Last night in a 'past charts' show, my local radio station played Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love", with a comment like "Atlantic Records released it as a single in the US and Led Zeppelin's manager was livid because Led Zeppelin were an album band".

Thinking back to that era, I virtually never bought singles. Virtually everything was albums and the good music was "underground". Singles were constrained in length and had to be considered 'suitable' for play on the then (in the UK) mostly BBC radio.

The stations playing 'my' kind of music were the Pirate radios, Radio Caroline, Radio Northsea, and to a much lesser extent radio amateurs who used an 'agile' system to avoid being tracked.

Even when I was DJing in the mid 70s to early 80s, most of my media was albums or 12" singles. Just a couple of hundred 7" singles at most.

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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