Happy Birthday - Compact Disc

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August 17th 1982 the first compact disc was produced in a Philips factory in Hannover, Germany. The first disc produced contained Strauss' Alpine Symphony and the first disc that had popular music had The Visitors by ABBA.

While CD production commenced in August 1982, the format wasn't formally brought to market until November, and then only in Japan. US and European music lovers had to wait until March 1983 for the first discs specifically tailored for them.

The development of the CD stretches back to 1979 when Sony and Philips established an engineering team to create a disc capable of stopring music in digital form. According to Philips, the original design spec called for a 11.5cm-diameter disc capable of holding an hour's music, but this was later extended to 12cm and 74m minutes - sufficient to accomodate the whole of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Some writers claim this was driven by Sony co-founder Akio Morita, in order to ensure his favourite symphony could be stored on a single disc.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I didn't relies it was today!!!!! :-D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COMPACT DISC!!!!

(that sounded so weird but funny).

woohoo!

Happy Birthday! :D Without you, all my music would be lost. :)

Happy birthday CD. Thanks for giving the MTV generation children such as myself easy access to music.

happy birhtday cd.

i still recommend vinyl or 8track or a bandrecorder with the big tapes.

but the cd is kinda cool

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b><font color="#FF1493">The Fairy King wrote: [/QUOTENAME]The first disc produced contained Strauss' Alpine Symphony[/QUOTE]

For good order: that's RICHARD Strauss, the one who actually composed innovative music, and had to suffer the handicap of sharing a surname with a bunch of waltz-fanatics.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b><font color = "crimson"> ThomasQuinn wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b><font color="#FF1493">The Fairy King wrote: [/QUOTENAME]The first disc produced contained Strauss' Alpine Symphony[/QUOTE]

For good order: that's RICHARD Strauss, the one who actually composed innovative music, and had to suffer the handicap of sharing a surname with a bunch of waltz-fanatics.[/QUOTE]

I love those 'waltz-fanatics', and their polkas and their marches. What a great family that was. Also sprach Gratzi.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=gray>Gratzi wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b><font color = "crimson"> ThomasQuinn wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b><font color="#FF1493">The Fairy King wrote: [/QUOTENAME]The first disc produced contained Strauss' Alpine Symphony[/QUOTE]

For good order: that's RICHARD Strauss, the one who actually composed innovative music, and had to suffer the handicap of sharing a surname with a bunch of waltz-fanatics.[/QUOTE]

I love those 'waltz-fanatics', and their polkas and their marches. What a great family that was. Also sprach Gratzi.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, but THAT was Richard again. Great symphonic poem, by the way!

^ Ja, I happen to know that. Nontheless, it is indeed a wonderful piece of work.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=gray>Gratzi wrote: [/QUOTENAME]^ Ja, I happen to know that. Nontheless, it is indeed a wonderful piece of work.[/QUOTE]

The ouverture worked really well with Kubrick's "2001", don't you think?

Well, Kubrick's Odyssey basically broght it to the masses' attention.

Yes, but I meant that it really fit the scene well.

Of course it did; and still does :P! It is now a classic. But at the moment I'm going through a strong Strauss (the Austrian family ) phase. For two bloody years I've been looking for Vergnügungszug. Polka schnell, op. 281; but I can't find it anywhere... ;___;. As for dear old Richard, I may start listening to his other compositions as soon as possible.

And Happy Birthday, CD! :-) ( two days late! what a shame!)