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Stamp of the Month: November 2025

Tina Turner

Germany 3.11.2025
American singer Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock) was born on November 26, 1939, in Brownsville, Tennessee. She died on May 24, 2023, in Küsnacht on Lake Zurich.
 
Tina Turner’s singing in the church choir was already noticeable as a child. In 1955, she met musician and talent scout Ike Turner in St. Louis, who initially hired her as a background singer for
his “Kings of Rhythm”. As “Ike and Tina Turner”, the two were among the most impressive live acts for many years. Their international breakthrough came in 1969 when they were booked as the opening act for several Rolling Stones concerts. However, their marriage, which began in 1962, ended in divorce. Starting out as a solo artist proved difficult, as Tina Turner was considered an aging black singer in the music scene, and no one believed in her anymore. Australian producer Roger Davies suggested to record electronic music, which was very popular in England at the time. With the resulting album, “Private Dancer,” Tina Turner made an incredible comeback in 1984. The album sold over 20 million copies, and the song “What’s Love Got to Do with It” won three Grammy Awards. At the age of 45, she returned to the stage and instantly became a global superstar.
In 1988, she broke all previous attendance records when she was cheered by 180,000 fans in Rio de Janeiro. Her studio albums “Break Every Rule” (1986), “Foreign Affair” (1989), “Wildest Dreams” (1996), and “Twenty Four Seven” (1999) also became multi-platinum sellers. In 2008, at the age of 69, Tina Turner embarked on a world tour, after which she announced her retirement from performing. Tina Turner received a total of eight Grammy Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and two World Music Awards. In 1991, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with her ex-husband, and again in 2021 as a solo artist.

Togo 5.7.2019


The video shows Tina Turner performing her hit “The Best” from the album “Foreign Affair” (1989). However, the song is a cover version; the original is by British singer Bonnie Tyler.

Presentation of the Yehudi-Menuhin-Trophy 2025

On September 10, 2025, during a short vacation in Stockholm, Peter Lang met Eva Wilsson, the designer of the most popular music stamp of 2024, to present the Yehudi-Menuhin-Trophy.





What better place than the ABBA Museum to present the trophy to the designer of an ABBA stamp?

The team behind the stamp: Designer Eva Wilsson, Stina Olofsdotter-Miltell, Head of Philately at PostNord Sweden, Project Manager Barbro Sjöberg, and photographer Per Myrehed.

Yehudi Menuhin Trophy 2025 – Most popular Music Stamp 2024

The winning Stamp: Sweden
designed by Eva Wilsson

On April 6, 1974, the Swedish pop group ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Waterloo.” This success also marked the beginning of ABBA’s international career, which significantly shaped the music market of the 1970s, which had previously been dominated by American and British Bands. The continued impact of ABBAMANIA on the younger generation of that time is demonstrated by the fact that the stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of ABBA’s success was voted the most popular music stamp of 2024. The stamp, issued by Postnord in Sweden on April 6, 2024, receiving 7.33% of the votes from stamp collectors around the world. The stamp was designed by Swedish designer Eva Wilsson, who will be awarded the 2025 Yehudi Menuhin Trophy.
Eva Wilsson grew up in Stockholm. She studied design at the Swedish art school Konstfack and the London College of Printing. She gained professional experience in London (art books and fashion photography) and Amsterdam (visual identity). In 2008, she founded her own label, “Design Eva Wilsson”, and in 2019 opened a gallery for typography and design in Stockholm with rooms for exhibitions, workshops, and evenings with typography and music quizzes. Eva Wilsson teaches history of typography and graphic design and has also worked for the stamp department of the Swedish Post and for Postnord since 2009, for which she has designed more than 100 stamps.

      

This year, stamps from 66 postal administrations were up for selection. Collectors from 46 countries participated in the online voting. The Spanish stamp “The Cellist of Fene”, issued on November 5, 2024, took second place with 6.41 % of the votes. The stamp honours the mural by graffiti artist Sfhir, who won first prize at the Perla Mural Festival in 2023. Third place, with 6.09 % of the votes, went to the Norwegian stamp “Bodø – European Capital of Culture 2024”, designed by photographer and designer Kristin Slotterøy.
 
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Here you can find all candidates for the most popular music stamp 2024
Here you can find all previous winners of the Yehudi Menuhin Trophy

In Memoriam: Ozzy Osbourne

On July 22, 2025, British rock musician “Ozzy” Osbourne died in Jordans, Great Britain, at the age of 76.
 
Ozzy (John Michael) Osbourne was born on December 3, 1948, in Birmingham. After dropping out of school and working several unskilled jobs, he formed a band with Terry Butler, Tony Iommi, and Bill Ward in 1968, which was renamed “Black Sabbath” in 1969. Similar to the bands “Led Zeppelin” and “Deep Purple”, “Black Sabbath” pushed the hard rock of the time into increasingly heavier forms and, since the release of their debut album, has been considered the founders of “heavy metal.” In the 1970s, the band’s heyday, Ozzy Osbourne’s vocals shaped the band’s sound. Due to his drug problems, “Black Sabbath” parted ways with Osbourne in 1979. Osbourne achieved some success as a solo artist in the 1980s
and 1990s and regained popularity in the early 2000s through the MTV reality series “The Osbournes”.
In 1997, “Black Sabbath” reunited and toured several times with different lineups until 2017. The last concert with the original lineup, a benefit concert for a children’s hospice entitled “Back to the Beginning,” took place in Birmingham on July 5, 2025. Seventeen days after the concert, Ozzy Osbourne died at the age of 76.
 

The video features Ozzy Osbourne performing the song “Dreamer,” which he wrote in 2000. Osbourne described the song, which was released as a single from the 2002 studio album “Down to Earth,” as his favorite song.

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Softener For The Ear

Franz Zehenter 

Sound Pollution

Louis Op t’Eynde 

Bandstand

Jean-Pierre Suys 


Le Cid

Louis Op t’Eynde 

Accordions

Jason Dobney 



A Century of Musicians

Yme Woensdregt 

Les Ballets Suédois

Manfred Gorol 

Visit to the Opera

Jörg Kiefer 



St. Cecilia

Yme Woensdregt 

Women Writing Music

Yme Woensdregt 



Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel

Louis Op t’Eynde 

Zaha Hadid and Music

Manfred Gorol 

De Stemvork

Louis Op t’Eynde  




500 Years of the Protestant Hymnal


 
“Therefore the printers do very well to print good hymns diligently and make them agreeable for the people with all kinds of ornamentation, so that they are stimulated to find joy in faith and sing with pleasure.” This is how Martin Luther commented on the new initiative of several printers who began to publish the new hymns of the Reformation in small anthologies from 1524 onwards. …
 
Read more about the history of the Protestant Hymnal