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I wish the USPS would do something like this instead of boring us with stamps decorated with bells and reindeers.
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So Diamond Dogs/David Bowie makes it to stamphood!
In the States, with a few rare exceptions like the Man on the Moon commemoratives, you have to be dead for 10 years to end up on a stamp.
Bells and reindeers? You're not trying hard enough. The USPS has recently released stamps featuring:
1. The Simpsons.
2. The work of Ray and Charles Eames
3. Lassie, Dinah Shore and other early TV memories.
Yes, most of the stamps issued by the USPS don't appeal to me, but some do. Start at the USPS store here: http://bit.ly/45MWa1
I remember seeing some really cool black history/civil rights and gospel themed stamps at the post office in the recent past, I so those Eames stamps too, they were sweet.
They're not quite that stuffy! The TV Early Memories and the Simpsons issues are pretty cool!
I haven't collected stamps in years, but I'm DEFINITELY getting some! Do update us British nearer the time, BB :)
The Beatles probably don't feature on this set because a set of Beatles album cover stamps had already been issued a couple of years back.
I wonder how many of the ten albums were actually recorded in Los Angeles?
Royal Mail has a website for all you stamp geeks:
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/stamps/home
My favourite has to be the mythical creatures stamp sheets:
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/stamps/content1?catId=32300676&mediaId=98700760
Well, they were going to use the Beatles "White Album" but it just looked like a blank white sticker, and wouldn't show up on a white envelope.
Hmmm. . . Pink Floyd's "Division Bell" but not one of their better albums?!
I wish they were doing "In The Court of the Crimson King."
Cool! I'll definitely have to pick up a set of the Bowie ones.
@timquinn Ziggy Stardust was recorded at Trident Studios in Soho :)
I came across a site yesterday that is making covers for sketch books from old LP covers - http://www.vinylux.net/Vinylux/Album_Cover_Sketchbooks.html - and is also making fruit-bowls and stuff out of old vinyl records.
@timquinn Why would you wonder that? Are you after information, or trying to make some other point? If you were really concerned you would have quickly found that they were all recorded in the UK:
Parklife - Maison Rouge, Fulham.
Power, Corruption & Lies - Britannia Row Studios, Islington.
Led Zeppelin IV - Basing Street Studios, London. Also worked on at Headley Grange, Island Studios, mixing in LA and London.
Screamadelica - unclear, probably London.
Let it Bleed - Olympic Studios, London.
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - Trident Studios, London.
London Calling - Wessex Studios, London.
Tubular Bells - The Manor, Oxfordshire.
The Division Bell - primarily The Astoria, Hampton Court.
A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Liverpool.
The Division Bell? They go with Pink Floyd, and they choose The Division Bell?
Good idea for stamps, but as the government seem comitted to destroying the postal service,these will probably be for collectors only.
Also: "reindeers"? Tsk Tsk. Stay after class and write it out ten times
Shiny. But the USPS isn't all lameness! Spy the sweet King and Queen of Hearts stamps that I recently bought: http://bit.ly/3PMz8I They're from the Love series. They're good enough to make me okay with buying some one- and two-cent stamps when they hike the rates again.
There's also much to love about a stamp set commemorating Supreme Court Justices. I should think BB could appreciate some Louis Brandeis stamps.
the way that you said that made me a little upset.