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The inventor of the CD and cassette tapes has passed away ... he and his team had created the world’s first portable tape recorder, an invention which would revolutionize the music industry ...

Adding that he had no memory of writing the song, Richards said he woke up one morning to find that his Philips cassette recorder was at the end of its tape — apparently, he concluded ...

Coolen noted that the cassette recorder helped musicians, too, reminding that Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones woke up one morning to find the essence of the song "Satisfaction" on his tape ...

“The cassette tape was invented out of irritation about the existing tape recorder, it’s that simple,” he later said, according to the Guardian. The novel product was patented in 1963 and ...

I didn’t know at all that I had recorded it, the song only exists thank God to the little Philips cassette recorder. I looked at it in the morning – I knew I had put a new tape in the night ...

“The cassette is history,” he told Time magazine in 2013. “I like when something new comes.” Lou Ottens was fiddling with a reel-to-reel tape recorder one night in the early ...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player ... experience to listen to music on a tape recorder,” said Abdul Hamid Khan.

Modern music audiences are rewinding and hitting play on a cassette tape revival ... and things like heat and recorder malfunctions can cause parts of the cassettes to degrade faster than other ...