7 Apr 2020

Album openers for the ages with Simon Sweetman

From Afternoons, 2:17 pm on 7 April 2020

How do you get an album started and how has that process changed? Albums as a medium have survived the changes in medium from vinyl through to digital. Music critic Simon Sweetman joins Anna to dig into why and to play some of his picks for the best album opener ever written. 

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones, 1964

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones, 1964 Photo: supplied

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