Portable audio thoughts from 1980(388K AAC+):Portable_audio
This is a random and incomplete rant by pop music critic and magazine editor David Hepworth on the then emergence of the Sony Walkman and portable audio in which he seems to intimate that this may harm popular music.There is some interference at the start. It ends with Tommy Vance musing on Island records introduction of it’s then new 1+1 chrome cassette system in which side 2 of a chrome cassette tape album was left blank (or had the same album again but enabled to allow you to erase side 2) enabling you to tape your own music. As we are now in the era of the iPod and similar digital portable audio, it’s interesting to ponder if Hepworth’s worries were valid.
(AAC+ music files. Plugin(Win) or compatible player required – Songbird (All) VLC(All)-Winamp(Win)-Quicktime and (bizarrely) i-Tunes will play file at half the audio bandwidth and in mono only)
Up the hill backwards 
Bloody hell! Where did you get that from?
Hello- I’ve just been archiving a box of tapes , some are mine and others are things people gave me. Shame it’s not complete as our comments seem to have a resonance with what has actually happened (hope you don’t mind).