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Bear Family history officially begins in 1975. Aside from rare shellac records, the so-called music cassettes, and the early music video tapes, vinyl albums and singles were the only sound carriers available on the global market in the 1970s. Back then, there was no internet, and records from the United States, England, and other countries were difficult to find in Germany, particularly those that weren't mainstream chart-toppers. As a result of his extreme dissatisfaction with the situation, Richard Weize, who describes himself as a crazy collector, established the distribution company and Bear Family. He quickly issued the first family vinyl LPs, which included recordings that had been lost or nearly forgotten.