60 Mind-Blowing Facts About Music in 60 Minutes: 2017 Edition

Published: Dec. 24, 2017, 7:37 p.m.

b'One of my great accomplishments of the year was the construction of a new home office\\u2026after 12 years working on this program in a converted bedroom, I built a full-feature workspace in the basement\\u2026\\n\\nOh, it\\u2019s lovely\\u2026for the first time since I started doing this program in 1993, all my stuff is in one place\\u2026all the computers, all the CD\\u2019s and vinyl and books and magazines are all together\\u2026it\\u2019s a marvelously efficient workspace\\u2026\\n\\nThis, however, was not an easy project\\u2026renovations being what they are, it took a full ten weeks longer than projected\\u2026permits, trades, materials\\u2014the usual problems\\u2026and then there was the matter of all the stuff I had scattered about the house\\u2026\\n\\nI feel terrible for Matt and Elisha\\u2026they were a couple of interns who had to haul thousands of books\\u2014most of them hardcover\\u2014out of storage and down into the basement where they had to be sorted by topic, alphabetized and neatly put on the shelves\\u2026mat had the horrible duty of filing hundreds of CD\\u2019s that I had neglected for a couple of years\\u2026\\n\\nAnd then there were dozens of bankers\\u2019 boxes, many filled with forgotten research notes and newspaper clippings\\u2026which brings me to this: collectively, me and the interns uncovered a lot of material that has never been used on an ongoing history program\\u2026it would be a shame to let all that knowledge go to waste, wouldn\\u2019t it?...\\n\\nSo here we go\\u2026this is third annual office cleanout\\u2026it\\u2019s another edition of 60 mind-blowing facts about music in 60 minutes\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'