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Look, Mum, my first LP

Look, Mum, my first LP

This selfie somehow struck me as seminal.

It shows the pianist Andre Gugnin in the front window of Universal Music with an LP of his excellent Shostakovich preludes recording on the boutique label Hyperion.

Gugnin is 38. He wasn’t born when the music industry, led by Universal, proclaimed the LP dead and buried – supplanted for all time by the gleaming compact disc. But life has moved on. The CD is being rendered obsolete by round-the-clock streaming. Physical media carriers are so 20th century.

But the LP exudes glamour and romance, evoking a time when a record was a thing of value and beauty. The LP is suddenly…. something.

Oh, how the wheel turns.

Oh, look… here’s another.

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