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I had to wait until 1990 until they releases the rights back to me to
use the data myself. In the mean time I started seriously collecting singles
data. I bought myself a PC and stored the rock Record data on to floppies
for safe keeping (hard disks were still several hundred pounds for a 20mb
disk) I had one disk on the 1512 Amstrad that I bought.
My family at different time all keyed a few of the lists of singles that
I had collected. Beano's the record shop in Croydon contacted me and turned
over a massive collection of box files that they had collected over the
years.. It had around 50,000 singles with all the details that I needed.
I finally finished adding data up to 1989 and published the book Single
file in 1990. Just 2000 were printed and they took several years to sell
out.
Not a world beater but it steady seller most by word of mouth I am still
asked for copies of this book, But I only have copies in my office and
they are not for sale. Most of the data saved from single File was on
the RockBase CD-ROM and now of course it is on my own CD-ROM RockRom
The cover drawings were done by Liam Wheatley
Typesetting by Terry Hounsome using typefit software and typefit .Wimborne
to output the pages on film. Printed in England by Butler & tanner
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