The CD is celebrating, LOL, a round anniversary: 40 years ago, on August 17, 1982, the first so-called compact discs were presented by the Polygram label in Hanover. Chopin’s “Waltz”, “An Alpine Symphony” by Strauss and THE VISITORS by ABBA were pressed on it. The first CD player came onto the market in Japan two months later – at a price of the equivalent of 2300 DM.
We recommend this little piece of contemporary history from MUSIKEXPRESS 1988 to anyone who would like to read up on how people imagined the future of listening to music in 1988 Question how we will listen to music in the future. In 2014, for example, ME author André Boße wrote down 10 theses on listening behavior. Feel free to check for yourself what has been confirmed or disproved in the meantime. Here are the 10 theses: