Ain’t nothing but a jazz thing here at eil Towers with some top jazz rare vinyl and CDs coming through the doors over the past week, here’s a few to whet your jazz whistle, see them all here. If you want to keep up to date with all the latest […]
……we’ve just bought a huge collection of vintage picture discs on 7″, 12″ and LP – although picture discs can be traced back to the 1920s, they became more of a promotional tool as the seventies arrived, and were pressed in small quantities and some were released to the markets […]
…top notch rarities at eil Towers this week include an incredible, vintage Led Zeppelin poster, a handwritten Morrissey set list written by the great man himself, a highly sought after Beatles Xmas Fan Club LP, an always collectable Vertigo Swirl from Dr Strangely Strange, more vintage poster bizniss with the […]
We’ve just had a new Led Zeppelin collection just in, including the mega-rare first press of the first LP with that all-important turquoise lettering, Japanese pressings, imports, original memorabilia and more, watch this short clip and to see them all (and more) click here Looking for new and back catalogue […]
Here at eil.com we realise not everyone’s pockets are sooo deep they can stump up the readies for that uber-collectable slab of vinyl, CD boxset, vintage memorabilia etc etc….with that in mind we’ve put together this new weekly ‘Top 3’ of some of the more affordable collectables that pass through […]
Dick’s Picks: Hard-to-find, rousing soul ’45 from UK all-round entertainer Kenny Lynch (yes, Jimmy Tarbuck’s mate!) Kenny Lynch Kenny…where do we start? Lynch grew up in Stepney, East London as one of 13 children; his sister Gladys (stage name Maxine Daniels) was also a jazz singer of some note. After leaving school at […]
…..”it was 50 years ago this week that Sgt. Pepper….”well you get the idea! By way of celebrating here’s our current Top 5 of all things Sgt. Peppers – “a splendid time is guaranteed for all!”, to see more click here You can find more Beatles vinyl, including imports, […]
We’ve had some mega Metallica pieces in the last few days… watch the short video clip or explore them here on our site. eil.com – the world’s best online store for rare, collectable and out of print Vinyl Records, CDs & Music memorabilia since 1987
Another bumper week here at eil Towers with some stone cold killers through the doors including the Ultimate Queen 20CD Gold CD Boxset, a handwritten Morrissey set list written by the great man himself, a 1st press Japanese Soft Machine LP from way back in 1969, a highly sought-after Nimbus […]
From Long Live Vinyl He played 28 times for Scotland and made more than 600 appearances during an illustrious professional career that saw him line up for Everton and Chelsea and play in an FA Cup Final before hanging up his boots to become a TV pundit celebrated for his […]
Originally published by FACT The great electronic albums of the 1970s get plenty of kudos – but what of their predecessors? Casual accounts of the history of electronic music tend to point back to familiar sources: Suicide’s babble’n’hum; Cluster, Klaus Schulze and the rest of the Krautrock squad; the stygian […]
The Rolling Stones’ legend is impossible to dispute. From their earliest days as the most committed – and raucous – young group to come out of the British blues boom of the early 60s, to their bar-setting, hell raising antics in the latter part of the decade, and the early […]
From The Times… Kendrick Lamar, Dusty Springfield, Nick Cave, Blondie: they’re all here, in Culture’s hot list of rock and pop classics… DARK SIDE Blood on the Tracks Bob Dylan (1975) Dylan’s lyrical sophistication and music came together in his best album, a complex account of a relationship going wrong, […]
Written by Pete Paphides For Vinyl Factory From Joni Mitchell and Fleetwood Mac to Oasis and Air, Pete Paphides enters the upside world of the pop B-side. First record? It’s the most standard of questions – one that any respondent, be they pop star or punter, can answer without hesitation. For almost […]
From the Chart Company The Vinyl Festival will make its debut in London this September. If you’re partial to collecting your favourite albums and singles on vinyl, then you’re in luck, as two huge events have been announced for the UK this summer. First up is the UK’s first ever Vinyl […]
From udiscovermusic The celebrations for The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 50th anniversary continue, with auction house Paddle8 hosting an online auction of prized Beatles memorabilia all this week. Other rare items include a show poster from a Pop Festival in Sweden from 1963, where the Fab Four […]
Sixties star Mary Hopkin is to auction off a collection of memorabilia from the height of her fame. Hopkin, 67, from Pontardawe, Neath Port Talbot, shot to fame in 1968 with her number one single, the Paul McCartney-produced Those Were The Days which sold about eight million copies worldwide. She […]
We’ve had a superb Morrissey collection just in, with some rather tasty and unusual items including memorabilia, artwork, promo goodies and more, here’s our current Top 3, to see more Mozza click here Looking for new and back catalogue vinyl, rare pressings and collectable vinyl and CDs? Explore eil.com… the world’s […]
