Sunday 14 November 2021

Music

 

2014: Carl Michael Bellman (Design Beata Bouch and Gustav Martensson Engraver Lars Sjooblomm)

One of my favourite stamp designs despite knowing nothing about this Swedish composer, musician and poet, Carl Michael Bellman (1740-1795) who also is famous for writing drinking songs.

1983: Music in Sweden

On slightly firmer ground with this FDC. Playing the piano is the composer and conductor Wilhelm Stenhammer, on baritone sax,  -Lars Gulliton, a fiddler in the middle, the composer Karl-Birger  Biomdahl's space opera Aniara and lastly of course ABBA back in the limelight this year with their new album.
1987: 125th Anniversary of the Choral Society

Everyone gets a chance to sing along with this pretty stamp

2020: Queen
Royal Mai's continuing series of pop legends and Queen's first albums.  Queen II was released in 1974 and contained their first Top Ten hit, Seven Seas of Rhye. (Today the picture is more associated with Bohemian Rhapsody but that would not be issued until 1975)  Next is Sheer Heart Attack from 1974 with their breakthrough global hit 'Killer Queen'

Sunday Stamps theme this week is - Music - hear it in your head and See It On A Postcard


5 comments:

Mail Adventures said...

Bellman is a new name for me (and a very musical one!), but you are absolutely right: the design of the stamp is gorgeous.

I have got some of those pop legends stamps from the UK. Although I like the stamps in general, I wonder if it isn't more a commercial than philatelic matter.

Bob Scotney said...

Even I could not fail to recognise Queen!

violet s said...

It looks like a fair bit of drinking was happening within that first stamp!

viridian said...

Did not know that Queen had some stamps! Great!

M said...

Got to love a bit of Queen! Attempted karaoke - Bohemian Rhapsody, of all things! I still have a few of the Queen stamp issue I can use!