The Compact Cassette, also commonly
called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply
tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape
recording format for audio recording and playback.
Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch
company Philips, the Compact Cassette was released
in August 1963.
Compact Cassettes come in two forms, either
containing content as a prerecorded cassette
(Musicassette), or as a fully recordable "blank"
cassette.
The original Beatles cassette release of "Sgt.
Peppers" in 1968, through "Abbey Road (1969)",
"Let It Be (August 1970)", and the first release
of most of the other Beatles cassette albums in
September and October, 1970, just months after EMI
opened their new tape duplicating facilities at
Hayes in Middlesex in July, 1970.
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