direct to your inboxSales of vinyl LPs boomed in 2020 as music lovers sought solace in records on lockdown.
Here, Manchester Evening News chief reporter Neal Keeling pens a personal take on the phenomenon.Walking onto the second floor of HMV in Manchester's Arndale rekindled memories of finding solace when I was a teenager - and broke.I could have been back in the 1970s in my Midlands hometown, at school, or in Leeds at the Polytechnic, in 1979-81, as an impoverished undergraduate.During both eras, when I had no money, I could spend half an hour for free flicking through row after row of meticulously arranged albums.In those days HMV was notoriously expensive - or maybe I was forever devoid of dosh.But gazing at the cover of the first Roxy.
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