On top of a brown Formica cabinet in a Portakabin office in an anonymous warehouse on the outskirts of London sits the most privileged record player in pop-music history.
<>The Garrard direct-drive turntable was the first outside a recording studio ever to play the Beatles' Revolver and Sgt Pepper; the first to experience Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon; it was the first to be challenged by the Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen; it was there at the birth of dance music; and it's still going st</>
Published on July 21, 2009 06:31