Pinboard #18 (Saturday 6th July 2024)

Gazing into this April July afternoon, I realised it had been over two months since my last pinboard blip. This hastily assembled array of empty singles sleeves comes from the increasingly distant decade I spent working in the BBC Gramophone Library in darkest London during the seventies-eighties.
It features two groups who against all the odds still exist to this day. The top two rows are by the Pretenders and the others are by Orchestral Manoevres In The Dark (OMD). In case they are not legible due to the very low shutter speed, B3 is I Go To Sleep (written by Chrissie Hynde's future husband Ray Davies of the Kinks), C1 is black on black embossed Electricity.

L.
Sunday 7.7.2024 (1346 hr)

Blip #4117 (#3867 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2024 #101/266 + #043/100 Extras
Day #5215 (1292 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3256 (#3096 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Nikon Coolpix P900 (24-2000mm equivalent bridge camera)

Old Forge series
Pinboard series
Artwork series

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Orchestral Manoevres In The Dark - Joan Of Arc (1981)
As I have posted 12 Pretenders songs as LOTD's (mostly not the obvious ones) and only one by OMD (Electricity) I have chosen the latter. Joan of Arc figures in several OMD songs, including the single Maid Of Orleans. That and this both come from the album Architecture & Morality. The statue of her depicted on the single sleeve is said to come from the NT property Cliveden in Buckinghamshire, and at the time could be seen among the trees in the Ilex Grove. Next to it in the blip, Maid Of Orleans features a cover designed by Peter Saville, Carol Wilson and Brett Wickens,  inspired by an original stained-glass design by Anton Wolff.