In 50s Soviet Union, western records such as Rock Around the Clock and Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy were banned. But intrepid music lovers found a way to defy the authorities by making bootleg pressings on discarded x-rays. Pete Paphides reports

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vinyls were scarce in the soviet union due to restrictions on many music genres, including jazz and rock & roll. because of these restrictions, soviet bootleggers took used x-ray films and recorded forbidden music on them. they called them ribs, bones, jazz on ribs, or bone music. using discarded x-rays from hospitals and archives, people would trim them into circles, place a hole in the center, and imprint music onto them. - #bonemusic #sovietunion #jazzonribs #musichistory #vinyl