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.
Our get-together will take place as part of
the International Stamp Fair
from October 23rd to 25th in Ulm.
Visit us at our information booth
Hall 2 / Booth A 30.
On Friday afternoon (October 24th), members of Motivgruppe Musik will enjoy a guided city tour with the Ulm Town Musician. On Saturday morning (October 25th), interested members and visitors can receive an introduction to the music exhibits on display.
and 1990s and regained popularity in the early 2000s through the MTV reality series “The Osbournes”.
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
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.
City and performed in important international concert halls such as the London Palladium and the Olympia in Paris. While Connie Francis’s singles focused almost exclusively on commercialism and followed current trends of the time such as rock ‘n’ roll, twist, and the girl group sound, her albums presented her work in a wide variety of styles, including rhythm and blues, vocal jazz, country music, musical melodies, children’s songs, sacred music, traditional songs from various ethnic groups, as well as film soundtracks and portraits of well-known composers such as Burt Bacharach. With a few brief interruptions, Connie Francis was active on stage until the 2010s. She ended her stage career in 2017 with the publication of her autobiography.
On July 16, 2025, the American pop and hit singer Connie Francis passed away in Broward Health North, Florida, at the age of 87.
Connie Francis (Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero) was born on December 12, 1937, in Newark, New Jersey. As a child, she performed at local festivals and talent shows as a singer and accordion player and was a cast member of the NBC entertainment program “Startime Kids” from 1951 to 1955. After several unsuccessful recording sessions, she achieved a hit in 1958, almost by chance, with the song “Who’s Sorry Now?”, which sold more than a million copies within a few weeks. Through foreign-language cover versions of her own hits, Connie Francis became an international pop music star in the 1960s. In addition to her recordings, she was a sought-after live artist in the showplaces of Las Vegas and New York
There are so many topics and stories hidden in our stamp albums that never come to the public eye …
… because there is too little material to create an exhibit,
… because far too many collectors shy away from the effort of assembling an exhibit or
… because collectors don’t want to accept the strict rules of a jury.
We’ll put an end to that and show, …
… that you can tell a story with just 10 stamps.
… that no great effort is required to do this and
… that you can show what’s in our albums even without rules!
