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17 September - 45th anniversary of the release of the first music album by the vintage popular music group, Duran Duran which, despite its popularity, has little or no significance in British music history - 8 stamps (£14.40), 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps (£7.20) , 2 Prestige booklets (one standard edition costing £26.25 and a’limited edition’ sold for £49.99 - both have the same contents - 2 panes including the stamps from the basic set, a pane of the miniature sheet and a pane of King Charles III definitives, 2 x 50p and 2 x £1) (code M26L MPIL), 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing 10 self-adhesive stamps costing £19.20 and 2 ‘Fan sheets’ each containing 4 identical stamps and costing £10 each. Designed with no apparent effort involved by Royal Mail Group and lithographed by Cartor with the basic set perforated 14. Rating:- 0.
Duran Duran were based in Birmingham so they do qualify as a British Musical Great band
ReplyDeleteAs a citizen of Birmingham myself I am pleased to see the band commemorated & I quite liked some of their music but I do not see the band as being in the first rank of ‘British musical greats’.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see that Andy Taylor hasn't been entirely airbrushed from history, even though the issue is virtually an advertorial for the current foursome.
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