As a songwriter, Billy Joel had hit upon something resonant by avoiding viewing the subject of love as a songwriter, landing a hit for Columbia Records.

It’s a Saturday night at Grandmaster Recorders in Hollywood, and Australian co-owner Grant Smillie is working the floor.

The Beatles were kings of vinyl records, cassette tapes ... Harrison composition to be released as an A-side single. Frank Sinatra famously dubbed it “the greatest love song ever written”.

Now, customers will find the vinyl record store Friends of Sound ... inspired bar was playing jazzy tunes by Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra at a peaceful 70 dB early in the evening.

Gabel said he played at Mechanics Hall when he was a freshman in high school and returned there in 2010 for the Hall's Brown ...

including their Grammy-winning reggae album “44/876” in 2018 and on Shaggy's 2022 album “Com Fly Wid Mi,” where Sting encouraged Shaggy to depart from his trademark “toasting” on reggae/dancehall hits ...

“He had a great gauge on taste and what’s appropriate for each situation,” he said of the Thriller producer’s ability to bring records ... a big band to Frank Sinatra and Count Basie ...

There’s an energy with this record that we haven’t felt in a long ... then hearing that lovely noise as the needle goes onto the vinyl and then the music starts. There’s something religious ...