The Bastille Project

Today is the Compact disk’s 25th birthday. The first CD had been produced by Philips on 17th August 1982 using materials coming from Bayer in the Langenhagen Polygram’s factory (near Hanover in Germany).

This first CD manufactured was “The visitors” album from Abba .

In November 1982, in Japan, the first musical CD had been put on sale. Wikipedia explains that (in Japan), “the first album available was a compilation of 16 japanese-made titles from CBS/Sony”. Japan was also the country where the first compact disc player had been marketed (with the Philips CD100).