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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Tom Wiggins

Apple at 50: how Cupertino changed the audio world time and again – and not always for the better

IPod with Steve Jobs on stage.

1976 was a big year for music. Joy Division formed after seeing the Sex Pistols play at Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall; Phil Collins took over vocal duties in Genesis after the departure of Peter Gabriel; and the Eagles released Hotel California.

But it was the formation of Apple in the north of said state that might just have had the biggest impact of the lot.

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