Eddy's Good News: The best vinyl's around and a surprise member in the royal family!

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27 Sep 2022, 09:23

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!Be sure to listen each day between 10am and 1pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's most recent stories below:

Tuesday 27th September 2022

If you’re anyone from Adele to The Rolling Stones, you don’t get your records pressed in London, New York or Los Angeles, you go to a little town in Czechoslovakia. 

Say hello to Loděnice, and the company that has sustained it, “Gramofonové Závody,” which produces  an astonishing 60% of the world’s vinyl records, and the vinyl presses have have stayed hot since 1951 despite the coming and going of communism, the bust up of Czechoslovakia, the existential threat of CDs and digital streaming, and a worldwide pandemic.

In the 90s when most people bought CDs it was only punk, metal bands and specialist dance music like Jungle and techno that kept vinyl alive, but thanks to people becoming increasingly interested in vinyl, if only as an antidote to our increasingly digital world - to have an hold something beautiful, something sacred, with artwork and sleeve notes - now vinyl sales are at a millennial high point, GZ, as they’re called now, pressed 56.5 million records last year and they’re hoping to double that this year! It’s a good job because you need a lot of heat to press vinyl,(160°C) all day long, and that is costing a fortune right now. They’re an amazing example of how to keep going in business no matter what comes your way and that if you stick to your guns, success comes!

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

Charming and royal news pupdate from here in the UK as a dog parent finds her beloved little doggo is related to one of the Queen’s corgis!

Say hello to Nadia Smith and to her very handsome Cardigan Bay corgi, Wilbur. (Cardigans are the ones with tails, Pembrokeshires have their tails docked and look more like lovely loaves of bread)

Nadia, who is 28, bought Wilbur in April 2021 and had no idea of its royal connection until she saw that Queen Elizabeth’s last boy corgi was called Muick and in that moment realised that Wilbur came from the same litter!

“We loved corgis because of The Queen” says Nadia, “When we went to get Wilbur, we picked up and cuddled the other puppy too”. We held the Queen’s actual corgi—and we own his brother!” 

When they realised their beloved loaf had a royal brother they wrote to the Queen to let her know Wilbur was doing well and got a letter of thanks back from Her Majesty’s Page Of the Backstairs.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org