Just in at eil.com are a number of superb, vintage British tour programmes, this little beauty is an ‘Animals’ programme from 1964 where they shared a stage with rock n’ roll pioneer Carl Perkins, The Nashville Teens, a very young Elkie Brooks, also on the bill were the bizarrely named […]
Just in at eil.com are a number of superb, vintage British tour programmes, this little beauty is a ‘Who’ programme from 1966 where they shared a stage with the Spencer Davis Group, Jimmy Cliff and err.. Mike Sarne (he did ‘Come Outside’ which featured a very young Wendy Richards), also […]
Superb short clip of an incredible, vintage 1964 Rolling Stones tour programme – thrill as they prepare to play the dizzy heights of Weston-Super-Mare, Weymouth and Torquay! Learn amazing new facts; did you know that economics student Jagger had ” no idea of economics”, although he’s done alright since no? […]
We are proud to be an official stockist for the 2016 digital editions of these amazing 2007 Russian limited edition 352 page A4 sized books by Yuri Grishin, supplied as a PDF on a branded USB stick. There’s one for each of the Island Record label, Harvest Records, Vertigo Records and […]
To finish off our little series about record collecting we’ve gone back to basics with a bluffers guide on some of the best turntables currently out there. Using ‘What Hi-Fi’s’ guide (and they should know best right?) to the best turntables available in 2015, with prices to suit all pockets. […]
The prospect of enjoying music on tape begs many questions; listeners have answers. By Katie Lauer at MD here Cassette tapes are impractical, and the people who buy and produce them agree. Yet, a community of listeners continue to keep them alive. “It’s ridiculous buying cassettes and having a cassette […]
Here at eil.com we buy more records & CDs than just about anyone else in the world, and have done for almost thirty years, so each month we clear some stock at great sale prices of up to 50% off, to make space for the new. Sale stocks are always […]
An “immersive vinyl experience.” The Vinyl Festival is a new two-day event set to take place at London’s Printworks venue on 23rd and 24th September. Part label market, part tech fair, The Vinyl Festival will allow visitors to browse curated selections from over 100 stalls, covering music and audio gear, […]
Visitors to eil.com at Hollywood House, be that for our regular buying days, or just popping in to collect a purchase will see a revamped and revitalised reception area of Hollywood House. We can’t away from the fact that boxes of records, CDs and more arrive daily and this can […]
From Superdeluxeedition.com… OMD will release a new album, The Punishment Of Luxury, in September. This is their third album since they reformed in 2006 and the thirteenth in total. The 12-track album is being made in a wide array of formats, including limited edition yellow vinyl, a super deluxe book […]
Olé Olé Olé is a new documentary by Paul Dugdale following the Rolling Stones concerts in 2016 across Latin America and their first ever concert staged in Havana, Cuba. Behind the scenes footage, up close and personal moments with the band, this documentary includes seven full length performances from the […]
Long Strange Trip, the forthcoming documentary on the Grateful Dead will get a brief theatrical release in the USA in May before being made available exclusively to Amazon Prime Video in June. While that sounds really interesting, there’s going to be a soundtrack which will mix studio and live recordings, with several […]
…..Chris Sievey of UK group (and arch pranksters) The Freshies released the first computer game single! When played on a Sinclair ZX 81 computer via a record deck the lyrics of the song came on the screen!!! We kid you not, here’s a bit more info….# This is from gizmodo The B-side […]
From the Guardian More and more musicians are throwing their own festivals – is this the future of live performance or a cynical fad? Once, musicians were just workshy, financially illiterate types who were quite happy to turn up to a festival, make their quota of onstage welly bants […]
From the Chart Company Solo records from Agnetha and Frida, plus a Benny & Bjorn classic LP will arrive this July. ABBA fans, you’ll have a new reason to say Thank You For The Music this summer as new coloured vinyl versions of solo albums from ABBA stars have been […]
From the Guardian The no-frills cable show captured 80s and 90s bands at their most bonkers – from Napalm Death’s growling mayhem to New Order calling U2’s singer ‘that bongo guy’. Co-founder Pete Fowler explains why nothing else has come close British music television may be synonymous with one particular […]
We love this (but haven’t quite got the space or the spare cash)… from Mixmag! The light-up dancefloor from the film Saturday Night Fever is going up for auction, giving anyone with enough money the chance to own the iconic piece. With an expected auction value of at least $1 […]
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