back of long box for The B-52's album, Good Stuff (1992) 

1990, April 20

What's with the CD longbox?
By Ron Givens
Published April 20, 1990 in Entertainment Weekly

In honor of Earth Day on April 22, how about a clean thought: The music industry could eliminate more than 18.5 million pounds of trash each year if it only would change the way it packages compact discs. That is, roughly, the same amount of garbage created daily by a population the size of Missouri’s.

Read the rest: http://www.ew.com/article/1990/04/20/whats-cd-longbox

1990, July 8

The CD Long Box: Victim or Villain?
By Patrick Goldstein
Published July 8, 1990 in the Los Angeles Times

Is it time to put the CD long box on the endangered species list? Maybe it's too early to predict the demise of the unpopular--and unwieldy--long box, which has become an industry-wide eco-embarrassment. But long-box opponents are on the offensive:.

Read the rest: http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-08/entertainment/ca-161_1_long-boxes