Tape protest
More than 70 musical stars ranging from Elton John to Dame Margot Fonteyn, and including Cliff Richard, Henry Mancini, and Dr Adrian Boult, have joined a campaign for an increase in the price of blank cassettes. Their names are below newspaper advertisements headed “hometaping is wiping out music." placed by the British Phonographic Industry. A 8.P.1. spokesman accused the Government of “turning a blind eye and a deaf ear” to requests for a levy on blank tapes. He said that people at home taping their friends long-playing records could “signal the end of the music business in this country." — London.
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Press, 30 October 1981, Page 6
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